Sri Lanka warns UK Prime Minister David Cameron not to raise its human rights record as he is set to attend the country's Commonwealth summit.

Councils in England uncovered 107,000 cases of fraud worth a total of £178m last year, a report by the public sector spending watchdog suggests.

Philippine Finance Minister Cesar Purisma tells the BBC that Typhoon Haiyan could cut economic growth by one percentage point next year.

The US does not have a veto over whether to release exchanges between its president and the UK's prime minister in the run-up to the Iraq war, the Cabinet Office says.

Brazil's Supreme Court rules that most of the 25 people convicted in the country's biggest corruption trial should start their prison sentences.

The Obama administration's troubled health insurance website registers barely 27,000 enrolments, as ruffled Democrats head to the White House.

People in the UK are still not making it to the top because of where they come from, Prime Minister David Cameron says.

A teddy bear that is able to monitor the health of the child hugging it has been developed to aid paediatric care.