A gun and bomb attack kills at least four people in the northern Nigerian city of Gombe, amid an upsurge in religious and ethnic violence.

A Briton accused of selling batteries for Iranian missiles has arrived in Texas and been taken into custody after being extradited from the UK

The payday lender MiniCredit apologises to customers who received emails threatening to contact their employers if they did not settle their debts.

Doctors' leaders are holding an emergency meeting to consider balloting for industrial action.

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford launches a campaign to buy a painting by the French Impressionist Edouard Manet and prevent it leaving the UK.

The Church does not own marriage nor have the exclusive right to say who can marry, a government minister says.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez travels to Cuba for an operation on a lesion eight months after he first had surgery for a cancerous growth.

Norwegian musician and composer Terje Isungset uses his background in jazz and Scandinavian music, to create musical instruments from non-traditional materials including ice.