Action is needed to fight a "quiet epidemic" of oesophageal cancer, which is on the rise in the UK, particularly in men, say cancer experts.

The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards calls for new measures, including criminal sanctions, to make bankers responsible for their own failings.

Girls will no longer have to pledge their devotion to God when they join the Guides and Brownies in the UK, the organisation announces.

Ballet dancer David Wall, who became the youngest male principal in the history of the Royal Ballet, dies of cancer, aged 67.

The global monetary organisation is going to try to teach the world about public finances.

Dundee, Hull, Leicester and Swansea Bay make the shortlist to become the UK's second City of Culture in 2017.

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom is to launch an investigation into BSkyB over the supply of its sports channels to rival broadcasters.

The bodies of two missing divers are found close to a wrecked German warship in Scapa Flow in Orkney.