Sports fans will watch an average of 27 hours of coverage of the Olympic Games on TV this summer, research suggests.

Italian police arrest a man in connection to the bombing of a school in Brindisi last month, in which a 16-year-old girl was killed, local media says.

Reserve forces and private contractors will be key to the Army's future, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond is due to say in a speech to military experts.

The way London's cancer patients are treated is changing in a move the NHS hopes will save up to 1,000 lives a year.

Mobile phone giants Vodafone and Telefonica announce plans to create one shared grid in the UK to speed up the roll-out of superfast 4G services.

Chancellor George Osborne tells the BBC that the government "got it wrong" on its proposed changes to taxation on charitable giving in the Budget.

Sellafield's Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant in Cumbria is to close in 2018, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority confirms.

Some 50,000 UK savers with the Bank of Cyprus are closer to receiving protection for their savings under a UK scheme.