Marverine Cole

The UK jobless figures are down. According to Office of National Statistics, there were 50,000 fewer people looking for a job in the three months to August, meaning a total of 2.53 million people are out of work.

The American people have been reacting to last night's second live televised debate between President Barack Obama and the man who wants to take over in the hot seat, Republican nominee, Mitt Romney.

Both the FA and England Under-21s captain, Jordan Henderson, have condemned the actions by those involved in the racism and violence that happened last night in Serbia as England beat the team one-nil in a European Championship play-off match.

1,800 people have had to be evacuated from a food factory in Germany after a chemical leak. Acid and alkaline leaked from a tank at the Kraft factory in Hanover causing a cloud of poisonous gas to drift across the site and miles beyond.

Gary McKinnon's mother has today thanked the Home Secretary Theresa May for 'her strength and courage' in doing 'the right thing' and blocking her depressive son's extradition to America.

Radovan Karadzic – the former Bosnian Serb leader - has denied charges of war crimes against him as he defends himself at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague.

The Chief Executives of two of the world's biggest players in the aerospace market - BAE Systems and EADS - have expressed their 'disappointment' after a proposed merger between the firms - which was worth around £28bn - hit the rocks.

A fire risk is forcing Japanese car maker, Toyota, to recall 7.4 million vehicles across the world. It's the single biggest recall of cars, since Ford had to pull 7.9 million vehicles back 12 years ago.

The teenage campaigner from Pakistan, shot by the Taliban for her outspoken views, is in a critical but stable condition in hospital. 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head in a deliberately targeted attack by the extremists.

The Conservative Party's Autumn conference in Birmingham ends today and Prime Minister David Cameron will wrap up proceedings with another deeply personal speech.

Comedian Justin Lee Collins has been sentenced to 140 hours of community service and has been ordered to pay costs of three and a half thousand pounds by a judge for harassing his former girlfriend, Anna Larke.

The former Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, has ruled out a dramatic comeback to political life after finally confirming he won't be putting himself forward as a candidate for the country's next elections in Spring 2013.

Barclays Bank is doing its best to shake up the investment side of the business and is taking huge strides into retail banking by bringing the ING Direct UK business into the fold.

The Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, reckons there should be more legal protection for homeowners, who overreact, when they're confronted by burglars on their properties.

I'm just like you' is the message from Labour Leader, Ed Miliband today as he addresses his party faithful at the autumn conference in Manchester later.

Jeremy Forrest, the British teacher, who ran off to France with a 15-year-old pupil has agreed to be extradited back to Britain in a court hearing today, although French judges won't deliver their decision until Thursday.

Hundreds of volunteers in Mid Wales are back out on the streets of Machynlleth today to help police in the search for missing toddler, April Jones.

Officials in Nepal say seven British people were among the 19 trekkers heading to the Mount Everest region who died in a plane crash in the capital.

Footballer John Terry says he's "disappointed" over the FA's decision in a discplinary hearing to find him guilty of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand.

The father of the teacher, Jeremy Forrest, who's fled abroad with one of his pupils, Megan Stammers – who's half the teacher's age – has made an emotional appeal for his son to bring the young girl home.

A man's been arrested in Australia in connection with the disappearance of an Irish woman. Jill Meagher - who's 29 and originally from Drodegha - has been missing since the early hours of Saturday, when she was out with friends.

Just when you thought Julian Assange had gone a bit quiet, the founder of Wikileaks has popped up again doing his best to try and win friends and influence people by addressing the United Nations in New York and courting more controversy.

Tributes are being paid to the American singer and television host, Andy Williams, who's died at the age of 84. He'd been battling bladder cancer since November last year but and his publicist said he's planned to go on performing.

The North East of England has been bearing the brunt of what the Met Office has been called the worst September flooding in thirty years.

The world's biggest bookseller, Barnes and Noble, has thrown down the gauntlet to Amazon and other rivals with the launch of a glut of new, rather unusually titled NOOK electronic devices here in the UK.

Demonstrators in Greece have clashed with riot police in the capital Athens today as angry street protests over the country's austerity measures turned nasty.

Two huge explosions have rocked the Syrian capital of Damascus close to military general staff headquarters. According to the country's Information Minister, individual roadside bombs were the culprit.

A female police officer has been shot dead and her female colleague critically injured during the arrest of a murder suspect in Manchester this morning. Both officers were unarmed.

The French version of the magazine Closer has been banned from publishing online or in print, any more of those topless pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge.