Germany finds itself 55bn euros richer after discovering an accounting error at Hypo Real Estate, the bank it nationalised in 2009.

Research suggesting pay for the directors of the UK's top businesses rose 50% over the past year receives a robust government response.

An unseasonable snowstorm is approaching the US East Coast, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a winter storm warning.

Some 100 passengers leave plane at Birmingham Airport after refusing to get off for several hours.

A medal for local heroes that was scrapped in 1993 as part of a bid to make the honours system "classless" is to be revived, the prime minister says.

People who fail to pay their fine after they have been convicted for criminal behaviour could lose up to £25 a week in benefits, the government says.

BNP leader Nick Griffin says his party is through its "rocky patch" and is now "on the up again", as members gather for their annual conference.

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is “minded to revoke” the licence of a loans broker which claims to process 50,000 applications a month.