Newt Gingrich halts his White House campaign, but falls short of a full-throated endorsement for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

A student launches a national experiment to find which noises are the most horrible, as part of a Radio 4 hunt for outstanding amateur scientists.

Third-quarter sales at chocolate maker Thorntons fall on the impact of its store closure programme and difficult trading environment.

The UK Border Force failed to meet its target for processing Heathrow arrivals from outside the European Economic Area 24% of the time in April, BAA says.

A 57-year-old former officer has been arrested by police investigating corrupt payments in relation to the phone-hacking scandal, the Met Police says.

The body in charge of setting MPs' salaries and pensions launches a public consultation on whether MPs are giving taxpayers value for money.

The UK economy will return to growth in the second half of 2012, the CBI says, but it has cut its forecast for the year as a whole.

More than 120 short films offering "snapshots of the UK's cultural, sporting, industrial and political heritage" have been put online.