The 64th annual ceremony took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.read
Jeremy Forrest, 30, who has fled with Megan Stammers, 15, blogged that he had a 'moral dilemma', adding: 'How do we, and how should we, define what is right or wrong?'read
In an interview on Whitehall this morning the Tory Chief Whip apologised again for his foul-mouthed tirade on Downing Street but denied the official police report on the incident was truthful.read
The Deputy Prime Minister (pictured) said the ‘top 10 per cent’ – around 3million earning more than £50,500 – should brace themselves for new levies.read
The 31-year-old Chelsea captain, accused the FA of making his position 'untenable' ahead of today's hearing over the incident with QPR’s Anton Ferdinand.read
Errol Damelin and Jonty Hurwitz, the two founders of payday loans firm Wonga, live in a beautiful six-bedroom house in North London (pictured) and £2million five-bedroom West Sussex home respectively.read
Maurice Wallace told of his fury that daughter Lynette Pearce failed to tell her parents about the baby and that Army officials 'could not be bothered' to contact them.read
Rioting broke out at 11pm last night at the Foxconn Technology factory in the city of Taiyuan in northern China with reports claiming the trouble began after a security guard 'hit an employee'.read
A Reddit message board was explicitly created for users to ogle photos that were taken without the subjects' knowledge. Most focus on the buttocks or breasts of non-consenting women going about their daily lives. read
A match between two church sides in the West Midlands Christian football league set up to promote peace and understanding ended in a mass brawl after a row over a penalty.read
Britain contributes to a European 'development aid' budget which spends half its funds on middle and higher-income nations such as Brazil, Iceland and Barbados.read
Five-year-old Charlotte Garside (pictured), from Withernsea, East Yorkshire, is just 68cm tall and smaller than her favourite teddy, but her parents says she has a massive personality.read
Girls as young as nine were recorded being abused with thousands of sick videos and still images shared among the individuals.read
As lethal bath salts continue to take young lives, researchers have discovered the shocking strength of a key ingredient that leaves users struggling with the after effects for days. read
One in five of the gay population also show signs of dependency on drugs or alcohol, it has been claimed.read
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The secret experiments, which took place on a pontoon off the coast of the Isle of Lewis, were part of Britain's nascent biological warfare programme. read
The Tory London Mayor today set out 20 reasons why everyone, and not just Conservatives, should be grateful that Mr Clegg ‘laid down his political life’ to form a government.read
Twice over the past year and a half, Cleve Foster has come within moments of being escorted into Texas' execution chamber, only to be told the U.S. Supreme Court had halted his scheduled punishment.read
People around the world have queued for days to get their hands on Apple's new iPhone5. So if you saw one just lying on the floor would you pick it up? If a video made by a team of Dutch pranksters is anything to go by the answer is yes.read
A new study has revealed just how lazy we are when it comes to digital security - as nearly one in nine of us goes for '1234'.read
A jab that allows damaged hearts to mend themselves and could be given by paramedics in the back of ambulances is being developed at a British university. read
The bleak scenes were captured as part of a series called No Life Guard On Duty of pools at motels across the American South. The contrast between the beautiful locations from Panama City Beach to Victorville, California and the grimy, empty pools is striking. read
A witness said he heard a sound 'like three or four gunshots' at the London park, before seeing the woman lying face down. Meanwhile walkers out in Westminster were battered by the rain.read
The Business Secretary will unveil details of Treasury plans to sponsor a new bank which is to offer credit through smaller providers such as Handelsbanken, the Co-Op and the Aldermore.read
The ‘pension for property’ plan aims to let those approaching retirement borrow against the lump sum payment in their pension to underwrite the mortgages of young people.read
The Bishop of Shrewsbury, the Rt Rev Mark Davies, was addressing the congregation at St James the Great RC Church, close to the scene of the tragedy in Hattersley, Greater Manchester.read
The survey of 2,000 adults was commissioned by electrical goods firm Philips, which said it takes an average eight and a half minutes to make and eat breakfast.read
The court in Chengdu, China, jailed former police chief Wang Lijun after finding him guilty on four charges, including seeking to cover up the November 2011 murder of a British businessman, Neil Heywood.read
French reporter Annick Cojean gathered horrific accounts from the girls forced into the former Libyan dictator's (pictured) harem for the book published last week.read
The HGV driver was catapulted from his cab when a an oncoming lorry swerved into his path on a road in Russia. He stumbles away from the scene and gazes in disbelief at the wreckage.read
In an interview Marine Le Pen (pictured) called not just for a ban on the wearing of Islamic veils in public, but also the kippah – the head covering often work by Orthodox Jews. read
A teenage boy in Blackpool, Lancashire, has been caught using his bedroom as an illegal tattoo parlour to ink his friends, after advertising his services on Facebook. The 15-year-old had attempted to sterilise the needles using household Dettol, hand gel and Savlon cream.read
Just five per cent of the students who enter Britain each year go to a university rated in the top ten. Around one in eight goes to one of the top 24 Russell group universities. read
In a report submitted to the parliamentary commission on banking standards the Church argues that banking employees with high moral values are being encouraged to leave them at the office door. read
Nick Clegg clearly suffered when the spoof musical version of his apology for breaking his promise not to raise university fees was played on the Andrew Marr show.read
More than nine in ten health service managers fear that the problem of so-called bed-blocking is getting worse following financial cuts.read
The former foreign secretary (pictured) paints an unhappy picture of Mr Brown as unfit for high office in the second instalment of his memoirs, serialised in the Daily Mail.read
Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood faces questions about his role because he worked for three years at Morgan Stanley, which stands to gain tens of millions from brokering the merger.read
Latest figures reveal Tasers were deployed at least 4,461 times last year compared with 3,219 times in 2010, an increase of almost 40 per cent.read
Patrick Sandeman, 53, was declared dead at the scene of the accident at Sibson airfield, near Peterborough, after plummeting before dozens of horrified onlookers on Saturday afternoon. read
The Communities Secretary said he was 'surprised' that councils had opposed Government plans to allow homeowners to build out as far as 26ft without the need for planning permission.read
Sergeant Major Mike Booley, 46, who became a close friend of Prince Harry, has told an Employment Appeals Tribunal that a string of promises were broken over his career.read
Outdated technology, ten times more expensive than that used in the US, means UK offenders are unmonitored when not under curfew at home, says the think-tank Policy Exchange.read
She is taking Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, to the High Court claiming than even though she did not give birth to her son she is entitled to paid leave to look after him.read
Fifty-one-year-old Deborah Cregan's occupation was listed as 'police officer (retired)' on her 2002 marriage certificate to Dale Cregan's (pictured) father. The pair were married in Didsbury, Greater Manchester.read
New Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps posed as Michael Green, a 'multi-million-dollar web marketer' at an internet conference in a Las Vegas casino in 2004.read
A mass cull is under way among farmers who can no longer afford to feed their animals, according to the National Pig Association.read
Camden, New Jersey, one of the nation's poorest and most crime-ridden cities, is on the verge of dismantling its police department and starting anew with a force run by the county government.read
The skeletons excavated in Cladh Hallan are said to be the first evidence that Britons preserved their dead using mummification.read
The early love letters, school papers and dramatic works of Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief, reveal a romantic young man beginning to show signs of anti-Semitism and egotistical and controlling behavior. read
Grant Paul, who develops software for Apple's iOS operating system, posted photos on his Twitter page of a 'jailbroken' iPhone 5, which allows him to install non-Apple-approved software.read
Dissatisfied customers took to message boards dedicated to Apple products, lamenting slight yet pesky scuffs near the antenna markers on the side of the device, especially in the black version of iPhone 5. read
Just under 3,000 British consumers and a panel of 39 'key influencers', including chart acts Rizzle Kicks and Plan B and actor David Harewood, ranked a shortlist of 1,200 brands from more than 10,000 initially considered.read
Facebook has agreed to turn off a feature on its site which uses information gleaned from tagged photos to make suggestions about future photos.read
Young sufferers living near traffic-laden streets are also more likely to develop severe asthma and be hospitalised because of their condition, according to research at the University of Southern California. read
While snakes with two heads alongside each other have been found in the wild before, this one has a head on each end of its body - and they appear to take shifts on which one is in control.read
A crowd of just over 200 people stripped off and ran into the sea at sunrise for The North East Skinny Dip in Druridge Bay, Northumberland, but failed to break the record. read
Nine of the fishing boat's crew were rescued by coast guards in Japan (pictured helping survivors) after the tuna fishing boat crashed with a much-larger cargo ship, 900 kilometres east of Sendai.read
Emergency crews used cherrypickers to rescue dozens of people, most of them international tourists, trapped in two of the capital's monorail units that came to a halt.read
The billionaire F1 boss, pictured with the former FIA president, admitted he later apologised to his friend and former business partner.read
The dead were members of a team which was hit while preparing to climb to the top of the 26,760ft Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal.read
A new study of cave art across France - in which animals appear to have multiple limbs, heads and tails - has found that the paintings are actually primitive attempts at animation.read
Beachgoers are being warned to think again before taking a plunge - after tests revealed high levels of raw sewage are spilling into the sea across England and Wales. Some beach resorts recorded the worst bathing quality water standards for more than a decade.read
In a heartwarming tale of reunion this 15-year-old white is to be returned home to its family after becoming separated from them in the midst of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.read
A father's amazing project to send his son's favourite toy to the edge of space has become a YouTube hit. Stanley the toy train was sent 18 miles above the earth attached to a weather balloon.read
South African heavyweight Corrie Sanders, who beat Wladimir Klitschko to win the WBO world title in 2003, has been shot dead during a restaurant robbery in his native country.read
Captain America driving in a canon, a giant chicken and egg, and a Baywatch speedboat were among the creations in the Red Bull Soapbox Race in Poland.read
The UK-based Cloud Appreciation Society (CAS) is lobbying for the cloud (pictured in Perthshire, Scotland) to be formally recognised by the World Meteorological Organisation and be included in the International Cloud Atlas, after it was first spotted in Iowa in 2006.read
The 'Montreal Signe Ode a la Vie' or Ode to Life light show by Canadian company Moment Factory illuminated Gaudi's most famous building during the four-day festival, which ends tomorrow.read
Britain's most elusive bird of prey was captured by photographer Danny Green on a river in Worcestershire.read
Forty-nine contestants from around the world worked with body paint, prosthetics and wigs to turn their models into moving works of art in Auckland, New Zealand.read
More than 100 men in a variety of colourful costumes gathered in Wittersdorf, near, Mulhouse, France, for the European Beard and Moustache Championships.read
Photographer John Allan Faier has spent the last seven years photographing the homes of the dead, mausoleums filled with the remains of Christians long gone from this world. read