Portugal is given one more year to reduce its deficit below a key target, after the latest review by international lenders overseeing its bailout.

Ministers are drawing up plans for some senior police officers in England and Wales to be directly recruited from outside the service, Theresa May says.

The US Internal Revenue Service awards $104m (£65m) to a convicted former banker who informed US tax authorities about overseas tax cheats.

A young star surrounded by a planet-forming disc of gas is being pulled towards the huge black hole at the centre of our galaxy, astronomers say.

British people of South Asian, African or African Caribbean descent are significantly more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than their European counterparts, researchers have warned.

The US government says it has made a profit of $15.1bn (£9.4bn) so far on its bailout of insurer AIG, after selling stock in the firm this week.