Eating fast foods such as hamburgers, hotdogs and pizza and baked commercial goods like fairy cakes, croissants and doughnuts is linked directly to de...
A century on from the sinking of the Titanic, a science writer has examined the cascade of events that led to the demise of the ‘unsinkable’ ship....
Piercing, vividly coloured and sometimes sinister, this selection of pictures shows the windows of the souls of creatures great and small. Snapped...
A 14-year-old boy has been detained for a minimum of 16 years for killing a woman in a hammer attack. More follows... ...
A 15-year-old boy has been detained for 16 years for killing his mother with a hammer after being inspired by a plot from Coronation Street. Daniel...
David Lynch’s work is known for being dark, disturbed and sinister. And his latest music video is no exception. Featuring a mohawked punk settin...
Beatles fans will be up in arms after learning Paul McCartney met with an unfortunate end today. On Twitter. It's not the first time the Liver...
Artist Tracey Emin has unveiled British Airways' Olympic-inspired aircraft, 'The Dove'. The plane, which will fly thousands of passengers during t...
The father of Sarah Palin's grandson has another baby on the way - with a 20-year-old teacher, TMZ exclusively reports. Levi Johnston was hurled ...
It’s International Carrot Day! Of course it is. According to official literature this momentous day was founded in 2003 to celebrate the orange vege...
Government plans to hold more inquests and court cases behind closed doors in order to appease American intelligence agencies appeared to be in tatter...
Gale force winds, snow, sleet and rain which battered parts of Britain and left around 10,000 homes across the north-east of England without power are...
More than 800 dead laws, some of which date back to the 14th century, should be swept away in a bid to clear up the statute book, a report said today....
A man is in a serious condition in hospital after he was reportedly stabbed in the neck with a broken bottle at a BlackBerry party where Jessie J had ...
Wounds sustained by a juvenile woolly mammoth suggest the beast was sieged by hunting lions AND ancient human beings, scientists say. The discover...
George Galloway is undoubtedly riding high on his by-election win and recent fourth wedding – but his third wife may have put a damper on things aft...
The American Apparel clothing chain has been warned against using exploitative images of women after a watchdog ruled a series of ads were likely to c...
They say lighting doesn’t strike the same place twice, but these bolts have bombarded the same area over eleven hair-raising minutes. Each indiv...
Karen Matthews, the mother who kidnapped her own daughter to claim reward money, is set to be released from prison today. The mother-of-seven was ...
She’s dominated Twitter, Facebook and most of the news channels all week, and today Samantha Brick fought her corner on ITV’s This Morning. Af...
It's 18 years since his death, but Kurt Cobain continues to live on in the hearts and ears of millions. The Nirvana frontman, who took his own lif...
Tesco's blue-and-white striped Value label has been shelved. The no-frills range of items that has been a staple for many over the last 20 years w...
Tesco's blue-and-white striped Value label has been shelved. The no-frills range of items that has been a staple for many over the last 20 years w...
The town where Hollywood blockbuster The Hunger Games is up for sale – should you have a spare £880,000 knocking about. The 72-acre Henry River...
Descendants of those who died in the Titanic disaster 100 years ago were some of those who set sail today on a memorial cruise to the site of the wrec...
