Northern Ireland Assembly members vote in favour of the biggest shake-up of social security benefits for decades.

Householders who react with force when confronted by burglars will escape prosecution, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling tells Tory activists.

US officials say they had no actionable intelligence about last month's attack on their consulate in Libya, on the eve of a congressional hearing.

A Moscow court begins an appeal hearing for three activists from punk band Pussy Riot, jailed for staging an anti-Kremlin protest in a cathedral.

French police have found bomb-making materials during an investigation into radical Islamist suspects arrested at the weekend, a prosecutor says.

Aerospace and defence firms BAE Systems and EADS cancel their planned merger, after talks are thwarted by political deadlock.

NatWest bank has admitted that fraud is behind its decision to suspend a mobile phone application which lets customers withdraw cash without a debit card.

Scientists in the Arctic have launched an urgent investigation into how solar storms can disrupt sat-nav.