Tickets for some of the most popular London 2012 events are to be made available for 20,000 people who were mistakenly told they had tickets.

The US backs calls by the Red Cross for a humanitarian ceasefire in Syria to allow aid into the worst affected areas.

People across New Zealand hold memorial services to remember the 185 who died in the earthquake that devastated central Christchurch a year ago.

Four people have been arrested and bailed on suspicion of fraud while they worked at government contractor A4e, Thames Valley Police say.

The number of UK businesses planning to increase their spending on marketing has risen sharply from last year, a survey suggests.

The CBI calls on the government to give a £500m boost to business in the Budget through a series of "targeted and modest" tax cuts.

The founder of shut down file-sharing website Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, is granted bail by a New Zealand court.

More than 1.3 million diabetes patients could be missing out on vital and potentially life-saving health checks, the BBC learns.