Around 300,000 visas giving people the right to come to Britain may be wrongly approved every year, MPs are told.

Widely believed in the United States, creationism - the belief that God created the earth and man in six days - is enjoying a resurgence of support in the UK, say its followers and its critics.

Feelings are still running high in the north-east of England about the fate of Northern Rock a year after the start of the credit crunch.

Private companies and charities will be asked to educate pupils excluded from schools in England.

Former PM Tony Blair says the world would be poorer without faith but says politicians find it hard to talk about.

A plumber accidentally died after being electrocuted as he fixed a boiler, an inquest hears.

Scientists in Lowestoft get £2.5m to study eels in a bid to discover why their numbers are declining.

It's the highest-selling album in history and launched music's biggest star. Released 25 years ago, Michael Jackson's Thriller is credited with changing the face of pop music, so what made it such a phenomenon?

An American tourist told how he and a friend made thousands of dollars from photographs they took of Princess Diana's fatal car crash

Evidence against McLaren is lacking despite huge fine

The UK government's chief scientific advisor launches a code of ethics which he hopes will spread to labs worldwide.

A ferry firm reassures passengers services on a Devon to Spain route are safe despite reports it was a possible terrorism target.

The Cutty Sark is to undergo yet more restoration work after being ravaged by fire. At what point does it cease to be the original ship, asks Lisa Jardine.

A former girlfriend of music producer Phil Spector tells his murder trial that she was threatened with guns.

Mihir Bose on how the cricket murder is affecting Jamaica

Sir Ronnie Flanagan says he had no knowledge of collusion between police and loyalist paramilitaries.

How the latest internet revolution is driving a new wave of businesses.

Police say an incident involving the Bishop of Southwark is not being treated as a mugging.

Scientists have cast doubt on charges that six foreign medics deliberately infected Libyan children with HIV.

With religion increasingly polarised, is there any benefit in not knowing if there's a higher power? One man - an ex-vicar - explains why agnosticism is his creed.