MPs say the UK tax authorities should be doing more to deal with tax avoidance

A buyer pays 13,720 euros for a lock of hair belonging to the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph in an auction in Vienna.

China agrees to buy 60 planes from European firm Airbus, in a deal worth $8bn (£5.2bn) at list prices.

The Metropolitan Police teams that specialise in rape and sex assault cases are to be reorganised after a series of failed investigations.

Hundreds of Bangladeshis are still missing two days after a building collapsed near Dhaka, killing at least 273 people, local officials say.

Researchers revisit measurements to determine the temperature of the Earth's core, finding it to be 6,000C - as hot as the surface of the Sun.

Two men who used Twitter and Facebook to post pictures said to show the killers of James Bulger receive suspended jail sentences.

Teachers need to know that pornography is not necessarily 'all bad' and can sometimes be 'helpful', a group of sex education experts has suggested.