As Grand Theft Auto Online gears up for launch today, the game's creator Rockstar North hopes its extra servers can cope with the expected flood of players.

Speaking to Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, admitted that he does not know the price of a pint of milk.

An elite private schools leader says parents are made to feel it is morally unacceptable to pay for an education.

The US government has begun a partial shutdown after the two houses of Congress failed to agree a budget. Samira Hussain considers the likely impact on global markets.

Scientists at the University of Southampton have harnessed the power of lightning strikes to charge a mobile phone.

The work and pensions secretary dismissed a claim in a book that the chancellor labelled him as a "bit thick", and told the BBC the pair were good friends.

Comedian and actor Billy Connolly says he has been given the all-clear after surgery for prostate cancer.

Ten "critical" gaps in knowledge about how breast cancer spreads and evades therapy must be addressed, say leading experts.