The most significant cause of delay for children needing adoption is the length of time taken by court proceedings, a report by Ofsted says.

The first quadriplegic sailor to sail solo across the Atlantic says he was left "shaking with rage" after he was prevented from boarding an Isle of Wight train.

Royal Bank of Canada, one of the country's largest banks, is accused of "multi-hundred million dollar" fraud over derivatives trading by a US regulator.

One-in-five clubs in the Football League are in "poor financial health", according to a survey by administrators Begbies Traynor.

The obesity problem in the US may be much worse than previously thought, according to researchers.

The UK economy has shown a few signs of improvement in the first three months of this year but is still weak, the British Chambers of Commerce says.

France deports two radical Islamists and says it will expel three more in an apparent response to the killings of seven people by an Islamist gunman in Toulouse.

Cases of a parent fleeing with their children to a different country are on the rise, a report suggests.