Lengthy queues at Heathrow Airport passport control are called "unacceptable" by airport owner BAA and prompt MPs to demand an explanation from the immigration minister.

London's Tottenham Court Road is sealed off and a building evacuated after witnesses report a man inside had threatened to blow himself up.

US economic growth slowed to an annualised pace of 2.2% in the first quarter of the year, from 3% in the final three months of last year.

Pop star Kylie Minogue will headline this summer's Proms In The Park concert, where she will be backed by the BBC Concert Orchestra.

US pop star Lady Gaga kicks off her Born This Way Ball tour with a concert in Seoul that fans under the age of 18 had been forbidden to attend.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg defends 'downright unpopular' coalition policies in an interview with the BBC's Nick Robinson.

A bird of prey tries to snatch a woman's dog as she walks across a field near her home in Berkshire.

A soldier from 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards serving in Afghanistan dies from a gunshot wound, the Ministry of Defence says.