Retirees turning their back on the housing market in the pursuit of ready cash to settle debts are paying the price in accommodation costs, the latest figures suggest.

Selfish people have short-term advantage, but co-operation and communication win out in the long term

Ideal candidate has 'track record of change in a consumer-focussed environment'

Police are investigating the discovery of a woman's body in the University of East Anglia's lake

Mobile companies will use different airwave frequencies to offer 4G and this will impact on their service

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 number of wild royal Bengal tigers in Nepal has increased to 198, a 63.6 per cent rise in five years, a survey of the big cats shows.

But 89-year-old authoritarian leader promises to concede if he is beaten by coalition partner Morgan Tsvangirai

Huge numbers of Sand Martin and Grasshopper Warbler either died or flew on the sunnier climes

Conservationists ask people to report sightings but warn beach-goers not to get too close to some species

There are 109,000 centenarians registered despite a life expectancy of 51

The wolves have controlled the number of elk, which were eating all-important berries

Chemotherapy treatment has boosted the survival rate to 96 per cent