A British Gas van is driven through Leicester on 28 July. Centrica is on the lookout for more acquisitions after reporting a 65% rise in first-half profits thanks to the cold winter. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters British Gas claimed today it would hold off from increasing utility bills as long as possible, hours after almost doubling [...]

David Cameron, who willarrive in India with the largest British delegation since 1947. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Not since the days of the Raj, which came to end 63 years ago next month, have so many Brits traipsed to India on an official visit. David Cameron will tonight fly into India with the largest British delegation [...]

Despina Chatzifotiadou / CERN Particle tracks fly out from the heart of the one of the first collisions in the Large Hadron Collider at a total energy of 7 TeV. Scientists working with particle accelerators in Europe and the United States said on Monday they may be closing in on the elusive Higgs Boson, the [...]