The White House rejects a fiscal plan from Republicans in the House of Representatives, just two days before a deadline to raise the US debt limit.

UK detectives probing the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal in 2007 are working through information from nearly 1,000 calls and emails after a fresh appeal on the BBC's Crimewatch.

England's Steven Gerrard says the "haunting" memory of failing to reach Euro 2008 will motivate him against Poland.

Twice as many Britons as previously thought could be carrying the human form of "mad cow" disease, variant CJD

A man is arrested after one man is killed and another is seriously injured in a suspected machete attack in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

A homeless man who admitted the manslaughter of two Big Issue sellers is detained for life with a minimum tariff of 12 years.

Prof Peter Higgs, the joint winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Physics, promises to retire - once he turns 85.

Surrey Police released a transcript of an interview with Jimmy Savile, in which the entertainer repeatedly denies claims of abuse.