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

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

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

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

David Cameron tells MPs the UK government would consider vetoing any extension to the European Union's arms embargo on Syria.

A charity worker is sacked after his bosses saw footage of him wrestling a shark in Australia while he was on sick leave for stress.

Hurricane Fly, ridden by Ruby Walsh, becomes the first horse for 38 years to regain the Champion Hurdle title at Cheltenham.

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.