The TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, has said 2011 would be a "horrible" year of cuts in jobs and living standards for many.

Fines imposed by the UK city regulator almost tripled during 2010 to £89m, figures compiled by the Financial Times show.

Jobs at a driver hire contractor in County Antrim which had been put into administration have been saved.

Server overloads and a bug in Windows caused the two-day Skype outage, the net phone firm says in its blog.

A fire ravages a 13th-Century Belgian abbey famous for its brewery but the monks escape unhurt and the vats are intact.

Recycling chickens past their best-before dates and selling them on to shops serving black communities is 'racist', a South African politician says.

A review of quangos in 1980 suggested the name should be changed as it was a source of embarrassment to people who worked for them, newly-released files show.

Margaret Thatcher was advised by Harold Macmillan to drop her controversial monetarist economic policies a year after she became prime minister.