Foreign students are to remain in net migration figures despite pressure from MPs and vice-chancellors, the government says.

Apple is to offer US parents compensation for purchases in app games made by their children without permission.

A court hears a mortuary visit by the mother and father accused of killing their six children in a house fire was "like a circus".

Researchers crack the long-standing problem of how to make stretchy batteries to power a growing range of stretchy electronics.

A "disgraced" barrister who specialises in fraud cases is jailed for three and a half years for failing to pay £600,000 in VAT.

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham says NHS chief executive David Nicholson should remain in post, following the public inquiry into the failings at Stafford Hospital.

Centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani says Italy is in a "dramatic situation" after election results that leave the country in political deadlock.

The European Union orders the UK to return £85m (99.4m euros) for failing to comply with rules on agricultural payments.