Outlook: We are right to take some cheer from the latest run of official statistics. The evidence is mounting that our economy is, albeit very slowly, moving in the right direction.

In recent years, the number of wine drinkers in France has withered like over-ripe grapes on a vine.

Mr Pickles was on the receiving end of a Osborne jibe during the Spending Review speech when the chancellor dubbed him a 'model of lean government'

Greece's standing in the world slipped further today after it became the first developed country to be downgraded to emerging-market status by index provider MSCI.

Microsoft has confirmed the latest edition of its Windows operating system will include a Start button.

The first thing I thought when I saw Coca-Cola’s new advertising campaign – “Share a Coke” – was COLD SORES.

Move by Mark Pedergrast comes in the same week as man tries to sell another variant on eBay for $5m

Stars of the airwaves were rewarded at the Sony Radio Academy Awards. Here is a full list of winners from the annual awards ceremony:

Updated version of operating system will take into account complaints made by users as decision to overhaul the much-maligned operating system has put Bill Gates’s successor under pressure

Fancy laying your head down one last time in a Coca-Cola bottle? Or an aeroplane? You name it you can be buried in it, says Paul Bignell

Berkshire Hathaway stock hits new heights as investors party at the ‘Woodstock of capitalism’

Country-wide building projects believed to represent an end to decades of austerity in North Korea, with the government using the slogan 'no more belt-tightening'

Litter louts are most likely to dump Coca-Cola cans, Cadbury wrappers and Walkers crisp packets, a survey has revealed.