Cricket entrepreneur and billionaire businessman Sir Allen Stanford must remain behind bars ahead of his multi-billion dollar fraud trial, a US judge has ruled.Read
Teachers will face five-year check-ups to ensure they are fit to teach and could be banned from the classroom if they are not up to scratch, the Government has announced.Read
A man who stabbed his partner and his best friend after "losing his rag" when he found them having sex on his canal boat has been cleared of their murders.Read
Children's secretary Ed Balls has admitted schools and colleges will have to make savings in order to fund the Government's ambitious new education reforms.Read
The recession-blighted UK economy shrank at its fastest rate for more than 50 years in the first three months of 2009, official figures have shown.Read
House prices rose for the third time in four months during June as the market was boosted by a shortage of properties being put up for sale, figures have shown.Read
Curvy cucumbers and knobbly carrots are to return to supermarket shelves thanks to the abolition of EU rules on the size and shape of 36 types of fruit and veg.Read
The Government has face renewed pressure to re-think its decision to update its Trident nuclear deterrent in the face of growing cost pressures on the defence budget.Read
A Yemenia Air plane going from the Arabian Peninsula country of Yemen to the island nation of Comoros has crashed in the Indian Ocean, a Yemen airport official said.Read
Crucial talks aimed at reaching agreement on cost cutting at British Airways, including thousands of job losses, will come to a head with prospects for a deal looking slim.Read
At least 10 people died and 50 others were killed when a rail carriage filled with liquefied natural gas exploded after a freight train derailed in the middle of a small Italian town.Read
Children's Secretary Ed Balls is to set out the Government's new education reforms, designed to drive up standards and reduce Westminster's control over schools.Read
Crucial talks aimed at reaching agreement on cost cutting at British Airways, including thousands of job losses, will come to a head with prospects for a deal looking slim.Read
Bags of pills and other medicines were seized from Michael Jackson's rented mansion as his personal physician continued to insist that the singer had not taken an overdose.Read
At least six people are dead and 30 injured after a freight train derailed and two cars filled with gas exploded just outside a station in an Italian town.Read
