Thirteen years after a young model's body was found at the bottom of a 180 foot cliff in Sydney, her British boyfriend has been convicted of her murder.
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Supporters of Hojatoleslam Moqtada al-Sadr, the anti-American cleric, burnt an effigy of George Bush in Baghdad yesterday and gave warning of a return to armed resistance if parliament approves a deal that will allow US forces to remain in Iraq for three more years.
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Electric fencing, sonic guns and even armed mercenaries are being offered as the first line of defence for ships at risk in pirate-infested waters.
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There are barely 48 hours to go before the release of perhaps the most widely anticipated album in rock music history. Yet its creator — Axl Rose — is nowhere to be found.
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Ever since freelance booty-hunters spotted the vulnerability of Homeric-age galleys forging trade routes in the Mediterranean, pirates have been a scourge of the high seas.
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“I'm going to ask the three executives here to raise their hand if they flew here commercial,” said Congressman Brad Sherman. No one stirred at the table where the chiefs of America's big three carmakers had gathered to beg for another $25 billion ($£17 billion) bailout of their stricken firms.
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After a week of heated debate, Tibetan exiles have decided not to resume calls for independence despite growing frustration among the young at the failure of the Dalai Lama's efforts to achieve autonomy within China.
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Armed men from different Somali factions are descending on the country's pirate coast, raising fears that a battle is looming over millions of pounds in ransom cash being demanded for the captured supertanker Sirius Star.
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A retired Marine general and former Nato commander is emerging as a leading contender to become Barack Obama’s national security adviser, the most important foreign policy post in the White House.
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When John Sergeant thrust his microphone in front of wary politicians his catchphrase was “give me ten seconds”. But Britain’s favourite “dancing pig” can expect considerably longer in the spotlight when he finally waltzes off screen tonight.
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Sir Bernard Lovell, the astronomer, has hinted that the KGB tried to tempt him into defecting to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.
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Sissinghurst has been a family house since 1930 when my grandmother, the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, and my grandfather, Harold Nicolson, the historian and biographer, rescued the house and garden from ruin.
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Sir Bernard Lovell, the astronomer, has hinted that the KGB tried to tempt him into defecting to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.
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Every secondary school and college should have a sexual health clinic on site to offer pupils advice on contraception, pregnancy tests and screening for sexually transmitted disease, according to a report commissioned by the Government.
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London Women exposed to hairspray during the early stages of pregnancy are more than twice as likely to give birth to a son with a serious genital defect, researchers say. A study by Imperial College London found that if expectant mothers come into contact with the spray during their first trimester they are more likely to have a son with hypospadias, a condition where the urinary opening is on the underside of the penis. Researchers suggest that hairspray and hypospadias may be linked because of chemicals in the aerosol known as phthalates.
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London A tanker captain was jailed after being found drunk at the wheel of a ship laden with thousands of tonnes of potentially explosive chemicals. Captain Gonchar Volodymyr, 53, was sailing the Elousa Trikoukiotisa up the Thames when it was noticed that he appeared drunk. Police boarded the vessel at Dagenham Dock and found the Ukrainian to be over the legal limit of alcohol for seafarers. At Snaresbrook Crown Court, East London, Volodymyr was sentenced to two months in jail after admitting being the master of a ship while being over the alcohol limit.
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Alan McIntyre, 36, worked at Bank of Scotland, later HBOS, for 19 years before he was made redundant in September. He had been there since he left school at 17 and worked his way up to become an underwriter at the company’s Edinburgh branch.
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It could be said that a career as an England cricketer is the perfect grounding for a lifetime of gambling. For if, like me, you have limited resources, time, patience and discipline, there is only one way to approach betting – expect to lose.
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Britain would face an even more severe recession without the multi-billion-pound tax cut and spending package that will be unveiled on Monday, Gordon Brown said yesterday.
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Overbearing health and safety regulations are hampering the ability of the National Trust to encourage more people to venture outdoors for walking or to visit country houses.
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We have these sporadic fussing-sessions over the BBC because the BBC isn’t simply a thing that makes TV shows. It is – in design, if not always in practice – responsible for analysing, and then reflecting back, Britain as a whole. And if we don’t like what it reflects back, we often attack the BBC when we are, underneath it all, taking issue with an entire cultural climate.
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The markets are crumbling, job security is a thing of the past and your house is probably worth less than you paid for it. But for thousands of Britons this weekend, the promise of economic salvation could well lie at the end of a racetrack.
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Like all drivers, I have no problem whatsoever with cyclists as long as they stay in their place – the pavement. I realise, by the way, that this is not a reasonable view. But since when was the car a place where reason held sway? We all, to some extent, think of the road as our own, and we are all quite badly wrong about that.
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A gang leader has been ordered to pay back ÂŁ26 million of the money that he stole from HM Revenue & Customs, or spend a further ten years in prison.
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London Spike Milligan’s daughter, Sile, has claimed that memorabilia owned by the late comedian has been put up for sale without the knowledge of his four children. Shelagh, the widow of the comic who died in 2002, claims that she has no room for the collection, which is being auctioned on Tuesday at Bonhams in Knightsbridge. It includes radio skits, notes from the Prince of Wales and a grand piano.
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