With the systematic slaughter of dozens of non-combatants, the evidence on the ground in the Syrian town of Houla is of a war crime. But Syria's government is saying it had no hand in the massacre.

Paul Krugman's new book challenges the consensus view of deficit cutting. Channel 4 News's Neil Macdonald looks at the economist's call for a return to the ideas of John Maynard Keynes.

Deloitte's annual report on football finance reveals just how reliant English clubs are on television income.

London's six Olympic host boroughs look set to provide more than 40 per cent of security staff for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, its official security provider reveals.

George Osborne announces a U-turn on controversial plans to cap tax relief on charitable donations following intense lobbying by charities and philanthropists.

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt gives the Leveson inquiry into media ethics an insight into the level of pressure exerted on his department by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, criticises Spain for underestimating the problems faced by Bankia, the troubled nationalised bank.

Conservationists praise two Cornish sea anglers who released a threatened 10-foot-long porbeagle shark after it had dragged their boat for a mile and taken an hour and a half to reel in.

BAE says the plans could mean the closure of its plant in Newcastle-upon-Tyne as well as up to 280 at other sites in England and Wales.