Five people have been arrested in connection with the murder of Shakilus Townsend.

Bereaved families and survivors gathered for a memorial service on the 20th anniversary of the Piper Alpha tragedy.

David Miliband has warned that the crisis in Zimbabwe risks "infecting" the whole of southern Africa.

Three years after four bombs ripped through London's public transport network, killing 52 innocent people, survivors and relatives of victims are to remember the attacks on Monday.

Fuel duty would be slashed to help hard-pressed families deal with soaring prices, under radical Tory plans.

A hospital has been referred to health watchdogs amid concerns it is giving too many liver transplants to foreigners.

A new class of so-called "super bishop" is to be proposed as a way of saving the Church of England from a damaging split over women bishops, it has been disclosed.

The architect of the Government's NHS reforms has defended the controversial plan for polyclinics, insisting no GP surgeries will close as a result of the new centres.

Children should be forced to stay on school grounds at lunchtime in a bid to stop them eating junk food, a Government minister has said.

A man arrested in connection with the murders of two French students has been released, Scotland Yard said.

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