And it's good news for believers - you still have time for one last fry-up as the apocalypse is not predicted until later this morning. read
Mensa member Peter Bainbridge made the ‘offensive’ comment on BBC Breakfast, forcing the show’s presenters to read out an apology live on air.read
Researchers say that dinosaurs were not only the largest animals to roam the Earth - they also had a greater number of larger species compared to all other back-boned animals. read
A signal failure outside Paddington Station means there are no trains to Britain's busiest airport and almost every train to Wales and the south-west is delayed or cancelled. read
The Prime Minister held crisis talks with former Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell who is unhappy at the handing of the case by Met police chief Bernard Hogan Howe.read
Forecasters say up to 2ins of rain could fall in the 24 hours from 6pm tonight, as homeowners in some parts evacuate amid widespread fears of flooding.read
Jobs, who died last year after making his name and fortune at Apple, never got to use the yacht - called Venus. read
A gang of five was jailed after admitted conspiracy to commit burglary or handling stolen goods at Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester.read
Football chiefs were left astonished after the draw for the Champions League picked out exactly the same teams as the draw for the dress rehearsal.read
Joseph "Jose" Banks, 37, was caught by agents and officers from the Chicago FBI Violent Crimes Task Force last night 'without incident'.read
Activists condemned the head of police in Thane Commissioner KP Raghuvanshi's remarks as sexist and 'idiotic'. It follows the violent gang rape of a 23-year-old student on a bus in New Delhi.read
An EU ruling means it is now illegal for insurers to set prices according to gender – and young women are set to be hit hardest.read
Dr Derek Keilloh, who supervised a failed resuscitation attempt to save the life of Iraqi prisoner Baha Mousa in 2003, has been struck off the medical register today. read
Victor Cingolani (right) was jailed for the 2010 murder of 19-year-old model Johana Casas (left). Tomorrow her twin sister Edith will marry the killer in Pico Truncade, Argentina.read
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan warned the out of work will have their benefits cuts if they fail to look for three jobs a week on a new website.read
'Most people would throw phones on the ground, slide them across the floor, and once we tried to see who could get the biggest crack,' a former Apple employee revealed this week with a photo of this cracked iPad.read
The vegetable contains high levels of vitamin K, a chemical that can interfere with blood thinning drugs taken by heart patients, according to the Medical Journal of Australia.read
The clock is ticking for those who haven't yet decided what Christmas gift to get that special someone in their lives.read
Richard Wands, 33, from Perth, Scotland, was more than 150ft from the beach when he came up against the man-eating shark in Perth, Western Australia.read
Fred Talbot, 63, best known for presenting the weather on This Morning in the late 80s, had his home in Manchester searched by police.read
One theory is the stem cells – which can develop into any tissue in the body – could have reacted with a common dermal filler which contains calcium, say Californian scientists.read
The outspoken Irishman uses controversial schemes to chase publicity and his current man Stephen McNamara is leaving after 'four years of being battered and abused'.read
James Johnson, pictured right, spent 10 days in a coma after the attack in Harwich, Essex. Kyle Ogilvie, pictured left, was convicted of attempted murder and is facing years behind bars.read
Logan Steed was kicked out of Powers Hall Infant School in Witham, Essex, after being suspended four times for hitting, biting and punching pupils and staff.read
The landmark which featured in Dame Vera Lynn's wartime classic will remain British after Transport minister Simon Burns bowed to public pressure and removed the port from the list of assets up for grabsread
'The Motherhood', a spoof rap produced by French car manufacturer Fiat, has gone viral thanks to its hilariously frank take on being a mum.read
Magdelena Luczak, 27, and her partner Mariusz Krezolek, 33, are accused of assaulting and killing her son Daniel Pelka at the family home in Coventry in March.read
Those aged five to 14 are the worst affected, according to the Health Protection Agency, with other statistics suggesting the North East of England has also been badly hit. read
People who feel pain more intensely could have a particular set of genes that work together to regulate pain, claims a study published in the journal PLOS Genetics.read
Samantha Kidd, 44, who had moved out of their home in East Sussex, has been charged with six counts of assault by beating between July and October this year.read
Live bears were sedated and then sent up in the four jet engineB-58 Hustler - the first aircraft to fly at twice the speed of sound - to test out the safety of its ejection system.read
Sally Roberts, 37, believes seven-year-old Neon should not be given radiotherapy because of possible side effects such as infertility and reduced IQ. read
Business Secretary Vince Cable overhauls 300-year-old copyright laws, clearing the way for even more parodies of the Hitler film Downfall. read
National Geographic Magazine has compiled some of the most evocative images of 2012 into one gallery, which showcases traditions of indigenous peoples around the world, the life of animals and natural phenomena. read
Corby Clark, 24, and Andrew Henderson, 44, attacked David Jones in Castlegate, Aberdeen, days after he was released from serving an eight-year jail sentence.read
The wealthy 65-year-old banker showed the wheelchair-bound 74-year-old videos of 'palm-fringed beaches and luxury hotels' to convince him to come on the trip.read
Excessively polite and socially awkward? Then you might just recognise yourself in the suggestions for 'British people problems' posted on US website, BuzzFeed.read
An official said today that Malala Yousufzai, 15, made the request after students broke into the school, tore down Malala's pictures and boycotted classes in her home town of Mingora.read
Robert Curtis, 47, made his fortune in the London property market during the early 2000s. read
Christmas-mad pensioners Hilda and Harry Creaney have transformed their home into a dazzling winter wonderland after spending £10,000 on festive decorations. read
A cross party group of female MPs said called for boys and girls to be taught together about relationships in order to deter them from having unprotected sex.read
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith (pictured) reveals he is studying the practicalities of a welfare card to stop handouts being used for alcohol or drugs.read
Rotherham Council may be sued for alleging the foster parents who lost care of their children because they belonged to Ukip had leaked information to the press.read
Abdul Rafiq, 43, pictured, had obtained Sophie Daysh's, (pictured), phone number when he showed her around a flat in Manchester when she was househunting in the city.read
Entrepreneur Kris Malde has been told to change the name of his venue (pictured) in Desborough, Northants, although it has been called the Ritz for over 80 years.read
Paul Stratford, 30, punched and forcefully shoved Zita McCormick in front of shocked staff at Seven Fields Primary School in Swindon, Wiltshire.read
The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards will say plans to separate banks’ risky investment arms from their high street operations may not prove ‘adequate’.read
Researchers found that people who were dominant, like U.S. tycoon Donald Trump (pictured), had a greater influence, and could be easily and quickly picked out of a crowd.read
Researchers used the headphones and a microphone to fool the finches into thinking they were singing out of tune - and then monitored how their song changedread
A group of British wives and mothers got together to perform their own version of the song to raise money for a breast cancer charity.read
According to a new poll, women are sick of today's mincing men and want a return to old-fashioned values and proper grooming - not pejazzles.read
An MRSA superbug that can cause serious and occasionally deadly infections in humans has been found in British milk for the first time.read
Special education teacher Anne Marie Murphy, a married mother of four, was found cradling Dylan Hockley, the boy she had given up her life to try to save. She has been remembered at a funeral in New York.read
On Thursday, around two dozen relatives and friends attended Nancy Lanza's former home in Kingston, but it is not known whether the memorial also served as a funeral or if she has been buried.read
Sam Mabbott's 16-year-old daughter had invited friends over to their home in Hook, Hampshire, for a 'girls' night in' complete with pizza and a film to celebrate one of them turning 17. read
Demand for firearms has exploded in the U.S., wiping store shelves clean of guns and ammo in every town, city and state since the school shooting in Connecticut and ensuing calls for stricter gun laws.read
Andrew Evans, 35, was found dead standing in his kitchen at his East Grinstead, West Sussex home. He had suffered a head injury before his death on May 10. read
Sunday trading laws will restrict large outlets to just six hours opening. Stores fear that the result will be chaos as families try to cram their shopping into a far shorter amount of time.read
The out-of-court settlements seem to have opened the floodgates, with a further 196 payments being currently negotiated by MoD lawyers and another 700 Iraqis expected to make claims next year. read
Jerry and Dawn Watkins of Bristol adopted the bird after she was found in a car park. She took a liking to the couple's Labradors and soon started acting like one.read
Twitter newcomer Pope Benedict XVI, 85, has beaten 18-year-old Canadian popstar Justin Bieber to set a percentage record for re-tweets by his followers.read
Italy's controversial former prime minister is accused of revealing confidential details of an investigation into a financial scandal to a newspaper owned by his brother.read
Even though divorce overall has become less common, the rate of break-ups among the ‘silver separators’ has soared in the past ten years, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.read
Julie Griffiths breached a noise abatement order a staggering 47 times in three months this year by 'screaming' at her husband Norman in their Stoke-on-Trent home.read
Linford 'Linney' House, from Aylesham, Kent, was arrested after the disrespectful image was seen on the internet during the early hours of Remembrance Sunday.read
CrossCountry, whose services snake around Britain, managed a punctuality rate of only 48.8 per cent over the last year when ‘late’ is defined as being within a minute of the published timetable.read
A poll of nearly 150,000 people around the world found that seven of the world's 10 countries with the most upbeat attitudes are in Latin America. read
The team have proved the existence of a third type of magnetism for the first time - and say the discovery could lead to major advances in computer hard drives and superconductors.read
Natalie McMillan's son Kian died a day later in hospital after the incident at his home in Burnley, Lancashire, on December 6 last year.read
Have you seen this woman? Agents from the F.B.I and Immigration and Customs were alerted after video of her appeared on the internet engaging in explicit sex with a four-to-five year-old victim.read
Phillip Hawkes, 25 (pictured), had gone on holiday to Majorca with his best friend to attempt the solo climbing exercise across a cliff face for the first time.read
The Home Office said that for the first time, people will be able to apply quickly and cheaply online for Criminal Records Bureau checks.read
They are demanding major changes to the Communications Bill, which currently would allow the monitoring of the public’s every phone call, email and internet click.read
Drivers found Caitriona O’Leary, of Eastbourne in Sussex, lying sprawled in the road, where she had suffered fatal head injuries.read
The Prime Minister tucked into a Christmas feast, sang carols and played football with soldiers on the front line yesterday.read
Danielle Canarelli (pictured), 58, who works at Marseille's Edouard-Toulouse hospital was convicted for failing to recognise that axe-murderer Joël Gaillard posed a public risk.read
Charles Punter, 25, (pictured) of Colchester, Essex had finished his first day at a marketing firm when he was offered a lift by after he had problems getting into work. read
NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel, pictured, said that he didn't believe he was going to make it out alive; he was abducted with his crew as they were crossing into Syria last week.read
To a certain kind of architectural snob, Barratt Homes are synonymous with the worst in suburban, lower middle-class, aspirational taste.read
Experts from Fedex and UPS have estimated what Father Christmas would need if he didn't have the extra boost of Christmas magic. read
Mabel Munoz, from Teignmouth, Devon, could have suffered permanent brain damage after she had the rare brain bleed earlier this year.read
While most of us will be happy with a DVD, t-shirt or perhaps a new watch from our loved ones this Christmas, the uber-rich are expecting a little bit more.read
Lindsay Sandiford (pictured), 56, from Teesside, was stopped at Bali Airport with 4.8kg of cocaine worth £1.6 million last May - for which the maximum sentence is execution.read
WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Photographs of the 37-year-old woman from Gothenburg, Sweden, posing next to human skulls were discovered by police in September.read
Drivers making their way along the M25 in Surrey did a double take when they spotted a llama making its way across a bridge above the motorway.read
Speaking from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Mr Assange said the ‘door is open’ for talks regarding his campaign to avoid extradition to Sweden.read
The waterfall, located near the picturesque Hardangerfjord in northern Norway, appears to be flowing straight from the stars in the dark sky above.read
Favor-Hamilton, a 44-year-old married mother of one who ran in the Olympics in the 1990s and 2000, has been working with one of Las Vegas' top agencies.read
The Father Christmas in Nuneham Courtenay, Oxford, also told the three siblings about the US school massacre before they were reduced to tears.read
David Brown from Hail Weston, Cambridgeshire, was given the phonograph and wax cylinders by his mum when she died, but he had no way to play the audio.read
CollinsDictionary.com selected 12 words, one for each month, which played their part in defining the past year.read
Kevin Robinson, 29, was jailed for 18 months yesterday after a judge at Ipswich Crown Court said he had 'grave concerns' about the risk the pervert posed.read
To mark half a century of wowing dinner party guests an archivist has uncovered a collection classic After Eight adverts. From the 60s and 70s they reflect the changing times. read
Art lovers and visitors will have to go through high tech vacuum cleaning as authorities seek to preserve the timeless beauty of the Renaissance masterpieceread
Optician chain tycoon Alain Afflelou - who has an estimated £190million fortune - will join thousands of wealthy French fleeing President Francois Hollande's new tax regime.read
'Well, honestly! I bet he won't be nipping out to the service station buying her Christmas presents!'read
The footage shows the deck where passengers used to sunbath turned on its side while the cruise ship's swimming pool lies half submerged in the sea off the coast of Tuscany.read
Fighters from 29 countries have flooded into Syria as the civil war takes on an 'overtly sectarian nature', warns the latest U.N. human rights report as this unexploded bomb in Ghouta showed the dangers faced by civilians.read
Brighton artist Kate Jenkins, 41, spends hours turning dozens of balls of wool into Heinz ketchup bottles, Campbells tomato soup tins and Coca-Cola cans.read
The black labrador pressed a panic button which Paul McKenzie has installed at his home in Derrington, Stafford, and an ambulance arrived in the nick of time.read
Dr Martin Curzon was working as a senior dental officer on Baffin Island in the Arctic Circle in the early 1970s when the Inuit people who he cared for gave him the stunning carvings.read
The x-ray shows how Allison June and Amelia Lee Tucker- who were debuted publicly today at a hospital in Philadelphia- were conjoined at the chest before their successful operation. read