The government's budget forecast of a return to fiscal health by 2014 hinges on 'unobservable' growth potential says the IFS.

At least 10 people have been killed after Syrian police opened fire on people protesting against the deaths of anti-government demonstrators in Deraa, witnesses say.

Police dog teams are to join the search for Sian O'Callaghan, who vanished after leaving a nightclub in Wiltshire at the weekend.

A woman who died when a bomb exploded at a crowded bus stop in Jerusalem on Wednesday was British, UK officials say.

The Athena Tennis Girl model is re-united with her sexy poster to promote lawn tennis as an art subject.

A chemical in the brain controls sexual preference in mice, according to scientists in China.

Two workers at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are taken to hospital after being exposed to high levels of radiation, say officials.

A man is arrested on suspicion of the kidnap of Sian O'Callaghan, who disappeared after leaving a nightclub in Swindon.