About 30 suspected members of Nigeria's Islamist group Boko Haram have been killed in a battle with troops in the north east, the military says.

Mark Bridger is due to appear before magistrates charged with the murder of missing five-year-old April Jones last seen near her home in mid Wales.

Businesses' trust in banks and other financial institutions is falling, according to a survey from the British Chambers of Commerce.

Private sector pensioners, and some savers, could be hit by changes to the way retail prices index (RPI) inflation is calculated, experts say.

Chancellor George Osborne will say he is determined to find £10bn in extra benefit cuts, in his keynote Conservative conference speech.

It may be possible to use a drug to prevent some of the lasting and crippling damage caused by a stroke, according to doctors in the US and Canada.

A teenager has had to have her stomach removed after drinking a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen, police say.

GPs should speed up referrals for X-rays in patients suspected of having bone cancer, experts say.