UK labour market data for January showed an extremely strong jobs market that month with employment expanding at an annual rate of 1.5%, which is the strongest growth rate in two years.

David Cameron has called Nigeria and Afghanistan "possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world".

THE FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation sought to hack into the phones of 9/11 victims, according to a law enforcement official.

NANCY PELOSI, the first woman to serve as US Speaker of the House, appeared out of a job after a short but productive four years in office, as Republicans retook the chamber she ran with gusto.