Gaddafi Loyalists Hold Out Over Holiday

Loyal followers of Muammar Gaddafi are refusing to surrender to those who have forced him into hiding, raising the prospect of new fighting in Libya when an ultimatum expires after this week's Eid holiday.

UK's summer 'coolest since 1993'

This summer has been the UK's coolest since 1993, provisional Met Office figures indicate.

August was 'deadliest month' for US in Afghan war

August 2011 has become the deadliest month for US troops in the nearly 10-year war in Afghanistan, according to an unofficial tally.

Gender pay gap 'to last for another 98 years'

It will take almost a century for UK women managers to be paid the same as their male counterparts, a study says.

Warning over disability living allowance shake-up

Ministers must "learn the lessons" of past welfare changes or risk their proposed shake-up of disability support leaving many in poverty, it is claimed.