Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife pay their respects to the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks during a visit to Ground Zero in New York.

Paddington Bear is voted the UK's favourite animated character of all time at the British Animation Awards in London.

The standards of care provided to the elderly in their home in the UK has been labelled "shocking and disgraceful" by the consumer group Which?

On the first anniversary of Syria's uprising against Bashar al-Assad's regime, the UN announces it will send a humanitarian mission this weekend.

Unemployed young people would be guaranteed a job under Labour but stripped of benefits if they refused it, leader Ed Miliband will say later.

Non-internet users may be denied information about candidates seeking election as police commissioners, warns the Electoral Commission.

A government-appointed committee says access to finance for businesses needs to be improved and warns of a £190bn funding gap over the next five years.

Chancellor George Osborne is considering cutting the 50p top rate of income tax in next week's Budget, Whitehall sources have told the BBC.