UKIP MEP and election candidate Janice Atkinson is suspended "following allegations of a financial nature", the party says.

The names of sex offence suspects in England and Wales should not be made public unless they are charged, a cross-party group of MPs says.

Plans to overhaul transport across the North of England, including multi-billion pound rail schemes, are being laid out by the government later.

Greece has agreed to provide a new economic reform plan to secure the additional bailout funds required to prevent bankruptcy, EU leaders say.

Allegations of a "serious financial nature" against a UKIP MEP and general election candidate "couldn't look worse", Nigel Farage says.

TSB - the bank formerly owned by Lloyds - has agreed to a £1.7bn takeover by Spanish bank Sabadell.

A passenger train derails in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing at least 30 people and leaving dozens injured.

Britain's public finances improve in February with government borrowing down by a third from a year earlier thanks to a pick up in seasonal income tax payments.