UK retail sales fell 1.4% in May, figures show, reversing the rise seen in April when sales were boosted by the royal wedding.

The government is to say for the first time that it plans to link the public sector retirement age to the state pension age, which is due to rise to 66.

Ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn claimed immunity and complained about handcuffs when he was arrested at JFK airport in New York, documents reveal.

The High Court is due to make a ruling on the legality of a London school's blanket ban of the cornrows hairstyle.

A private security company responsible for holding immigration detainees received more than 700 complaints last year, the BBC has learned.

A soldier from the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and another from the Parachute Regiment were both killed on Thursday, the MoD says.

The President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, says the UK is "arrogant" for refusing to negotiate over the sovereignty of the Falklands.

The remains of a permanent settlement which could date back to the Iron Age is uncovered on a remote island