The new owners of Jimmy Savile's former penthouse in Leeds say they are planning to demolish it and build a new apartment in its place.

E-commerce pioneer and government adviser Martha Lane Fox is to join the House of Lords, it is announced.

Prime Minister David Cameron says the government needs to go "further and faster" on cutting the deficit, following the UK's loss of its AAA credit rating.

A group led by millionaire and former space tourist Dennis Tito plans to send a "tested couple" to Mars and back in a privately funded mission.

The Lib Dems reprimand a peer following reports he telephoned and angrily remonstrated with one of the women who had complained about Lord Rennard.

Van Cliburn, the renowned American classical pianist who performed for every US president since Harry Truman, dies aged 78.

BP is accused of disregarding evidence during drilling that the Macondo well was unstable, on the third day of a civil trial over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.