Some called her a 'money grabbing whore' and 'poor little victim' after Sheffield United and Wales striker Ched Evans (pictured) was convicted of raping her at Caernarfon Crown Court last April.read
Financial Secretary to the Treasury David Gauke (pictured) hinted at broader reform, which could go further than Iain Duncan Smith's proposal to limit benefits for larger families.read
David Cameron is poised to order a single, wide-ranging judicial inquiry into child abuse allegation at the BBC, in the NHS, and in government. read
Stephanie Chibnall, 45, was jailed at Maidstone Crown Court (pictured) for abusing three young brothers, now aged nine, ten and 13, who had been in her care.read
Raja Aboutarik, 56, helped herself to £9,548 in housing benefit and £3,504 in council tax benefit for her flat in Notting Hill between May 2006 and May last year. read
Georgia Varley, 16, was killed instantly when she fell between the platform and the train during a night out to celebrate a friend’s 18th birthday party in Liverpool.read
Only around 35 per cent of Britons pop vitamins, compared with 41 per cent four years ago, according to the market analyst Mintel. read
Mounting evidence shows women’s bodies can react far differently than men’s to the same widely prescribed drugs. read
New research shows that ginger moggies are the top felines for cat owners as they're seen as friendly and lovable. Meanwhile white cats are seen as aloof and distant, tabbies are intolerant and black cats are unlucky and mysterious. read
Maddox Derkosh had 'no chance' of surviving after falling 11 feet into the dog pit at the Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium while his horrified parents Jason and Elizabeth Derkosh looked on helpless.read
Nicholas Levene, 48, was jailed for running a 'Ponzi' fraud scheme which he spent on private jets, super yachts, a £150,000-a-year box at Ascot and on hosting £10,000-a-day pheasant shoots.read
Britain's most senior tax official Lin Homer (pictured) made the admission as the Government launched a crackdown on companies that slash their tax bills through complex legal techniques.read
Less than half of diabetes patients are given nine basic checks by their GP which can reduce the risk of complications such as blindness, amputation or kidney disease.read
ALEX BRUMMER: The Living Wage advocated by Boris Johnson (pictured) will push up the cost of jobs in the private sector, shift people on to benefit, damage small businesses and add to public sector debt.read
Labour leader Ed Miliband wants the Living Wage - which today rose to £8.55 an hour in London and £7.45 in the rest of the country - to be part of Whitehall deals.read
Constable Rod Gellatly, 41, is thought to have 'turned the gun on himself' after arriving at Baird Street police station in Glasgow at work as normal yesterday morning.read
Christopher Docherty-Puncheon, 33, (bottom right) was on remand for another murder when he confessed to a cellmate that he had killed Robert Workman, (top right).read
Dale Cregan, 29, pictured, today pleaded not guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to the murders of Greater Manchester Police constables Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone. read
As the Government prepares to cap housing benefit allowances at £400 per week from April, local authorities in the capital are buying or renting houses in places like Manchester, Merthr Tydfil and Hull.read
Scott Reed, from Clanfield in Hampshire, started using his laptop on a table instead and three months his wife became pregnant with baby daughter Taryn.read
Clifford Sayers, 66, wants £25,000 from Baroness Chelwood, 89, (pictured with husband Tufton Beamish) whose war hero and MP husband Tufton Beamish took him on in Sussex 30 years ago.read
The patients' charter will also enshrine in law the need for patients and families to be consulted before a patient is put on an 'end of life' pathway.read
Soaring hospital and medical costs mean private medical insurers are desperately looking to find ways to slash costs. read
Janet Tracey, 63, was being treated in Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge when doctors issued not one but two DNR notices, apparently without her consent. She told her family staff 'wanted to get rid of her'.read
For almost 80 years, a small group of former servicemen in Warton, Staffordshire, has marched with pride along a road in their town to lay wreaths at a local war memorial on Remembrance Sunday.read
Mr Obama was joined on stage by rock star Bruce Springsteen (the pair are pictured), one of nearly 200 celebrities who answered an 11th-hour Democrat call to arms.read
The pair appeared together at a campaign rally in Madison, Wisconsin in a last-minute attempt to shore up the President's lead in the Midwestern swing state.read
Barack Obama's 14-year-old daughter Malia and Sasha, 11, have hardly been seen on the campaign trail in 2012 compared to four years ago (pictured in Colorado).read
With less than 48 hours until the result, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith breaks with the convention of British ministers not commenting on foreign elections to leap to the defence of the Republican challenger.read
Research, conducted across 36 countries outside the US, revealed 81 per cent were in favour of Obama, pictured, spending another four years in office.read
Little over two months since the last swimmer took to the water during the Paralympics, Zaha Hahid’s striking white building appears to be in a state of decay and a shadow of its former glory.read
The UK's biggest care home operators have racked up debts of £5bn through loans linked to offshore firms based as far away as the Cayman Islands.read
William Blything, 41, from Wavertree, Liverpool, (pictured) is accused of shouting abuse at QPR's Park Ji-Sung and Everton's Victor Anichebe during a game.read
The watchdog found that producers used 20 bleeps during the half-hour episode to block out offensive language. But it wasn't enough.read
The question topped a list of British dads' top-20 best-loved sayings, followed closely by 'money doesn't grow on trees'.read
The incredible shots are not computer-generated stills of an alien planet in a sci-fi film but were in fact captured from a Cessna light aircraft over Iceland.read
New book The Stalingrad Protocols gathers interviews with hundreds of veterans that Russia had deemed too graphic to publish after the Second World War because only heroism was lauded.read
Britain is in talks to set up a military base in the Arabian Gulf to deter Iran from attacking its neighbours. The plan would see RAF jets stationed permanently in the United Arab Emirates, according to Downing Street officials.read
The news raises the prospect that dozens of personal texts between David Cameron and Rebekah Brooks have been kept from inquiry into press standards.read
We are pretty firm about what we do — and don’t — like the taste of, and increasingly scientists can tell us why.read
This sharp-toothed sleuth can never be accused of taking a softly-softly approach to fighting crime. Janus, a police dog in the West Midlands force, is retiring aged nine and a half having secured a remarkable 440 arrests in the last four years.read
Samuel Horton, of Plymouth, Devon, pictured, was given the generous gift card by the Family Fund charity in order to buy an iPad to help him complete school homework.read
Former victim says the late DJ, pictured, molested her at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, while she was recovering after an operation in 1986.read
As he awaited his first big break on TV, Status Quo frontman Francios Rossi was approached by the presenter Jimmy Savile. To his shock, Savile said: 'Come and see me tarts.' read
Apple released both a new iPad mini and new fourth generation iPad on Friday - but queues around the world were shorter than expected. read
Apple's £269 iPad mini sold out online within hours - and a new analysis has found the gadget costs Apple just £117 to make. read
British car dealer Tom Hartley Jr (right) who sold the 1998 road car, said it had an unblemished history and had never been involved in a crash.read
These are just a few of the apparently ordinary things that millions of people in Britain have never experienced, according to research carried out by Ask Jeeves.read
The 15-strong group of English folk dancers from the respected Wild Hunt Bedlam Morris troupe were told to ‘stop making a din’ during a performance outside The White Lion pub in Warlingham, Surrey.read
Exasperated locals have been left waiting for hours and repeatedly been transferred to the wrong department because the strong accent has baffled the software. read
Defence minister Ehud Barak said Ashkenazi warned Benjamin Netanyahu (pictured) the army did not have the operational capability for a successful strike against Iran’s nuclear programme, an Israeli documentary shows.read
A mother otter clambers onto a motorboat in Tutka Bay, Alaska as the white underside of a killer whale chases after her. She wails after her baby is eaten by the huge predator.read
The New York state Board of Elections is preparing for the worst as they are releasing information about possible back-up scenarios for voting in the presidential election. read
Conservatives feared 'SEAL Team Six,' which debuted on the National Geographic Channel on Sunday, was an underhanded propaganda ploy by President Barack Obama's supporters. read
Gastric surgery is an effective weight-loss treatment for obese patients, but now scientists based in Sydney are warning such procedures could also cause bone loss.read
You might think playing Angry Birds and other games on your mobile phone is a mindless distraction and a waste of time - but new research suggests they could actually make you smarter.read
Jackson (pictured), whose real name is Albert English, admitted holding the child prisoner and sexually assaulting him in his flat in Oldbury, West Midlands.read
Chemotherapy drugs target and kill all cells in the process of replicating - cancerous or not - causing hair-loss, pain and a weakened immune system.read
The teenager was buried under rubble in the town of Deraa, another civilian victim of the bitter internal fighting between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and the militant Islamist groups.read
Probiotic yoghurt fans have yet another reason to tuck in to a pot - the dairy snack is good for the heart, according to researchers from McGill University in Canada.read
Rob Wright, from North Tyneside, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in April. He died last week, just three months after his sons Zack and Owen were born.read
Four-year-old Ollie was enjoying a walk with owner Ian Farquhar, 47, from Dundee, when the Harris hawk - which was being trained - swooped and attacked him.read
In a tradition that traces its roots to the reign of Mary I and the 1605 Gunpowder plot, the streets of Lewes in East Sussex were turned into a procession of flame this evening as part of the town's annual Bonfire Night celebrations. Hundreds of Lewes residents donned period costumes and carried flaming crosses and torches through the streets as thousands looked on. It is just one of many spectacular events up and down the country as colourful fireworks illuminated the night sky. But anyone heading out to enjoy the pyrotechnics is advised to wrap up warm - forecasters say it will be the coldest November 5 since 1998 with temperatures not expected to rise above 9C. Parts of Essex, Wales and the Westcountry were left disappointed, however, as torrential rain forced the cancellation of planned Guy Fawkes Night events.read
The first series of Downton was set between 1912 and 1914, before it moved to 1916 and 1918 for the second series and most recently the 1920s in the third season of the show, which ended with an exciting finale on Sunday night.read
Almost 600,000 people took part in trials and studies last year, fuelled by a growing interest in medical developments. It has lead to breakthroughs in meningitis vaccines and treating cancer and stroke patients.read
Emma Breeze (centre) found a needle in a mobile like the one pictured (left) which she bought from Mothercare's Festival Park store in Stoke-On-Trent for son William (right).read
A quick-thinking man sprinted to catch his baby granddaughter after the youngster was thrown from a first floor apartment in the Spanish city of León by her hysterical mother.read
A small plane careened into an SUV at an airport in Dallas, Texas, on Saturday, injuring the driver of the car, who was traveling on a privately owned road near the airport. read
The Liberal Democrat leader says he has been inundated with complaints from working parents about the rising costs of childcare.read
The other day I did something I should warn other working parents never, ever to try. I whipped out a calculator and totted up the entire amount that childcare has cost me says SHONA SIBARY.read
New research suggests timekeeping in the brain is decentralised, with different neural circuits having their own timing mechanisms for specific activities. read
Hungry Mark Hunter prepared to take his second spoonful of cereal at home in London, when a dark shape bobbed to the surface and it turned out to be a dead mouse. read
Steve Paddon, 32, was sent a parking fine for temporarily stopping on double yellow lines while he helped his father-in-law Mick White, 75, whose mobility scooter had become stuck in a pothole in Poole, Dorset.read
Professor Uta Frith says women are being held back by the feeling that they have to spend as much time as possible looking after their families and should avail themselves of alternatives.read
Women aged between 25 and 34 are more stressed than anyone else in Britain thanks to the pressure of combining career with young children. read
John Key is accused of labeling the former England captain as 'thick as bat s**t' on a recent visit to a school in Auckland.read
Stephen Dean (left), 55, of Winterbourne, Kent, was handed a three-month suspended sentence after the dog attacked Anne Sage and daughter Emma, 18, in Joan Beech Woods, Faversham.read
The three teenagers arrested in connection with the murder of off-duty soldier David Collins, 19, hid their faces as they arrived at court in the town of Paralimni today.read
Amanda Jencsik claimed in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan earlier this year that she feared for her life during an abusive four-month relationship in John Patrick Shanley.read
Callum Hilton (left) was thrown 20ft through the air after being hit as he crossed a road with his cousin and friends in Bury, Greater Manchester, on Saturday.read
Staff at JFS in Kenton, North West London, have had to issue a four-page list of corrections to the 300 pupils using the book to prepare for their exam.read
Belfast solicitor Paul Gallen, 26, a previous winner of the popular TV word game Countdown, held his head in his hands in relief as he won the coveted title in a nail-biting three game final in London yesterday. read
It was in 1889 that a juicy sex scandal broke involving rent boys, aristocrats and a possible royal connection. The story shocked Victorian society, writes Simon Parke.read
She scaled 8.5 metre towers in full uniform, sprinted up 86 flights of stairs and beat 5,000 other hopefuls to be named the World's Toughest Firefighter.read
Turkish artist Sakir Gökçebağ used hundreds of toilet rolls in creating his paper installations sprawled across the walls of a gallery in Germany.read
Liverpool scientists found warmer temperatures cause greater reduction in the adult sizes of aquatic animals than in land-dwellers.read
Remains of the knight (pictured) buried at Norton Priory, in Cheshire, show that he died after being slashed in the back, a wound unlikely to have been incurred in battle when he would have worn armour.read
David Byrne, from Cannock, Staffordshire, said he was subject to a 'witch-hunt' for adding clouds in the sky, leading to his disqualification for employing excessive digital manipulation.read
The Nevada couple are the legal guardians of their 32-year-old daughter, who was living in a Reno group home when she wandered away from it and became pregnant 13 weeks ago.read
The great ape, was attacked by sick locals who were fed up with her roaming around an oil plantation in Borneo, Indonesia. read
Schoolboy Joe Compton has returned home after a month in hospital (right). He was treated for a horrendous burns to his neck (pictured left), a cardiac arrest and electric shock after being struck by the lighning bolt outside Dorcan Academy in Swindon.read
Bishop's Cleeve Parish Council have refused permission for the community's annual Christmas switch-on which attracts several hundred people every year (pictured).read
Vanessa Hermione Greening, 49, lost her temper with the child as he watched other pupils perform at a high school in Tipton, in the West Midlands.read
'Shucks Mary Lou. We've been here over a week now. Did you have to say: "Get lost, Buster. We're voting Obama?"'read
Spencer Tunick, 45, of New York, took the eerie photos in the early morning at the Festival de Calacas (Festival of Skeletons) in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.read
University of Vienna researchers found Figaro fashions wooden ‘rakes’ out of beams and sticks and uses them inch pieces of food within reach.read
Firefighters tackled the huge blaze which broke out just before 7am this morning in Birmingham. Neighbours desperately tried to save the residents after spotting the front door of the house engulfed in flames.read
The Romanian National Tourist Office plans to promote the Royal Family's assumed link to Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (pictured right with Prince Charles left).read
In a humiliating process which could end with the former president being jailed, Mr Sarkozy has been summoned to a court in Bordeaux.read
Reaching orgasm remains elusive for nearly 30 per cent of women, but a new ad hoc treatment currently under trial at Monash University in Australia, may solve the problem.read
People who lost around a stone in weight reported a significant improvement in sleep quality, say researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the U.S.read
Confused by Sat-Nav instruction, the woman drove onto the Croydon Tramlink line at Sandilands in the rush hour, hitting two bollards before her car became stuck in the tracks.read