UNITED KINGDOM

Within two years time, 600,000 more British children will slip into absolute poverty, pushing the total number to more than 3.1 million.

An ancient lake, hidden beneath 1.8 miles of ice in the western Antarctic area, could contain clues about climate change and future changes in sea level, as well as potentially uncovering new forms of life, according to a team of UK-based researchers and scientists.

CME Group aims to launch cleared over-the-counter metals products in Europe by the end of 2011, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

Apple has received more than a million preorders for the iPhone 4S in a single day, toppling the previous record of 600,000 set by the iPhone 4 last year, the company says.

Amy Winehouse may have left this planet in July, but if her father has his way she'll live on forever, on the world's bookstore shelves.

The day after he tied the knot with American heiress Nancy Shevell, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney announced 11 extra dates for his On the Run tour ending in his native town of Liverpool, England, on December 20.

Rupert Murdoch and his sons James and Lachlan should be kicked off the News Corp board along with 10 other directors when shareholders vote at this year's annual general meeting, a corporate governance watchdog said on Monday.

The semifinals of the 2011 Rugby World Cup are set - and it features the same four teams as the inaugural version.

With winter rolling around, you probably can't help but notice it's been getting colder than before. According to a new study, the colder weather we're experiencing may be due to solar variation.

Lack of board oversight during the News of the World phone-hacking scandal and excessive compensation are cited as reasons by advisory firms to reinvent board of directors.

China has installed its first gold vending machine, offering coins and bullion to shoppers in a Beijing shopping district, according to a report.

Prosecutors allege that Majeed conspired with Butt and Asif to fix parts of the Lord's Test between England and Pakistan last August.

Mitch Winehouse will publish a book about his late daughter, singer Amy Winehouse.

The outlook for the world's major economies is continuing to darken according to the latest data from the OECD published on Monday, which showed sharp falls in leading indicators for all countries except Japan.

In some of his strongest rhetoric against the problem of illegal immigration to the United Kingdom, Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has urged Britons to report such lawbreakers to the authorities so they can be deported.

BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India suffered email outages for several hours on Monday, adding to the woes of struggling manufacturer Research in Motion, increasingly seen as a takeover target.

Ironically, RIMM shares are up 2.4 percent in New York trading.

A Hong Kong design student's tribute to Steve Jobs that generated a buzz in cyberspace following the death of the co-founder of Apple last week is not original, the teen-ager said Monday.

The antibiotic that has usually been used to treat the sexually transmitted disease, cefixime, is no longer effective.

Proxy Advisory firm Glass Lewis & Co. has told shareholders of News Corporation that they should vote against six directors, including Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch's sons James and Lachlan, for re-election to the company board.

As per a new law providing equal rights to female heirs, a first-born daughter of royal couple, Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, will be allowed to inherit one of the wealthiest estates in Britain.