Foreign businessmen with "strong links" to the UK will get extra help to expedite their visa applications under a new Home Office scheme.

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini is right to be optimistic but now has time to ponder their Champions League weaknesses.

A four-year-old who died after being attacked by a pet dog is described by neighbours as a sweet little girl.

Prime Minister David Cameron dismisses Labour leader Ed Miliband's claim that NHS accident and emergency services in England are in "crisis".

England name Michael Carberry and Chris Tremlett in the side for their Ashes warm-up game against Australia A in Hobart.

British Airways' short-haul services have the quietest planes at Heathrow according to the first list of airline noise performance at the airport.

A series of small explosions kill at least one person outside a provincial office of the ruling Communist Party in northern China, state media report.

School dinners have improved but there should be a drive to get more children eating them as the take-up remains stubbornly low, an association of school caterers says.