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Ministers should rethink plans to force lone parents, disabled people and long-term jobless to seek work, an adviser says.

The number of properties repossessed by mortgage lenders rose by 12% to 11,300 in the third quarter of the year.

Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie are granted a "quickie divorce" at the High Court in London.

American dominance is likely to weaken by 2025 as India and China grow stronger, a new US intelligence report says.

The BBC Trust rejects the corporation's plans to launch a £68m network of local news websites with video content.

Two men deny murdering two French students who were found dead in a blazing bedsit in London.

Rail passengers will face big fare rises in January - with some tickets going up by double the rate of inflation.

More than 15,000 primary seven pupils across Northern Ireland sit the second part of the last 11-plus exam.

More details are expected about how crude phone calls made by two BBC presenters came to be aired on BBC Radio 2.

An otter has survived a "perilous" three-mile sea crossing to the Farne Islands for the first time, the National Trust says.