The former Defence Secretary Liam Fox and his friend and unofficial adviser Adam Werritty may be called to give evidence in an ongoing court battle.

France lays claim to a 17th Century painting currently being displayed by a London gallery at an art fair in Paris.

Activity in the UK housing market showed some signs of picking up in October, according to the latest poll of surveyors.

Spain's Repsol announces its largest ever oil discovery in Argentina as it finds 927 million barrels of shale oil.

There is a "good case" for the government's HS2 high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham and beyond, a committee of MPs says.

The NHS in England spent more than £440m last year on painkillers, with the biggest bill in the north.

Hospitals in England are finding it more difficult to discharge vulnerable patients because of a lack of community care, data obtained by the BBC suggests.

An asteroid some 400m across is set to pass by the Earth, on a path closer to us than the Moon - though it poses no danger.