Official figures show drop of 27 per cent compared to this time last year

Glencore Xstrata shares found favour with the City today on the newly formed mining empire’s first morning of trading as a single company.

Forget love and happiness - these multi-tier marvels are reason enough to get hitched this summer.

Research suggests more than a million over 50s will face shortfall when it comes to paying off their interest only mortgage

The tracking device can be worn around patients’ necks, clipped to belts and attached to house keys and features a button which would allow its wearer to speak to a 24-hour call centre

Robin van Helsum duped police and social workers into believing that he was an abandoned child

Despite overwhelming evidence there is still continuing reluctance from politicians to accept just how useless short prison sentences are

BP chief executive Bob Dudley today offered some evidence that his turnaround of the beleaguered oil giant is heading the right way.

A family of common hormone treatments can significantly reduce the risk of breast cancer in women at risk from the disease, research has shown.

Every child in England and Wales will be vaccinated against flu each year to limit the spread of outbreaks, the Government will announce today.

Local “police offices” should be opened in busy shopping centres to encourage more people to report crime and antisocial behaviour, a report argues today.

Thousands of Britain’s most vulnerable elderly people face rising bills and the prospect of forced relocation from struggling care homes, because record numbers of providers are slipping into administration.

Tender tale rises to the challenge

The American economy expanded at a rate of 2.5 per cent in the first three months of the year, according to new figures released today, performing far better than at the end of 2012 but missing expectations as falling government spending proved a drag on growth.