Twelve people have been shot and injured during a Mother's Day parade in the US city of New Orleans, police say.

Jazz and pop singer Caro Emerald's second album, The Shocking Miss Emerald, shoots to the top of the charts, knocking Rudimental down to number two.

The issue of underweight schoolchildren is being missed because of an "obsession" with tackling obesity, a group of researchers has claimed.

An age cap on accessing loans to set up a company should be removed, says the PM's enterprise adviser Lord Young, in a report into business growth.

The deadline is looming for CVC Capital Partners and other investors to put forward a fresh bid for online betting exchange Betfair.

Tigers Woods secures his fourth win of 2013 with a two-shot victory at The Players Championship at Sawgrass.

Emails reveal the Food Standards Agency planned to test every horse for bute last November but acted only after the crisis began.

Eurozone finance minsters are due to meet in Brussels later to agree bailout payments for Cyprus and Greece, amid worries over Slovenia.