England name Michael Carberry and Chris Tremlett in the side for their Ashes warm-up game against Australia A in Hobart.

18th century paintings of a kangaroo and a dingo by George Stubbs are saved for the nation by a final £1.5m donation, following an export bar in January 2013.

A taskforce has been assembled to locate and catch a terror suspect who escaped from his government minders by disguising himself in a burka.

Foreign businessmen with "strong links" to the UK will get extra help to expedite their visa applications under a new Home Office scheme.

British Airways' short-haul services have the quietest planes at Heathrow according to the first list of airline noise performance at the airport.

Microsoft warns that hackers could exploit a "vulnerability" in its operating system to gain user rights to the affected computers.

Lawyers for the partner of a journalist are due back in court in a legal challenge to his airport detention under anti-terrorism laws.

A BBC investigation has found that thefts of catalytic converters from motor vehicles have more than doubled over the past three years.