Parts of England and Wales are facing fresh flood fears after heavy rain lashed southern Britain overnight following the wettest April since records b...

Rail services will be hit today because of the first of a series of strikes by hundreds of train drivers in a dispute over pensions. Members of the...

Two men were killed when the car they were in left the road and crashed into some trees, an ambulance service said today. The accident happened on ...

Repeated failed attempts to deport radical cleric Abu Qatada have cost nearly £1m in legal fees, the government confirmed. Immigration Minister Da...

Cannabis farmers steal around £200 million of electricity every year to grow their illegal crops, according to figures out today. Crime expert Phi...

A model who graced the cover of teen magazines has died of anorexia at just 19 years old. Bethaney Wallace, who had suffered with an eating disorde...

European leaders are threatening to boycott the forthcoming Euro 2012 football tournament over the treatment of Ukranian opposition leader Yulia Tymos...

Seven people have been arrested in dawn raids across the country on suspicion of funding terrorism, Scotland Yard has said. Officers from the Metro...

MI6 failed to hand over a lot of Gareth Williams's belongings during Scotland Yard's painstaking investigation into the spy's death mystery, an inques...

The culture committee's findings about the failure to uncover the extent of phone hacking at the News of the World raise "serious questions" about whe...

Former News of the World editor Colin Myler said he "stands by" the evidence he gave MPs over phone hacking after being accused of misleading parliame...

UPDATED 21:35 1 May 2012 with news of police bail Two men arrested on suspicion of murdering a teenager whose body was found on the Queen's Sandrin...

A New York hotel maid's civil lawsuit against Dominique Strauss-Kahn can proceed to trial, a US judge has ruled. Strauss Khan had attempted to halt...

A woman London Underground passenger has admitted hurling racist abuse at fellow passengers after a video of her appeared on the internet. Jacqueli...

One man was killed and two others seriously injured in a motorway crash involving five vehicles, police said on Wednesday. Two lorries, two vans an...

The anti-GM activists who are threatening to destroy experiment on genetically modified crops have said they feel they have "no choice" and allowing t...

Kate McCann's book about her daughter Madeleine's disappearance has sold nearly 400,000 copies and raised up to £1 million for the fund to find the m...

Hospital trusts need to do more to tackle the problem of foreign patients who avoid paying for NHS care, a senior doctor has said as an investigation ...

The judge leading the Leveson Inquiry into media standards has suggested that the planned second part of his probe - into specific allegations of wron...

The body of a baby boy has been discovered at a recycling plant, police said today. Police were called by staff at the Bell Waste Control site on W...

The death of MI6 spy Gareth Williams was "most suspicious" and it is "highly likely a third party was involved" in his demise a senior Met officer inv...

Kate McCann has revealed how her twins want to help in the search for missing daughter Madeleine. Speaking on Wednesday morning she told ITV's Lorr...

Bosses at the UK's first privately-run NHS general hospital have insisted they will improve standards despite claims that they will need to make "eye-...