Two homes are being demolished after an explosion which killed two people at a terraced house in Nottinghamshire, emergency planners say.

Three fraudsters are jailed for making 50,000 fake £1 coins in what police describe as the biggest plot of its kind.

A conman who fleeced more than £170,000 out of women he met on a website for "sugar daddies" is jailed for seven years.

Trevor Bolder, the bassist in David Bowie's legendary 1970s backing band Spiders From Mars, has died from cancer at the age of 62.

The rescue effort after the Oklahoma twister that killed 24 people nears an end, as it emerges the storm was more powerful than thought.

Shares on Wall Street picked up on Tuesday to a new all-time high as investors bet that the US central bank would continue supporting the economy.

The UK tax authority's failure to hit a target of reducing tax credit fraud and error has "cost the taxpayer dear", a committee of MPs says.

Up to 600 Afghan interpreters who worked alongside British troops are set to be given the right to live in the UK, under government plans.