The UK government repeats its threat to legislate if companies do not voluntarily release customer data to those who ask for it.

The insolvent electrical chain Comet is preparing to close about 30 stores out of 236 by the end of November, the BBC learns.

The creative arts should have a secure and significant place in the curriculum in England, a leading head teacher will argue in a speech on Saturday.

Former Conservative MP for Corby Louise Mensch says Labour's by-election victory in the constituency is not significant for David Cameron's leadership.

A Bosnian-born US citizen is sentenced to life in prison over a New York subway suicide-bomb plot planned to target the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Two people are missing and four people are being treated for serious burns after a fire on Gulf of Mexico oil rig, officials say.

A court in The Hague war overturns the convictions of two Croatian generals accused of war crimes against Serbs during Yugoslavia's break-up in the 1990s.

A court in Jersey finds the former mayor of the Brazilian city Sao Paulo, Paulo Maluf, guilty of stashing stolen public funds in an off-shore account.