The UK unemployment rate will rise to almost 9% by the end of 2012, doing "permanent damage to the UK's productive capacity", a think tank says.

Votes are being counted across much of the UK in local elections seen as a crucial mid-term test of David Cameron's coalition government.

Londoners have to wait until Friday night to find out whether Boris Johnson or Ken Livingstone has won the race for City Hall.

Football commentator Garth Crooks reckons UK sports minister Hugh Robertson's threatened boycott of the Euro 2012 games in Ukraine "won't achieve anything".

Weeks of border clashes between Sudan and South Sudan have led to fears that the two nations could end up in all-out war.

Argentina riles Falkland Islanders with a propaganda advert featuring an Argentine Olympic athlete training on the disputed territory.

Families who borrowed too much during the economic boom must share responsibility for the financial crisis, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond says.

One of the more unusual tributes being planned for the Diamond Jubilee is a new portrait of the Queen - but one being made out of cakes.