Police have been granted more time to question James Allen who went on the run after two people were killed in separate attacks. The 36-Year-Old wa...

Taxpayer-backed Lloyds Banking Group revealed lower-than-expected profits on Tuesday after it took an additional £375 million hit to cover payment pr...

One World Trade Center has become the tallest building in New York after steel columns were lifted onto the top of the "Freedom Tower". The constru...

The suicides of two teenage girls could have been avoided if there had been more staff at the care unit they were living in, a sheriff said on Tuesday...

Eight-year-old Ian Bell who fell into the swollen River Wear five days ago is still missing, despite police checking 13 miles of water. Ian was pla...

Facebook and the NHS have teamed up to allow people to sign up for organ donation on the social network, which can be published to their timeline as a...

Nine more people have been arrested as part of the investigation into the naming on Twitter of the victim in the footballer Ched Evans rape case, Nort...

MI6 was accused today of failing to disclose evidence during the 21-month police inquiry into the death riddle of spy Gareth Williams. A detective ...

Tanning booth devotee Patricia Krentcil has pleaded not guilty to charges of child endangerment, after allegations that she allowed her five-year-old ...

Letters seized from Osama Bin Laden's Pakistani hideout expose the Al Qaeda leader's frustration with his jihadi "brothers" and his inability to contr...

Persistant rain has left Brits beleaguered this week as April showers continued into May, but the bank holiday promises to be drier despite forecaster...

The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland is facing a chorus of calls for his resignation after allegations that he knew five children were being abu...

Low cost airline bmibaby is set to close later this year, and with it the possibility that hundreds of jobs could be axed. The carrier transferred...

As concerns grow over the treatment of the Ukraine's former premier, Yulia Tymoshenko, in prison, the Foreign Office said there had still been no deci...

Royal Bank of Scotland is expected to announce plans to fully repay £163 billion of emergency loans on Friday, claims BBC business editor Robert Pest...

An elephant who can play the harmonica is causing a flap at Washington's National Zoo, with her perchant for music-making astonishing audiences worldw...

Sub-zero temperatures and even some snow are set to keep holidaymakers at home over the long weekend. Though there may be light relief from rain, ...

Journalist Emer O'Toole and her whiskered armpits bravely ventured into unknown territory on the groomed armchairs of ITV's This Morning. As part ...