The BBC has axed a £98.4m IT project after the scheme was found to have "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money".
A tweet by Sally Bercow about Lord McAlpine which he claims named him as a paedophile was libellous, the High Court has ruled.
Actress Amanda Bynes has been arrested in New York for possessing marijuana amid claims she threw a bong out of a window in front …
A post-mortem into the death of Drummer Lee Rigby has formally identified him but failed to confirm the cause of death, Scotland Y…
Photos and texts taken from Trayvon Martin's mobile phone have been released by lawyers for the man charged with shooting dead the…
A British Airways plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport as eyewitnesses reported seeing the aircraft "…
Two earthquakes have hit the Ring of Fire area, registering magnitudes of 8.2 and 5.7 and prompting a tsunami warning.
Two men have been arrested for making alleged offensive comments on a social networking website about the killing of a serving Bri…
Thieves appear to have struck again during an event at the Cannes Film Festival, this time making off with a $2.6m (£1.7m) neckla…
A four-lane bridge across the Skagit River in Washington state has collapsed, throwing people and vehicles into the water but incr…
A woman and her 10-year-old daughter died on a motor cruiser on Lake Windermere after being poisoned by carbon monoxide fumes, an …
The dramatic moment police shot the two Woolwich terror suspects has been caught on video.
Bailiffs are profiting at the expense of struggling families because of cuts to council tax benefits, according to Citizens Advice…
Children who access pornography are more likely to have sex at a younger age and engage in "risky" sexual behaviours, a report by …
Few have explored the most remote areas of the Galapagos Islands - but soon it will take just a click of a mouse to explore the pl…
Britain's Foreign Secretary has brushed aside an Israeli minister's allegation that anti-Israeli sentiment was growing in the Unit…
Leading characters in TV soaps are promoting unhealthy lifestyles with too much drinking, a poor diet and an almost total lack of …
The national council of the Boy Scouts of America has approved a plan to allow openly gay boys to join the organisation.
Two of Google's most senior executives have used a lecture in London to press their belief in the transparency of the internet and…
Professor Stephen Hawking has been turned into a comic book character for an illustrated series about his life.
The unveiling of a massive Lego model in Times Square has brought new meaning to the saying that everything is bigger in New York …
Uefa could impose partial stadium closures and 10-match bans for racism in European football after agreeing to toughen sanctions.
A man pretending to be South Korean pop star Psy has blagged his way into some of the biggest parties at the Cannes Film Festival,…
In a wide-ranging, impassioned speech to define US foreign policies on terrorism, President Barack Obama has outlined new policies…
The website of the charity Help For Heroes crashed as it was swamped with donations.
The family of Drummer Lee Rigby, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Woolwich, have said he would do "anything for anybody".
Alleged murderer Mark Bridger has accused a seven-year-old girl of lying about what she saw on the night her friend April Jones we…
A GP who used a secret camera inside his watch to record himself abusing female
patients has been jailed for 12 years.
The radicalisation of young British men - such as the suspects in the killing of a soldier in Woolwich - is a problem intelligence…
One of the two men who are suspected of hacking to death soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich was well-known locally as an Islamist activ…