UK

A former Metropolitan Police officer has been jailed for 16 months after he admitted stealing money from a man who died after collapsing. 

Scotland's first minister has said the decision to close the nation's only oil refinery was "premature" and could have been delayed by "two to three years". 

A teenager who appeared in Freddie Flintoff's Field Of Dreams series has died in a car crash. 

The decision to approve the UK's first coal mine for 30 years has been thrown out by a High Court judge. 

Sir Mohamed Mansour, the former Conservative Party treasurer, has been approached about backing a bid for The Daily Telegraph being spearheaded by Nadhim Zahawi, the erstwhile Tory chancellor. 

Yodel, the parcel carrier which narrowly averted collapse earlier this year, is to begin hiring thousands of workers as it prepares for the peak shopping period in the final quarter…

Workers at aircraft maker Boeing are to go on strike for the first time since the global financial crash, piling more pressure on the troubled company. 

A police officer fined £1,500 for assault after wrongly arresting a woman for not paying a bus fare has had his conviction overturned. 

Six British diplomats have been expelled from Russia after being accused of "spying and sabotage". 

North Korea has given a rare insight into the heart of its secretive nuclear weapons programme which produces fuel for atomic bombs.