Now you don’t even have to wake up enough to count your change. Starbucks UK this week joined the contactless payment revolution thanks to a partnership with Visa. The credit card company has announced that 550 Starbucks locations around [...]

19 June 2013 Last updated at 10:09 GMT Nigel Evans has been an MP since 1992 Commons Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans has been arrested on suspicion of three counts of indecent assault. The 55-year-old answered bail following his [...]

19 June 2013 Last updated at 12:42 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Susan Smith: “Well, we’ve won… but [...]

United Kingdom has launched the same-day visa service (Super Priority Visa service) for people in south India. The service that was hitherto available in Delhi and Mumbai will be available in Chennai from Tuesday. The Super Priority Visa [...]

President Barack Obama arrives in Northern Ireland for the G8 Summit in Enniskillen 17 June 2013 US [...]

17 June 2013 Last updated at 17:20 GMT GCHQ, Britain’s electronic eavesdropping agency, is said to have spied on foreign politicians A diplomatic row has broken out over claims that Britain spied on foreign governments [...]

18 June 2013 Last updated at 23:10 GMT By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News A new consistent system of front-of-pack food labelling is to be introduced in the UK, [...]

19 June 2013 Last updated at 07:14 GMT Investigations have focused on maternal and infant deaths at Furness General Hospital in Barrow The healthcare regulator in England may have “deliberately” covered up knowledge [...]

President Barack Obama arrives in Northern Ireland for the G8 Summit in Enniskillen 17 June 2013 US [...]

19 June 2013 Last updated at 04:01 GMT Investigations have focused on maternal and infant deaths at Furness General Hospital in Barrow The healthcare regulator in England may have “deliberately” covered up knowledge [...]

• President Obama and President Putin are preparing for crunch talks this evening over the civil war in Syria. According to one report, Putin, the Russian president, is going to insist on four conditions for a Geneva peace summit taking place, [...]

17 June 2013 Last updated at 17:20 GMT GCHQ, Britain’s electronic eavesdropping agency, is said to have spied on foreign politicians A diplomatic row has broken out over claims that Britain spied on foreign governments [...]

18 June 2013 Last updated at 23:10 GMT By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News A new consistent system of front-of-pack food labelling is to be introduced in the UK, [...]

19 June 2013 Last updated at 00:30 GMT The commission was highly critical of aspects of the banking industry Senior bankers guilty of reckless misconduct should be jailed, a long-awaited report on banking commissioned by the [...]

17 June 2013 Last updated at 17:20 GMT GCHQ, Britain’s electronic eavesdropping agency, is said to have spied on foreign politicians A diplomatic row has broken out over claims that Britain spied on foreign governments [...]

This story has it all: UFOs spotted by pilots of three commercial jets, radar confirmation of the UFOs from air traffic controllers, reports that the UFOs were close to the U.K. headquarters of the Church of Scientology, and a sarcastic apology [...]

18 June 2013 Last updated at 21:04 GMT Article written by Mark Easton Home editor More from Mark Follow Mark on Twitter Medical director Tim Kendall in a demonstration of the technique The government [...]

Royal Ascot 2013 Dates: Tuesday 18 to Saturday 22 June Coverage: Major races on BBC 5 Radio live; Saturday Sport on 5 from Ascot; daily live text commentaries, results, reports features on BBC Sport website Dawn Approach beat Toronado [...]

18 June 2013 Last updated at 16:59 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Maria Miller: “The Internet Watch Foundation will [...]

Big name brands and designer labels are attracting Chinese visitors to Britain for their holidays, but the UK is still lagging behind France, Italy and Germany. Tourists from China need one visa for Europe and a more expensive, single one for [...]

26 May 2013 Last updated at 22:58 GMT In traffic jams, at the beach, or still at the office – how are bank holidays marked around the world? BBC correspondents from Seoul, Los Angeles, Rome, Calcutta and Moscow provide [...]

27 May 2013 Last updated at 07:30 GMT This year’s Urdd Eisteddfod kicks off on Monday for a week of festivities in Pembrokeshire Tens of thousands of people are expected in Pembrokeshire as the Urdd Eisteddfod gets under [...]

27 May 2013 Last updated at 07:47 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Detective Chief Superintendent Tim Keelan: “Armed [...]

27 May 2013 Last updated at 04:51 GMT Monday’s newspapers report on the various measures being considered by the home secretary in the aftermath of events in Woolwich. The Times suggests that Theresa May has “provoked [...]

26 May 2013 Last updated at 22:34 GMT By Emma Jones Entertainment reporter, BBC News Kristin Scott Thomas plays the “beastly” Crystal, who runs a drugs empire She [...]

26 May 2013 Last updated at 22:33 GMT By Alex Campbell BBC News Welfare reform has become one of the most divisive issues in austerity Britain. Now, a rising force within the [...]

26 May 2013 Last updated at 22:41 GMT By Will Smale Business reporter, BBC Pippa Small travels for half the year Jewellery designer Pippa Small says her job is a bit like being [...]

26 May 2013 Last updated at 22:37 GMT Apparently a typical day for Xavier, photographed aged 12 Thanks to our dog age calculator, people have been reassessing the age of their furry friends. It put a new spin on the old saying [...]

Two women are being questioned on suspicion of manslaughter after a 79-year-old man was fatally injured by an “out-of-control” dog in Liverpool. Merseyside Police said the dog was destroyed after Clifford Clarke was attacked in Richard [...]

A disabled stroke patient who appears to have shown small signs of recovery following an injection of stem cells into his brain has spoken exclusively to the BBC. Frank Marsh is one of five patients who have shown some improvement, in a small [...]