Foster carers and armed services families will be exempt from controversial changes to housing benefit, ministers say.

UK house sales hit their highest level in more than two-and-a-half years in February, but the figures do not signal a housing boom, surveyors say.

Five Americans from the Nato-led foreign forces in Afghanistan die in a helicopter crash blamed on a rainstorm, the US says.

The risk of waking up while under the surgeon's knife is extremely small - about one in 15,000 - research reveals.

Friends of jailed former cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce say their experience has been like "being in the stocks," as the pair spend their first day in prison.

The UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating the sale of technology firm Autonomy to Hewlett Packard, according to a filing from HP.

Heavy snow causes problems for a second day, with some schools closed and hundreds of drivers stranded in their cars overnight in southern England.

E-books have been added to the basket of goods used to calculate the UK's rate of inflation, but champagne loses its fizz.