New Year 2016: Rate hikes, China growth and lower oil prices - the business outlook
Central banks raising rates, China's slowing economic growth and falling oil prices set to dominate 2016?
National Archives Thatcher files: From napalm in London to 'explicit and distasteful' Aids awareness
Secret government files from mid-1980s reveal bizarre discussions in Margaret Thatcher's administration.
Oliver Letwin: Should Tory grandee resign over 'racist' comments about the Broadwater Farm riots?
David Cameron's policy chief accused of racism over advice to Margaret Thatcher after 1985 riots.
New Year 2016: Five threats to humanity bigger than Isis
From climate change to obesity, these have a bigger impact on humankind than Daesh.
Who is predicting the end of the world in 2016?
Will 2016 – and maybe even Barack Obama – bring about End Times? These guys think so.
UK house prices in 2016: Where the property market is going
House price growth set to slow as London market plateaus amid affordability problems.
2015 in news stories: From Jihadi John's unmasking to China's market crash and Paris attacks
Islamic State, Syria, Ukraine, the Nepal earthquake and more – it has been a big year for news.
Afghanistan: A timeline from departure of British troops to the fresh battle for Sangin
Battle for Sangin rages as UK military personnel redeployed to Helmand Province.
Spain elections: What is Podemos?
Podemos is a left-wing political party in Spain, led by Pablo Iglesias Turrión, and is on the up.
Council house for life abolished? The proposed tenancy changes explained
Housing minister Brandon Lewis proposes end to 'home for life' council housing.
David Cameron's decade: From idyllic English upbringing to Britain's prime minister
Call Me Dave biography offers insider perspective on Cameron's rise to the top.
Sugar tax: Should we pay more for unhealthy soft drinks?
MPs on health committee propose a new tax on sugary to fight rising obesity in children
Philip Larkin: Ten miserable quotes to mark his new memorial in Poets' Corner
Larkin to get memorial in Westminster Abbey among other great British poets.
UK housing crisis: Sorry George Osborne but 400,000 new homes is still not good enough
Osborne extends Help to Buy to London and promises hundreds of thousands more homes.
Autumn Statement 2015: Labour's John McDonnell quotes Chairman Mao at George Osborne
McDonnell read from Chinese communist Mao's Little Red Book in reply to Osborne.
What Turkey shooting down a Russian jet means for Nato
Russia's President Putin accused Nato member Turkey of stabbing him in the back over Isis.
Autumn Statement 2015: John McDonnell faces first big test as Labour shadow chancellor
Chancellor George Osborne will deliver his first Autumn Statement under a majority Conservative government.
Paris climate change talks: Why are some people global warming deniers?
Vast majority of climate change science shows humans contributing to global warming.
Donald Trump is a dangerous fascist who wants to create a personality cult
Trump is frontrunner for Republican presidential candidacy in 2016 US election.
The HBOS Bonfire of the Vanities: Where are the under-fire former bank bosses now?
Peter Cummings, Lord Stevenson, James Crosby and Andy Hornby all criticised over HBOS failings.
Paris attacks: Would you now vote yes to staying in the EU?
European unity on display after Paris attacks by Isis, but immigration concerns intensify.
Ken Livingstone mental health row: Jeremy Corbyn should beware of Labour's red albatross
Livingstone, a former London mayor, attracts controversy with outbursts and political associations.
What does 'shoot to kill' mean for armed police in the UK?
Jeremy Corbyn criticised for saying he is uncomfortable with a shoot to kill policy in Britain.
Paris attacks: Putin's Russia has West on diplomatic back-foot over Syria, Assad and Isis
US, UK and others face Syria war negotiations on Russia's terms after Paris attacks by Islamic State.
Jihadi John: Mohammed Emwazi's death proves we will get you in the end
Isis "executioner" killed in US airstrike on Raqqa, Syria, with UK support.
Jihadi John: After Mohammed Emwazi, Reyaad Khan and Ruhul Amin, who is next on the UK kill list?
Emwazi is latest British jihadist targeted in air strikes on Syria by UK and US forces.
Tory U-turn turmoil: Tax credit climbdown, northern rail reversal and EU migrant back-pedalling
Conservative government marks first six months of majority with a number of policy U-turns.
Ben Carson: What are the Seventh Day Adventists beliefs of the Republican presidential contender?
Republican presidential frontrunner follows Seventh Day Adventism, a Christian sect with 18.5 million members.
Remembrance Day 2015: Ten facts about the Korean War, Britain's forgotten conflict
British forces were involved in the first major conflict to break out after the end of the Second World War
Harry Leslie Smith: 'Appalling Calais refugees camp reminds me of war-torn Hamburg in 1945'
Smith's new book Love Among The Ruins retells his meeting of wife Friede in post-war Hamburg.
