The government is considering issuing a new "super" long-term bond which it hopes will cut the UK's interest payments for years.

Four US financial institutions, including Citigroup, fail stress tests designed to show they could withstand a financial shock.

A UK woman who was given PIP breast implants that went on to rupture has had their £3,700 cost refunded by her credit card provider.

A professional wrestler, a beauty salon owner and a woman who calls herself "the blonde assassin" are among 16 contestants competing in this year's series of The Apprentice.

Detainees in Syria's prisons are routinely and systematically tortured in what amounts to crimes against humanity, says Amnesty International.

Households owed smaller amounts in 2011 than the previous year but faced a "tide" of difficulties in paying back these debts, a report suggests.

Technology will make UK e-borders "genuinely secure, fluid and complete" over the next few years, Immigration Minister Damian Green will say.

David Cameron says he would be moving "quite a lot faster" on the creation of a UK Bill of Rights if he was not in a coalition government.