After a quick debate, MPs vote not to investigate allegations about what Lord Feldman did or did not say - and his constituents appear to be more suspicious of those behind the stories. ...

General assembly votes to allow congregations to admit gay ministers but only if they specifically elect to do soThe Church of Scotland, the country's largest Protestant church, has narrowly voted to admit gay and lesbian ministers after tr ...

Gulf state paid British arms manufacturers almost £4bn in past four years in face of human rights concernsThe UK has granted arms export licences to Saudi Arabia worth almost £4bn over the past four years despite growing fears abo ...

Fans say they are not downhearted at being relegated from Premier League, promising: 'We'll be back'They like a good party in Wigan, and the small matter of their beloved football team, the Latics, being relegated from the Premier League wa ...

From early missed opportunities to its belated involvement, Britain has never been a contender in the space raceThere were always two British space communities. One consisted of visionaries and hard-headed realists who knew what should be&n ...

John Thornton, the former boss of Goldman Sachs, is resigning as a non-executive director of HSBC before the bank's annual general meeting on Friday, citing his "expanded responsibilities" at other businesses where he has senior roles.... & ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday told Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and other business leaders that he expected their companies to pay their taxes in exchange for benefiting from low tax rates. ...

A review of BBC Online and the Red Button service by the BBC Trust finds audiences are served well but BBC Online has failed to hit its reach target. ...

Real Madrid say Jose Mourinho will leave at the end of the season, clearing his path for a rumoured return to English football. ...

The head of cash-strapped Wandsworth Council pocketed more than A 200,000 of taxpayers' money, making him the highest paid permanent chief executive in London. ...

Fans say they are not downhearted at being relegated from Premier League, promising: 'We'll be back'They like a good party in Wigan, and the small matter of their beloved football team, the Latics, being relegated from the Premier League wa ...

This is a fascinating little example of how the debate of climate change gets very skewed. In fact, the report is more interesting for what it says about that than it is in its intended actual result...     ...

Her fans adore her but Lana Del Rey remains frustratingly enigmatic on her first UK tour, says James Lachno.     ...

The Great Gatsby star Leonardo DiCaprio excited bidders as New York's Christie's and Sotherby's battled it out during the world's richest series of auctions ever.     ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Disney said on Monday it will produce a new "Star Wars" animated series to air on television in the fall 2014, giving fans of the science-fiction franchise fresh stories before the next live-action film hits theaters ...

Critics say President Rousseff's strategy is leading to slow growth and excessive government intervention, but hope the country's pragmatic streak will prevail ...

Bill Edwards (pictured) from Scalby, Scarborough claims he is struggling to find work six months after he shot at a van driven by thief David Taylor from Scarborough, North Yorkshire. ...

Chris Grayling's ill-thought-out plans could devastate confidence in our legal systemIn these straitened times, the legal system is not exempt from the need to find savings, but we all have a duty to achieve that in ways that do not put at ...

Households will get up to £2,300 towards installing expensive green boilers, after ministers doubled the taxpayer-funded subsidies because of poor take-up.     ...

A new reading test for six-year-olds in England will have little or no impact on standards of literacy in primary schools, according to teachers.     ...

A family member carrying out a home DIY job may have caused an explosion which killed two people and left a third in hospital, say police. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Nationwide, Britain's biggest customer-owned financial services group, plans to issue a new form of so-called loss-absorbing debt in order to bolster its capital position. ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian media magnate Alexander Lebedev received unexpected support from a prosecution witness on Monday and told a court that charges laid against him over a televised punch-up were invented by state prosecutors. ...

Settlement talks between Steve Cohen's hedge fund SAC Capital and the government have broken down, according to sources....   read more ...

With news that authorities seized assets of the world's largest bitcoin exchange, traders and other people interested in digital currency are looking nervously at the future. CNBC outlines possible next steps....   read more ...

Critics say President Rousseff's strategy is leading to slow growth and excessive government intervention, but hope the country's pragmatic streak will prevail ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two of the nation's biggest online food delivery businesses said they are merging in a deal that they hope will drive more orders, in more cities, through their platforms. ...

Laudation is napped to score at Nottingham, plus tips for all five race meetings on TuesdayBrighton2.10 Epic Charm 2.40 Daylight 3.10 Wooden King 3.40 Alice's Dancer 4.10 Highland Duke 4.40 Peace In Our Time 5.10 FonterutoliNewcastle2.30 As ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain coach Vicente del Bosque has spoken out in defence of his captain Iker Casillas and confirmed that the Real Madrid goalkeeper will be part of the world and European champions' squad at next month's Confederations Cu ...

(Reuters) - AS Roma and Inter Milan have been fined 50,000 euros after fans chanted racist abuse on the final day of Serie A on Sunday, hours before Fiorentina supporters heckled AC Milan's black striker Mario Balotelli. ...

Roy Hodgson will ask England fans not to sing antagonistic songs during a friendly against the Republic of Ireland. ...

CANNES (Reuters) - A tragic love story between two Palestinians living under Israeli occupation received a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival on Monday and broke new ground as the first film fully funded by the Palestinian cinema ...

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. singer Prince has signed a new deal with Kobalt Music Group to market and distribute his future work without giving up control over his rights, the company said on Monday. ...

The future of Kremlin-sponsored technopark Skolkovo, which hosts the world's leading science and technology companies, is being questioned ...

Plans to allow gay marriage look set to overcome their latest parliamentary hurdle this evening after Labour and the Government signalled they were ready to work together to defeat a backbench bid to wreck the legislation in the House of Co ...

The explosion at the house in Newark yesterday left Leslie Rourke, pictured, dead along with his daughter-in-law Jeanette Rourke, while Mrs Rourke's husband Nick, in his 40s, is fighting for his life in hospital. ...

The search engine's executive chairman attended the Prime Minister's Business Advisory Group for a briefing on a clampdown on global tax dodging. ...

The foreign secretary, William Hague, says on Monday the UK must work to achieve the best of two possible outcomes in the Syrian conflict     ...

The Church of Scotland's ruling General Assembly has voted to allow actively gay men and women to become ministers. ...

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - George Becali, a Romanian MP and owner of the football club Steaua Bucharest, was jailed for three years on Monday for abuse of power, one of only a handful of big names to be convicted in a country trying to show it c ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Divisions within Mexico's main conservative opposition party have erupted into a bitter public dispute that threatens to undermine the reform agenda of President Enrique Pena Nieto. ...

The future of Kremlin-sponsored technopark Skolkovo, which hosts the world's leading science and technology companies, is being questioned ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Nationwide, Britain's biggest customer-owned financial services group, plans to issue a new form of so-called loss-absorbing debt in order to bolster its capital position. ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus could steal the Paris air show with a flypast of its newest passenger jet, the A350, as confidence grows over a maiden flight some four weeks away. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron's flagship gay marriage policy is set to deepen a rift in his own party on Monday with many of his own MPs preparing to defy him in a sign of growing strains on his leadership and his coalitio ...

Land Art in Britain proves quirkier than its American counterpart, finds Mark Hudson.     ...

A review of BBC Online and the Red Button service by the BBC Trust finds audiences are served well but BBC Online has failed to hit its reach target. ...