Better-than-expected growth in the UK service sector was not enough to stop the FTSE 100 falling.

A former Met Police officer, jailed after selling information to the Sun newspaper, targeted Kate Middleton, Paul Gascoigne and other high-profile figures.

Plans to allow nurseries and childminders in England to look after more children are being dropped, the deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has said.

Stephen Fry reveals he had to be brought back to the UK to be "looked after" after attempting suicide while filming abroad last year.

Growing proof of chemical weapons use by Syrian forces "obliges the international community to act", French President Francois Hollande says.

American author AM Homes beats Hilary Mantel to win the Women's Prize for Fiction with her dark satire May We Be Forgiven.

The UK government is expected to apologise and compensate those tortured during the Kenyan Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s, the BBC understands.

The IMF admits mistakes in handling Greece's first bailout, saying its growth forecasts were too optimistic and a debt restructuring should have been considered earlier.