Move over, politicians – Armando Iannucci has a new target. Ahead of the latest episodes of The Thick Of It hitting our screens on Saturday, the ...
Murder charges against 270 South African miners whose striking colleagues were shot and killed by police have been provisionally dropped. The count...
The mother of a man who drowned off the coast of Majorca while unsuccessfully trying to save his young son described him as "truly heroic" tonight. ...
Britain's Paralympians are still in the hunt for more gold medals and world records as they aim to build on the success of Super Saturday. Saturday...
The Duchess of Cambridge braved the rain on Sunday morning as she witnessed a golden moment for ParalympicsGB rowers. Dressed casually in a Games b...
Manchester City footballer Courtney Meppen-Walter has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after a collision in north Manc...
The velodrome erupted on Sunday as ParalympicsGB went head-to-head in a thrilling gold medal battle of Britain tandem team tussle. Anthony Kappes a...
Australia's Minister for Sport today carried out an embarrassing forfeit after losing an Olympics bet - which saw her forced to wear a Team GB kit. ...
Seventeen whales have died in a mass stranding off the coast of Fife. The mammals were part of a group of 26 pilot whales stranded at Pittenweem, n...
US president Barack Obama says he is a "huge Clint Eastwood fan" even following the actor-director's rambling "invisible Obama" monologue at the Repub...
A homeowner has been arrested after he shot two suspected burglars at his remote home. The man and his wife were disturbed by the break-in in the W...
Last year's The X Factor winners Little Mix flew straight to the top of the charts on Sunday with their new single Wings. The girls, Perrie Edwards...
There were more gold medals and world records on Sunday as British Paralympians were cheered on by sell-out crowds - as the nation takes the Games to ...
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) is contacting Britons who may have visited the United States national park at the centre of an outbreak of a deadly...
Two bodies have been found by police searching a river after a 13-year-old girl was found alone on a boat. Norfolk Police said the bodies of a man ...
A man injured in the London 7/7 bombings fears he might be deported from the UK. Professor John Tulloch, who lives in the Vale of Glamorgan, south ...
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks appeared in court on Monday to face charges linked to alleged phone hacking. The 44-year-o...
Queen of the pool Ellie Simmonds has set up her bid for a second gold later today - by smashing her own world record. The teenage star, who has onc...
Natalie Bennett was elected the new leader of the Green Party in England and Wales in a ballot of party members on Monday. The 46-year-old chair of...
Two people killed in a car crash involving a Manchester City footballer were a brother and sister, police said on Monday. Driver Kulwant Singh, 32,...
Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe’s personal collection of prison possessions has been put on public display for the first time. Handwritten love...
Twice as many new free schools will start the new term this week compared with last year, as 55 open their doors for the first time, the government ha...
An armed police officer shot a suspect six times within a second of pulling up beside the car he was in, an inquiry heard on Monday. Azelle Rodney,...
Oscar Pistorius complained twice this summer about the rules on running blades to the Paralympic governing body, officials said on Monday. The T44 ...
Advocates of a third runway at Heathrow airport will be able to make their case in a consultation process to be launched in the next few weeks, Downin...
