A commissioner for a body monitoring the London 2012 Olympics resigns over its links with Dow Chemical.

Doctors are being told they can no longer sign contracts that contain gagging orders, in new guidance issued by the medical regulator.

The tax office has conceded that it will have to deal leniently with taxpayers who face fines, owing to a planned strike.

Nick Clegg says he wants the coalition government to go "further and faster" in raising the pay level at which people start paying income tax.

Private security guards employed to forcibly remove people from the UK have used racist language and inappropriate force, says a report by MPs.

Part of a multi-storey building collapses in the centre of Rio de Janeiro, with unconfirmed reports that up to 11 people are dead.

David Cameron warns that the concept of human rights is being "distorted" - and even "discredited" - by controversial decisions in the European Court.

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond sets out the question he intends to ask voters in a referendum on independence.