Tory leader David Cameron clashes with Gordon Brown over what he claims are secret plans for a VAT "tax bombshell".

Hannah Foster was murdered after her 999 call was judged to be accidental and cut off. But how do police decide if an emergency call is a misdial or a desperate last plea for help?

The UK's Climate Change Bill could cost each family in the UK up to £10,000, warns Conservative MP Peter Lilley.

The US government's decision to bail-out Citigroup, one of the world's biggest banks, was, most probably, based on two main factors: the bank's size and memories of Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy.

The chancellor is to announce in his pre-Budget report he intends to raise the top rate of income tax in the future, the BBC has learned.

Forgotten by many and unheard of by most. Yet the sister-ship of the Titanic is starting to escape from the shadow of the iconic shipwreck.

Internet fraudsters sell complete financial identities for just £80, according to an online safety group.

World powers hope to come up with new action to tackle the global financial crisis when they meet for a summit in Washington at the weekend.

Simple tax advice for small businesses in the credit crunch

Hundreds of litres of nuclear submarine coolant spill from a vessel at a Royal Navy base in Plymouth into a river.

EU plans to phase out the use of traditional light-bulbs need to be a shining example for the rest of the world to follow.

Unemployed adults with no children have fallen "ever further behind" the rest of society, according to a report.

The BBC's Nick Bryant asks how the death of Barack Obama's grandmother will affect the race to the White House, coming just hours before election day.

Our guide to many of the business terms currently cropping up regularly in the headlines.

Ministers are welcoming an increase in the amount of time children in England's schools are spending on PE.

The BBC talks to eight experts about what the next US president should to do restore the country's standing in the world.

More than £20m of illicit drugs have been seized in Scotland over the past year - three times the amount last year.

A third case of the bluetongue virus is found on a farm which imported cattle, but experts say the transmission risk is "negligible".

A "top-to-tail" inquiry is to be held after poor attendance figures put the future of Eastbourne Airbourne in jepoardy.

A veterinary nurse is infected with a type of tuberculosis normally found in cattle.