Deutsche Telekom and its Magyar Telekom arm agree to pay $95m to settle charges they paid bribes in Macedonia and Montenegro.

The US rejects as "horrific" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's musings about whether the US might be giving Latin American leaders cancer.

A free helpline for whistleblowers in the NHS and social services is to be launched, the government says.

Most economists polled by the BBC say recession will return to Europe next year, while UK interest rates will stay at 0.5%.

Margaret Thatcher considered arming the police during the riots of 1981, newly-released National Archives files show.

Figures show a sharp rise in the cost of council services for elderly and disabled people making charges a stealth tax on the vulnerable, Labour warns.

Jamaica's main opposition People's National Party wins national elections, preliminary results show, after a campaign dominated by the economy.

North Korea tells the international community not to "expect any change" in the wake of Kim Jong-il's death, as the US sends a top diplomat to the region.