England manager Roy Hodgson is set to omit Rio Ferdinand from his squad for Euro 2012 while Kyle Walker misses out through injury.

UK manufacturers want the government to offer more support rather than "empty rhetoric", a new survey by business advisers BDO says.

A 35-carat diamond passed among Europe's royalty for four centuries, the Beau Sancy, sells for twice its reserve at auction in Switzerland.

Scientists begin a month-long experiment in Scottish waters to study the impact of a possible leak from an undersea carbon dioxide storage site.

The number of elderly people in England getting council-funded care has fallen by 11% in the last two years and looks like it will fall further, figures obtained by Labour suggest.

A drug for advanced prostate cancer, which can extend life by more than three months, is likely to be approved for NHS use in England and Wales.

An Afghan detainee who says he was tortured after UK forces transferred him to Afghan authorities wins permission to challenge the legality of his transfer.

Bosnian Serb former General Ratko Mladic goes on trial in The Hague on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including genocide.