British gold medal hope and reigning Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins has fallen victim to an extreme case of an age-old prank, as his Olympic ...

Two people have died after a crash between a motorcycle and a car, police said. The collision happened just after 11pm last night on Lushington Hil...

Detectives investigating the 1984 killing of nine-year-old Christopher Laverack have identified his killer, it was announced on Wednesday. Humbersi...

A man has begun a social media quest to return a lost camera to its rightful owners, posting a picture of the family on Facebook, leading others to jo...

Hans Rausing, one of Britain's richest men, avoided a jail sentence on Wednesday after he admitted preventing the lawful and decent burial of his wife...

Three youths have been arrested after a teenage boy was found stabbed to death. Detectives have launched a murder inquiry after the boy was found w...

Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton has decided to leave the microblogging site Twitter, claiming her "not very thick skin" meant she could not deal wi...

The body of Dylan Cecil, a four-year-old boy who slipped from a jetty, is believed to have been washed out to sea after specialist sonar equipment fai...

Around 1.8 million Britons will head abroad this bank holiday weekend, with those staying at home set to endure cool and wet conditions. While thos...

The pathologist who wrongly diagnosed the cause of death of Ian Tomlinson, who died in the G20 protests in 2009, has been struck off the Medical Regis...

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Police are working to identify a body that was found inside a British Airways passenger aircraft which landed at Heathrow on Thursday. British Airw...

The Paralympic Games torch relay was kicked off on Friday at a London ceremony attended by the Prime Minister, David Cameron, London mayor Boris Johns...

Police are searching for a missing child sex offender, who they warn could attempt to befriend a family. Registered sex offender John Archer Barnet...

Duff beer, the fictional favourite brew of Homer Simpson, has become the subject of a multi-national lawsuit as 20th Century Fox fights two Colombian ...

The shooting of at least people outside the Empire State Building has shocked due to its busy, central location but it is not the first tragedy to hav...

A 14-year-old boy is due to appear in court on Saturday charged with the murder of a homeless man who was found dead outside a Liverpool supermarket. ...

Police have launched an investigation after burglars ransacked the home of Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles and stole two cars from his driveway. The presen...

The Coalition government has activated a £2 million emergency plan to help tackle a cholera epidemic sweeping through Sierra Leone. The Department...

The lighting of the Paralympic Flame at Northern Ireland's devolved parliament has shone the message of the power of human endeavour and energy, it ha...

A senior Taliban officer has been killed in an eastern Afghanistan airstrike that also claimed the lives of twelve other militants, according to Nato....

Double Olympic champion Mo Farah has become father to twin girls, he said on Saturday. The Team GB double Olympic champion runner told Sky News his...