There are four times as many young carers in the UK than previously officially recognised, figures published by the BBC suggest.

Householders who live in period properties can dramatically reduce their energy bills by closing their curtains or shutters at dusk.

The social networking site Facebook ramps up competition with a modern messaging system to rival old fashioned email.

Manchester United's American owners are to pay off their high interest Payment-in-Kind (PIK) loans, estimated to be worth around £220m.

The partner of murdered Rachel Nickell tells the BBC he will take his claim for compensation from the Met Police to the European Court of Human Rights.

Baroness Newlove, whose husband Garry was murdered in 2007, leads a "call to action" for people to work together to make neighbourhoods safer.

London's Natural History Museum suspends a planned expedition to a remote region of Paraguay after protests that it might disturb one of the world's last uncontacted tribes.

At least 60 people are killed and others trapped as a multi-storey building collapses in a busy Delhi neighbourhood.