The shocking figures, from the Office for National Statistics, highlights the crippling impact of the rising cost of living on the workforce.

An Oklahoma-based project is creating a working model of the legendary plane, which it plans to fly from October at events just as the Farnborough Air Show.

Workers were sent to a training event at the Belfry near Oxford (pictured) and in return enjoyed a three-course meal with wine and an overnight stay.

The so-called human Barbie, 23, has said she is now converitng to ‘Breatharianism’ – living off only light and air.

PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Jan Brewer's veto of a bill allowing businesses to refuse service to gays exposed a fracture within the Republican Party between social conservatives and the GOP's pro-business wing, a split that Democrats hope to turn into a midterm election campaign issue.

WASHINGTON (AP) — First the teenager survived a rare cancer. Then she wanted to study it, spurring a study that helped scientists find a weird gene flaw that might play a role in how the tumor strikes.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A dispatcher at Los Angeles International Airport couldn't immediately send police to a shooting last year because the emergency phone system didn't provide a location, according to an investigation that also found broken panic buttons that are supposed to quickly call for help.

Communities near areas scarred by wildfires now at risk of flooding and mud flows.

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Masked gunmen stormed parliament in Ukraine's strategic Crimea region Thursday as Russian fighter jets scrambled to patrol borders, the stirrings of a potentially dangerous confrontation reminiscent of Cold War brinksmanship.

The U.S. consumer watchdog said on Wednesday it has sued ITT Educational Services Inc for what the agency says are predatory student lending practices that could lead borrowers to default on their loans.