More than £93 billion was wiped from the value of the UK's biggest companies as London's FTSE 100 suffered its biggest fall since Black Monday.

A drunken footballer who was seen "driving like an idiot" before he killed two young boys has been jailed for seven years.

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.

The widow of police chief Michael Todd said she has "forgiven" him after his inquest heard his tangled love life led to his death.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has announced a nationwide assessment of how ethnic minorities are treated by the police as the race row surrounding the Metropolitan force continues.

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.

The senior policewoman who led the operation that ended in Jean Charles de Menezes's death choked back tears as she revealed she thinks about what happened every day.

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

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

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