Two-time champion Mark Williams will miss the World Championship for the first time since 1996 after failing to qualify.

The UK inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) fell to 1.6% in March from 1.7% in February, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Hundreds of thousands more people are turning to food banks to stop themselves from going hungry, says charity the Trussell Trust.

A charity's report that it handed out almost one million food parcels in the last year makes headlines, while the Daily Express questions one mother's use of the benefit system.

A major rescue operation is under way after a ferry carrying 476 people capsized off South Korea, coastguard officials say.

After nearly six years of falling living standards, weekly earnings have finally edged above inflation, according to the Office for National Statistics.

A robotic submarine continues its search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on the seabed of the southern Indian Ocean.

Paul Flowers, the former chairman of the Co-operative Bank and ex-Methodist Church minister, is charged with three counts of drug possession.