London's FTSE 100 Index is on course for its biggest one-day fall in more than 20 years on another day of turmoil for global stock markets.

A drunken professional footballer has been jailed for seven years for killing two young boys as he drove "like an idiot".

Gordon Brown will be speaking to Angela Merkel amid confusion over the extent of the German chancellor's commitments to protect bank deposits.

Millions of households are unfairly paying over the odds for their energy supply, a report by the industry watchdog found.

Police chief Michael Todd died from exposure after taking a cocktail of drink and drugs as his personal life unravelled, an inquest heard.

A killer who tried to emulate Jack the Ripper has been jailed for life for the murder of two young mothers at the start of what may have become a killing spree.

DIY chain Focus is to cut 750 jobs in the current "difficult economic climate", the company has confirmed.

An investigation into alleged racism in Britain's largest police force is flawed before it has even begun, it has been claimed.

Jean Charles de Menezes was the victim of "terrible and extraordinary circumstances", the senior policewoman in charge of the operation that led to his death told an inquest.

Postal deliveries were threatened with disruption on Monday when hundreds of workers refused to cross picket lines.

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