The government's new 'work programme' will actually help fewer people than the existing schemes that ministers are scrapping, the BBC learns.

President Obama says he sees "the right signals" in Egypt after Hosni Mubarak's downfall, but says Iran should also allow people to express their grievances.

The World Bank says escalating food prices have pushed 44 million more people into poverty since last June.

The RAF is to almost halve the number of trainee pilots and freeze recruitment because of the defence cuts, the Ministry of Defence says

Local authorities planning to pay employees more than £100,000 will have to seek councillors' approval in a vote, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles says.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says recent opposition protests in Iranian cities are "going nowhere" and vows to punish their organisers.

CBS correspondent Lara Logan is recovering after she was beaten and sexually attacked while reporting on Egypt's protests, the US network says.

A Gloucestershire firm becomes the first company to be convicted under new corporate manslaughter legislation.