Phone Hacking Claims: MPs To Investigate

MPs will investigate allegations of unauthorised hacking of mobiles after police said they would question the Prime Minister's spokesman on the matter.

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Social housing firm Connaught, which employs 10,000 people, has gone into administration after failing to raise extra funding from lenders.

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Millions of commuters in London have faced disruption on the Tube network due to a 24-hour strike - but the level of impact was disputed between unions and bosses.

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Sky News has learned that our current economic plight is even worse than in the aftermath of the 1980s recession.

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Police are still searching for the mother of a newborn baby girl found dead in a garden, as a post mortem on her body proved inconclusive.

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HSBC chairman Stephen Green has been appointed as Trade Minister in David Cameron's Government.

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A British man has plunged to his death from a fifth-floor hotel balcony after apparently taking part in a game.

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A man has free-climbed a San Francisco skyscraper using nothing more than suction cups to help him cling to the glass structure.

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One of the world's biggest money printing factories is being probed by fraud investigators over dud banknote paper.

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Up to 2.5 million French workers have taken to the streets in protest over proposed new pension reforms.

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Julia Gillard has clung on to power as Australia's Prime Minister, 17 days after her party suffered major losses in the country's general election.

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Millions of people are about to find out whether they will be hit with a demand for more than £1,000 in tax they have underpaid because of a blunder.

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Tony Blair will not cancel a party to celebrate the launch of his memoirs, despite a pledge by protesters to disrupt the event.

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The man who murdered former Beatle John Lennon three decades ago will remain behind bars for at least another two years after being denied parole for a sixth time.

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A father has been accused of repeatedly raping one of his daughters and keeping another locked in a small room for a year.

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A woman injured by a policeman as he threw her into a cell has slammed his six-month jail term, telling Sky News it "doesn't seem fair".

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The Border Agency is struggling to cope with its asylum caseload and is only removing around 3% of new applicants entering Britain.

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A 30-stone man has left his job after being told his weight makes him a health and safety risk.

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A British man suspected of burning his wife's body and burying the ashes in cement after accidentally killing her at their French countryside mansion has been arrested.

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An American teenager has had a lucky escape after being swept away in a river.

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Multi-millionaire banker Bob Diamond has been named as the next chief executive of Barclays, on a salary of £1.35m.

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More people would opt to cut back on food rather than give up their broadband connection if money became tight, according to a Sky News survey.

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Plans for a referendum on changing the Westminster voting system have comfortably cleared their first Commons hurdle. 

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A "Double Broom" created by a five-year-old boy is one of the most ingenious inventions of the last decade, according to the British Library.

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