Sue Radford, 37, from Morecambe, Lancs, now has nine sons and seven daughters since welcoming little Casper into the world last month - after a 16-minute labour.read
Retail behemoth Amazon is slashing its prices by up to 70 per cent while Apple has even cut the cost of an iPad as they bring the American post-Thanksgiving shopping extravaganza to the UK.read
In a chilling parallel to Britain, where girls have been lured into sex-for-sale rings, Dutch pimps search out girls at school gates and in cafes, posing as ‘boyfriends’.read
According to a provocative new book, Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye, it seems that dedicated followers of flossing could actually be wasting their time. read
Boy hit by a Nissan 4X4 at a farm near Fersfield between Diss and Kenninghall in Norfolk at around 4pm yesterday. Paramedics battled to save the child's life but he was pronounced dead at the scene. read
Results showed that almost 20 per cent of those seeking treatment for the unfortunate problem lived in the South East of England, a higher percentage than any other region, with the leading town being Westminster.read
John Ward, 19, and girlfriend Kelly Horner, 23, from Beverley, East Yorkshire, did not get help for five hours. The baby girl had also suffered a bite from Ward and two unexplained broken legs.read
Tory Dominic Grieve is under growing pressure as senior colleagues say he seems determined to be unpopular and warn it is 'time we got rid of him'.read
David Martin, 74, (pictured) found the note attached to the bird remains in the chimney of his Surrey home. Experts at GCHQ have been unable to crack the code and say its secrets may never be known.read
Scotland Yard said it was believed that the man might have a knife as officers shut down part of the road, near the heart of Westminster in central London.read
The technology has echoes of the Hollywood film Minority Report, where people are punished for crimes they are predicted to commit, rather than after committing a crime.read
Shannon Deakin, of Hoyland, South Yorkshire, told GP she was suffering 'knife-like' pains along her thigh but doctor said it was infection, an inquest in Sheffield Coroner's Court was told yesterday. read
Lassania Aslam, 17, suffered five epileptic fits in the space of just 24 hours at The Whittington Hospital in Archway, north London. Nurses Caroline O'Rourke and Mary Subaste face being struck off by the Nurse and Midwifery Council panel which is sitting in London today.read
Victor Knight, from Bampton, Devon, had an affair with Jane Hadley-Piggin after telling her he lived next door to Johnny Depp, pictured, and went shooting with Eric Clapton.read
Model Heather Weir and her footballer boyfriend Jamie Ness could not understand why their normally active dog wanted to sleep all day in their new home in Cheshire.read
The man's 4x4 was washed down a stream by the flood water before becoming wedged against a foot bridge in the village of Chew Stoke near Bristol.read
A blind man has been able to read braille with his eyes rather than by touch using a retina implant (pictured), according to scientists based in California.read
In news that will cheer bored office workers and pupils, it is not just geniuses who find inspiration in our imagination. Scientists have found we could all benefit from a spot of daydreaming.read
Crunch Brussels summit could drag on until Sunday as conflicting demands from 27 EU leaders mean hopes of reaching a deal are fading fast.read
David Cameron warned he is overseeing the 'politicisation' of the honours system after giving knighthoods to MPs who lost government jobs.read
Owners are getting their own back on their naughty pets by posting their pictures in a 'dogshaming' gallery on the internet.read
While men were responsible for the greater number of accidents reported, women played their part by driving in high heels. read
New research has found that although it may be better for your liver, alcohol-free wine is certainly not better for your wallet.read
The rising number of children falling from playground equipment is partly fuelled by parents' growing use of smartphones and BlackBerries, say experts.read
Ian Poulton, 33, was sentenced to five years in jail for intent to cause fear of violence after a sex toy carried in his trousers was mistaken for a handgun in Telford, Shropshire in May this year.read
By 2030 the average fuel bill will rise from £1,249 to £1,427 a year, according to official figures. The Government says that without the measures bills would rise even higher.read
The tree, in the Kent resort of Herne Bay, was mocked as 'shocking' and 'atrocious' by residents and business owners after Gareth Gates (inset) and Toyah Wilcox switched on the lights last week.read
The Tropical Island Resort in Krausnick, south of Berlin also boasts the largest indoor pool, 50,000-plant forest and enough space to fly a hot air balloon inside.read
Hancock's Group, including Hancock's Cash and Carry, confirmed sale yesterday. The empire includes 18 depots across the country and had sales of £100 million last year. read
Saudi Arabian women are being monitored by an electronic system at airports that notifies their male 'guardians' by text when they try to leave the country.read
Greedy landlord Adrian Callen, 57, has been jailed for six months after claiming £73,500 in benefits while building a £1 million property portfolio of ten homes.read
They are often considered a more spindly counterpart to their meat-eating friends. But it seems vegetarians might have the last laugh when it comes to the bedroom, an American study says. read
American experts have found there could be a scientific reason why a sneaky treat always tastes just that bit better. read
Factors such as a demanding job, nasty boss and poor job security are as bad for your mental health as being out of work, say scientists from Australian National University.read
Ashley Mills, from Hutton, Essex, (right) was with his brother Bradley (left) and is believed to be one of the fans wattacked outside a pub in Rome by a group of masked assailants. read
Last year Gary Cooper, 50, donned a Santa suit to greet passers-by and spent £30 of his benefits on a tree, tinsel and stocking for the bus shelter near Penarth, South Wales.read
Heartbroken Bob Baker, 75, of Southampton, gassed himself in the same bed where his wife had died just months earlier after struggling to cope following the break-in.read
Grandmother-of-five Enid Sugden said she has lived at her cottage in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, for 50 years and never had a problem with post before. read
The three shih-tzus had been neglected for six months, and a German Shepherd also found at Pauline Kinghorn's home in Northumberland had to be put down by the RSPCA.read
The opulent 'Fiore di Cristallo' kitchen, complete with crystal chandeliers and worktops, costs £1m and was unveiled by chef Aldo Zilli (inset) in Mayfair last night.read
Sir Les Ebdon, head of the Office for Fair Access, claims schools and parents put pressure on pupils to go to university when other courses might be better suited.read
Police arrested Rachel Buffet, pictured, the ex-fiance of a stage actor charged with beheading a neighbor, scattering his body parts in a park in Los Angeles.read
Peter Cole, of Abridge, Essex, hit Ambrose Skingle, 86, in Theydon Bois while driving his red Fiat. He was jailed for 18 months by judge Anthony Goldstaub (pictured).read
Crime-hit supermarket chain Iceland has resorted to using 'lamb saver boxes', pictured, which trigger an alarm if a shoplifter attempts to leave the store with meat products without paying.read
The elves will help shoppers with almost everything, whether it's finding the perfect present, helping carry your bags, flagging down a taxi or gift-wrapping your purchases.read
The distance - which would put many adults to shame - is made of 14,208 steps. Perhaps less surprisingly, it also includes 102 falls.read
Researchers found common mistakes include the mispronunciation of the Greek dip Tzatziki and the Italian ham prosciutto.read
Angel of the Meadows murder: The unknown woman, inset, found on a Manchester building site may be from Tanzania, East Africa, say police.read
Rachel Turner (left) and Diane Davies (centre) met Derick Crawford (right), who is charged with raping them in separate attacks on Barbados, but both insist he is not their assailant.read
A set of 1914 pictures, from a collection at the Albert Kahn Museum in Paris, paints a vivid picture of everyday life in the French capital including the original Moulin Rouge, left.read
Researchers found there wasn’t a single man who rated his partner as perfect. And of the 2,000 chaps quizzed, four out of five said they liked it that way. read
British experts have named the notorious Dukan diet, which Carole Middleton is said to be a fan of, as this year’s worst offender – for the third year in a row.read
After dying at the earlier this year, researchers believe they may be able to resurrect the Pinta Island subspecies of Lonesome George, left.read
Thiago Lima dos Santos (right) and Lucas de Lim Alves (left) became friends at the Joao Pinto Bandeira college, Sao Mateus, Brazil unaware that their bond was more than just friendship.read
The Lacock Cup, dating back to the 1400s, stands at just a few inches high and has been described as one of the best-preserved specimens of its kind by experts. It has been used by generations of worshippers in Wiltshire.read
Experts said the trend is being fuelled by the fact that more women are delaying motherhood to concentrate on their careers.read
Kelly Nield, of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, suffered the injuries at the Mainetti factory in Holywell, Flintshire, which manufactures and recycles coat hangers for supermarkets.read
The Ofsted breakdown, based on returns from councils and voluntary adoption agencies, gave the same figure as Whitehall for the number of children adopted from the care system last year – 3,450.read
Frank Jones, 74, grew cannabis worth £12,000 at his home in Barnsley to pay for his son's drugs rehabilitation programme, a court was told.read
Lord Freud, a former investment banker, said the welfare system is so complicated that many claimants have no idea which benefits they would keep if they found work.read
Ten per cent of England's NHS hospitals and 15 per cent of care homes failed to meet standards on treating patients with dignity and respect, a watchdog found.read
15-year-old Jasmine has had a number of behavioural issues, and the last straw for her parents came when she let a boy into her house in the middle of the night.read
Only five local authorities have taken advantage of a £250million government scheme to bring back full weekly bin collections, it was revealed this week.read
Christa and Brian Caponi are in mourning after their beloved 30lbs turkey Tom was shot with a bow and arrow at their six acre estate in Santa Rosa, Florida.read
Tory MP Nick Herbert called for decisive action to ‘end the writ of the European Court’ after the UK's bitter row with Strasbourg over votes for inmates flared up.read
The 46-year-old former world heavyweight champion announced the creation of the Mike Tyson Cares Foundation yesterday. read
Billionaire Miami real estate tycoon Jeffrey Soffer, above right, escaped alive form a Thanksgiving helicopter crash at the luxury Baker's Bay resort in the Bahamas yesterday. read
Campaigners from the Hacked Off group, which wants curbs on the media, urged David Cameron this week to hold cross-party talks before giving a firm response to the judge’s recommendations.read
Christopher Weatherhead, 22, from Northampton is accused of masterminding cyber hacking attacks on companies including PayPal and Visa costing them millions.read
New research has revealed that 74 per cent of men bend the truth on a first date in order to make a good first impression.read
Chris Grayling is considering an option where anyone sentenced to five years or more are stripped of their right to vote forever, subject to a right of appeal.read
The exclusive 15,500-acre Yellowstone Club in Montana, comes with all that is needed for a first-class ski vacation, including eight lavish bedrooms, stunning views and ex-Secret Service agents guarding the members' privacy. read
Vasily Makeyev, 13, was found living alone in a filthy cowshed in Russia. The boy was naked, almost blind and barely able to communicate when he was discovered. read
Callum James, who suffered from autism and ADHD, was discovered by his mother in his bedroom in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. read
A new 10 point guide to modern dining manners has been released by etiquette experts Debrett's. The guidelines take into account modern eating habits.read
A new study has revealed Britain's top 20 biggest regrets and the things we would most like to do in our lifetime. read
Fabio Smith, nine, lost the skin off his left foot and his family feared it would have to amputated because his flesh was so damaged in Cardiff, South Wales.read
The teenager killed Euan Craig after repeatedly punching him in the head following an incident at a Glasgow school in May 2012. read
The zoo in west Wales run by Anna Ryder Richardson and her husband Colin MacDougall has been fined over serious health and safety breaches.read
At the height of the Swinging Sixties, Tara Browne, 21 year old heir to the Guinness fortune, was killed instantly when he slammed his Lotus sports car into the side of a parked van at 120mph on a Chelsea street. read
Paula Barnes, 45, of Baydon, Wiltshire, (right) fled to Holland after the offence. Her husband David (left) is in prison for a £25m drug smuggling operation.read
After the bear started breaking into homes in Mountain Air, North Carolina looking for food, once stealing two pies from a kitchen counter, some people had enough. read
Fox News presenter Andrea Tantaros (pictured) said food stamps - which provide an average monthly budget of $133 - would be a great weight-loss plan. read
The irreversible damage to the work of art, which will take up to 18 months to repair, was revealed as Russian artist Wlodzimierz Umaniec, appeared in court charged with the attack today.read
The desks and software were designed by experts at Durham University, and studies have shown they can increase both fluency and flexibility in maths. read
Jermaine Joseph, 23, of Tottenham, north London, wept as he was found not guilty of murder and manslaughter by a jury.read
A Gaza health official reported the first violence since the truce between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers took hold a day before.read
'He got carried away'. Welshman Phillip Pritchard, 32, from Swansea, was on his way home from a wedding at the Peterstone Court Hotel, pictured, when he sang anti-English songs.read
One student at St John's College, Cambridge said he was forced to help groundsmen fill in a trench while another claimed they had been made to clean toilets for an hour every day - for six days after breaking rules.read
Two people are dead and more than 120 injured, some critically, after an estimated 100-vehicle pileup in Texas. Dense fog blanketing a section of the interstate made conditions treacherous for drivers heading to Thanksgiving holiday feasts.read
Open up your computer and all you will see are a bunch of black boxes, but these chips have had their protective casings dissolved with hot acid to reveal their working parts. read
Astrophotographer Hernan Stockebrand took 89 photos every 30 seconds to create this amazing image which shows the path of the stars above the Valley of Cochiguaz, Chile.read
Scientists who went in search of Sandy Island - which on maps appears midway between Australia and the French-governed New Caledonia - found nothing but sea when they arrived.read
The children decided to use the wooden structure on their journey to school in Java, Indonesia as a shortcut, even though it wasn't built for people to walk on.read
Around 100 artefacts, documents and artworks are on on display at the National Museum Scotland in Edinburgh to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth on March 19 next year.read
Lei Zhengfu (pictured), a district party chief in the southwestern city of Chongqing, was fired after an investigation by the Communist party's discipline watchdog.read
The 'Biblio-Mat' at quirky bookstore Monkey’s Paw in Toronto, Canada, gives out random books that are at least 25-years-old in exchange for a $2 coin.read
The pictures were posted by 40-year-old Gulnara Karimova - whose father is president of Uzbekistan - on the internet.read
The Beatles’ audition tape that was infamously rejected by a record company boss as he thought guitar groups were ‘on the way out’ has been discovered after 50 years.read