Marverine Cole

The number of people out of work in Britain has fallen for the first time since Spring last year.

Not all of us can afford to get hold of work designed by one of the world's most famous haute couture fashion designers, but - listen up all you European fashionistas - next week you will!

China has experienced its slowest pace of growth in nearly three years. And analysts aren’t surprised by the figures announced today for the world’s second largest economy.

It was the death of a musical legend which stunned the world and now audio of the emergency phone call made to police moments after Whitney Houston was found dead has been released by police in Beverley Hills.

The implications of Greece's tough austerity measures, which underpin the country's 130 billion Euro bailout, are provoking yet more national strikes. This time it's bus drivers whose backs are up. So much so they've staged a 24-hour walkout.

24 people have died in a crash in Eastern China when a truck smashed into the back of a bus carrying commuters in this morning's rush hour.

10,000 jobs around the world are to be cut at Sony. It's the result of an extraordinary last twelve months for the Japanese electronics giant which has been trying hard to shield itself from a huge battering to its bottom line.

An horrific ordeal for nine miners trapped underground in Peru is finally over. Their families almost gave up hope but today the men saw daylight for the first time in almost a week as well as the rescue workers who freed them.

Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged his support to the people of Indonesia after an earthquake and a powerful aftershock rocked the country's south west coast just hours after he arrived.

Just when everyone reckoned the Syrian government wasn't going uphold its side of the bargain when it came to an agreed ceasefire, an end to the violence still seems to be on the cards within the next 24 hours.

The killer of a British woman in Japan has lost a final appeal against his life sentence.

A tsunami warning was issued for the whole of the Indian Ocean after an earthquake measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale struck off the south west coast of Indonesia.

Wills and Kate just don't stop hitting the headlines, do they? Today's no exception. Well it's not really them, but their waxworks which are causing heads to turn!

10 people have been arrested by police in France on suspicion of being Islamic militants.

Apple fever is spreading like wildfire around the world.” That’s according to one American tech analyst, who’s predicted the company’s share price will hit the one thousand dollar mark within the next 12 months.

Police were put under pressure by protesters in South Korea angry at a planned rocket launch by its neighbours in the North next week.

Many said it was always on the cards. And now James Murdoch has stepped down as chairman of the satellite broadcasting company BSKYB. Inevitable why? Well in February he quit as chair of News International and relocated back to the US last month.

A Greek theatre has found a way of staging its own fight-back against news the country will be plunged into recession this year. By offering tickets in return for food!

Despite all the messages of doom and gloom the British Chambers of Commerce reckons the UK won't slide back into recession this year.

President Pal Schmitt announced his resignation amid allegations of plagiarism.

Footage of the moment two seriously injured British sailors were rescued from the Pacific has been released.

Preparations are well underway for the potential release of 10 hostages being held by the main Columbian rebel group, FARC.

Policies, promises, committed campaigning and the charisma of Myanmar/Burma's pro-democracy leader, Aung Sang Suu Kyi, have all been pivotal to the landslide win for her party in the country's by-elections for Parliament.

Dramatic video footage has emerged from the scene of a nightclub fire in which 6 Serbian teenagers lost their lives.

Staff who work at Goldman Sachs in Japan are fighting back against their employers over - quote - the 'intimidation and harassment' they've faced.

Friends, relatives and supporters of an unarmed teenager who was shot dead in Florida have been protesting at what they claim is the poor handling of the case.

The suspected killer of 7 people in South Western France is now dead

The standoff between French police and a suspected serial killer is into its second day.

Anyone getting married this year? Fancy trying out the world's longest bridal train?