Lib Dem MEP Sir Graham Watson is reprimanded by the party for responding to the PM's decision to postpone a speech on Europe with an "offensive" tweet.

David Cameron dismisses calls for UKIP leader Nigel Farage to be allowed to take part in the leaders' debates at the next general election, due in 2015.

Intel shares fall in after-hours trading as the computer chipmaker unveils a drop in sales and profits for the last three months of 2012.

Rent arrears hit their highest level for nearly a year in December as Christmas took its toll on tenants' finances, a survey suggests.

Police investigate allegations a paedophile ring with links to the then government abused boys at a guesthouse in south-west London in the 1980s.

All of Boeing's flagship 787 Dreamliner planes are taken out of service following concerns about battery safety, the first major aircraft grounding since 1979.

The Greek parliament votes to investigate ex-finance Minister George Papaconstantinou for allegedly tampering with a list suspected tax evaders.

Infectious bacteria have for the first time been caught performing "biological alchemy" to transform parts of the body into those more suited to their purposes, by a team in Edinburgh.