David Cameron promises to get planning officers "off people's backs" and make it easier for homeowners and businesses to build extensions and boost the economy.

Problems sleeping may be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease if a study in mice also applies to people, US researchers say.

Oscar Pistorius claims his first 2012 Paralympic gold medal as South Africa win the 4x100m in a new world record.

A girl has been found hiding inside a British-registered car in which three bodies were discovered eight hours earlier, French police say.

Save the Children's foreign staff are told to leave Pakistan amid claims, denied by the charity, that the CIA used it as cover in its hunt for Osama Bin Laden.

The OECD predicts the UK economy will contract by 0.7% this year, worse than its earlier forecast of 0.5% growth.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has set out plans for more vocational training in schools as part of broader effort to remodel the British economy.

Theresa May rejects an appeal by the mother of British computer hacker Gary McKinnon to bring forward a decision over extraditing him to the US.