Chancellor George Osborne cancels a rise in fuel duty that had been scheduled for introduction in September.

Chancellor George Osborne announces a new Help to Buy scheme, aimed at helping people to buy their own homes. He has also launched a mortgage guarantee scheme, to increase mortgage availability.

The government says it will spend an extra £3bn a year to fund infrastructure projects in hope of boosting economic growth.

Two men who were sued by the families of the Omagh bomb victims are found liable of the 1998 atrocity at their civil retrial.

A rat may have caused this week's power outage at Japan's tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, says the company which runs it.

The Voyager-1 probe may be beyond our Sun’s influence, but Nasa will not yet officially describe it as outside the Solar System.

The BBC is facing another strike by its journalists and other staff that could potentially have a significant impact on the corporation's output.

A drink-driver is jailed after running from the scene of a crash, leaving his fiancee who was found dead in the wreckage.