Town halls were last night ordered to stop threatening families with £2,500 fines and criminal convictions for overloading their bins. Ministers accused them o... read more
Agnes Stanley, 89, drowned on Sunday when floodwaters rose inside her home She was found by a neighbor floating in about four feet of water after she insisted... read more
For modern men sick of the daily grind, it may seem like the perfect solution. But stepping back from work to let your wife be the main breadwinner may not be q... read more
Australian mother has disappeared after travelling to Iraq to find her children The anonymous woman, known as Ms Alfarsi, travelled to Middle East last year ... read more
Dame Vera Lynn is backing a bid to save the White Cliffs of Dover from developers For Second World War troops far from home, her voice evoked images of the fam... read more
A business tycoon who transformed Weetabix into the one of the world’s best loved breakfasts left a £42million fortune to his wife and family. Sir Richar... read more
Robert Harris, who wrote Pompeii, Engima and Fatherland, said slick television programmes are so easily available that they shove novels out of the limelight N... read more
Jenna Burleigh’s remains were transported more than 100 miles from Jenkintown to Paupack Township in a Lyft car The suspect accused of murdering Jenna Bu... read more
Customer complaints about almost every financial product, from current accounts to credit cards and PPI, have surged, official figures show. The financial ombud... read more
Paige Hankee, 10, was mauled by a three-legged dog in a Perth park on Sunday The young girl had asked the dog’s owner if she could pat him before the atta... read more
People living in Sydney’s most exclusive eastern suburbs will be the target of ramped up drug testing, aimed at catching high-flying cocaine users. Roadsi... read more
A devastated homeowner who rented her Parisian studio apartment on Airbnb returned to find it reduced to a ‘squat’ strewn with faeces, urine and rub... read more
The one-year-old dog was playing outside her owner’s Lockyer Valley home The shooter would have only been one to three metres away when it happened Seven ... read more
A man known only as ‘Nick’ pocketed £50,000 as a victim of crime in the case The man has not had to repay the thousands, despite his claims being... read more
One person has been injured after two trucks side-swiped each other Tuesday The incident occurred on Hunter Road, Paisley in South Australia around 5am A truck ... read more
Kerry Brocklebank pictured smiling outside court after she was cleared of sexual assault A health spa owner acquitted of sexually assaulting a customer by givin... read more
With summer just around the corner and swimwear season inching ever closer, many will be thinking of shifting a few pesky kilos before the weather heats up. Whi... read more
Researchers have discovered that a 192-year series of volcanic eruptions in Antarctica coincided with accelerated deglaciation 17,700 years ago. Researchers f... read more
One in 79 Britons over the age of 21 is now a millionaire thanks to the relentless rise of property prices. The number is up from one in 84 last year and is the... read more
Virgin Atlantic has become the first airline in Europe to offer Wi-Fi across its entire fleet. It means that its customers can remain connected across flights t... read more
Researchers analyzing nearly 7.5 years of observations collected by NASA’s Fermi space telescope have spotted thousands of distant flares known as gamma ray b... read more
British foreign aid is being used to train the Burmese army, which is accused of the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of Rohingya Muslims. The country is facing a U... read more