In his first budget, Jeremy Hunt announces sweeping state-funded childcare reforms and pension tax breaks, encouraging people to return to work.
Hundreds of thousands of teachers, lecturers, civil servants, junior doctors, and tube drivers walk out, with unions warning there are more strikes to come.
Washington and Moscow trade blame over the crash of an American drone, the first time since the Cold War that a U.S. aircraft was brought down by a Russian warplane.
