Our green-fingered correspondent Anna Pavord continues her A-Z of horticultural pests and problems standing between you and your perfect garden

Steelmaker and foundry mould maker Cookson lived up to its new name today when it spurted up more than 9 per cent.

Despite its strong rate of economic growth in recent years, China has been a disappointing place to invest. This can be explained, at least in part, by the dominance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which account for a large proportion of China's stock market indices.

You're eating your 5 a day, you've long since given up the fags and you even manage to get out for a bit of exercise every once in while. Congratulations. These might seem like achievements, but give the myriad other ways you're unwittingly damaging your health, really, why bother?

I’d always worried that perhaps I was a terrible person to find fidelity such a compromise to my natural instincts

Sixth floor of the Scotsman Hotel had to be evacuated after two bodies were discovered by staff

Seven people have died of poisoning after drinking black-market methyl alcohol and 41 others remain in hospital.

Shares in Shell tumbled by 5% today as the FTSE 100 company announced a “clearly disappointing” 60% dive in its profits for the second quarter.

It would have been the Queen’s Speech to end them all. At midday on Friday 4 March 1983, the monarch was due to address the nation to announce that Britain was at war and – due to the “deadly power of abused technology” – a nuclear conflict was at hand.

The bill would make Uruguay the first country to have a government led legal marijuana industry

Delivering Kevin Pietersen back to the brink of full fitness is the latest triumph of England's backroom team, but it should be no surprise – they have the best support staff in the game.

George Osborne's father-in-law continues to court controversy with new remarks

Officers told to justify painful 'mandibular angle' technique using pressure point behind ear

An unexpected boom in the number of jellyfish swarming around our coasts has prompted an unusual warning from the British Red Cross – don’t pee on a jellyfish sting.