The Pensions Regulator plans to ensure higher standards for the running of defined contribution pension schemes.

Tiny hairs in the ear which detect sounds have been regenerated to reverse deafness for the first time, say US researchers in the journal Neuron.

Introducing medication-free spells to cancer treatment may keep patients alive for longer, according to studies in mice with skin cancer.

Low pay is deterring people from becoming councillors, a report by MPs says, but the Conservatives accuse Labour of using the report to raise party funds.

Five men formally charged with the abduction, gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman are due back in a Delhi court.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt urges North Korea to end its self-imposed isolation and allow its citizens to use the internet.

Lib Dem leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg reveals, in the first of his weekly radio phone-ins, that he is yet to wear a "onesie" given to him as a present.

The UK has not excluded providing military assistance to the Syrian opposition, should the conflict worsen, William Hague tells MPs.