The hotel maid who says she was sexually assaulted by IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is enduring an "extraordinary" trauma, her lawyer says.

A safety review of the UK's nuclear industry is expected to give a broad all-clear to current reactors and future plans.

A verdict of death by misadventure is returned at the inquest of a backpacker who died while river boarding in New Zealand.

Ministers are being accused of seeking "revenge" on the police for foiled attempts to reform pay 18 years ago.

A council says it was horrified to discover a convicted paedophile had downloaded more than 250,000 indecent images on its library computers.

Chairman and founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates says he was strongly behind the company's plan to takeover loss-making firm Skype.

Patients are getting "precious little" from the £7bn NHS electronic care records system in England, a watchdog says.

Five British soldiers killed in an attack by a rogue Afghan policeman in 2009 were there because of a "blood feud" between a police commander and the Taliban, an inquest hears.