The younger sister of the Duchess of Cambridge was accompanied by wealthy banker Tom Kingston as the two arrived for the third day of the Gloucestershire race meet.read
Audience members at the public debate on the subject 'Islam Or Atheism: Which Makes More Sense?' were told to enter the chamber through either the men's or women's entrances.read
Mick Philpott, 56, spent his second day in the dock at Nottingham Crown Court today describing what life was like in the Derby council house his six 'babies' had died in last May.read
The 31-year-old was attacked by three men in the early hours of Sunday morning as she walked, alone, back from a night out in the southern town of Benalmadena.read
Jeremy Hunt appeared to shift his defence of Sir David during a Commons debate on accountability, but refused to bow to public demands for him to be sacked.read
A study shows that the language barrier between generations is growing, with some parents being forced to ask their children to translate text messages for them.read
The Hoblyn estate in Cornwall, which once included a manor house and 3,000 acres of valuable farmland, has at last been settled after uncertainty going back over the past 80 years.read
George Traykov, 45, from Ilford, Essex, has won the EuroMillions twice in three years, gaining a fourtune of £1,160,873 in total. The property developer said skydiving was more exciting.read
The veteran Formula One legend said he would like a 'masculine' actor like Daniel Craig to portray his life of 'driving cars and chasing women' in any future biopic.read
The late Liberal MP went to Rochdale police station in 1970 demanding to speak to investigating officers and telling them to hand over the names of his accusers.read
A judge ruled there was no basis on which the London Borough of Haringey’s social workers should have started the inquiry - including approaching the child’s GP and her school.read
The new Pope opened his first morning as pontiff by praying at Rome's main basilica dedicated to the Virgin Mary barely 12 hours after being elected.read
Pope Francis I today faced his first controversy as leader of the Roman Catholic Church after it emerged he described Britain as 'usurpers' for ruling the Falkland Islands.read
The De la Cuadra family appealed to the Jesuits for help when their relatives disappeared, including a pregnant woman who was kidnapped and killed in 1977.read
Jorge Mario Bergoglio was seen yesterday wearing glasses as he was announced to the tens of thousands of Catholics who flocked to Vatican City.read
Bradford Crown Court heard from lawyers acting for Father William Finnegan, 59, (left) that he had confessed that he is married to Beverley Dawson (right).read
Toby Hayden, 27, flew into a rage in Chippenham, Wiltshire, after being told he had insufficient funds and repeatedly battered Loretta Butterworth, 22, in the face.read
The Prime Minister failed to reach agreement with Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg, who both want a new system of regulation to be written into law.read
Former Sunday Mirror editor Tina Weaver (pictured) and James Scott, who is now the editor of the People, were believed to be among the four people arrested in south London.read
Physicists at the CERN supercollider (pictured) in Geneva say they are now confident they have discovered a long-sought subatomic particle known as a Higgs boson - although they still aren't sure what type of Higgs Boson it is.read
A San Francisco firm hopes to begin making the gadget this year, and is developing an app to track user's alcohol levels over the course of an evening - and even call them a cab once they pass the safe level.read
Elijah Edney (pictured) from Portsmouth, Hampshire, has decided to have his first ever trip to the barbers in aid of charity. His hair will make a wig for children with cancer.read
Lord Ahmed, Britain's first male Muslim peer, faces an investigation after alleging Jewish involvement in his sentence for texting while driving at 60mph.read
Curtis Woodhouse, the former footballer-turned-boxer, today came face-to-face with the Twitter troll who he tracked down to his home. 'Embarrassed' James O'Brien apologised live on television to Woodhouse, who he enraged so much that he put a 'bounty' on his tormentor's head and drove more than 60 miles to his street.read
The ancient illuminated text's claim explains why Judas used a kiss to betray Jesus, since the Christian Messiah had the ability to transform his appearance.read
Iris Thornton, 55, allowed five teenagers aged 13 to 15 to smoke the cannabis and make brownies supplied by her at her home in Dennyoanhead, Stirlingshire.read
The holiday isle of Guernsey was hit with huge 8ft snow drifts, bringing the Channel Island to a complete halt. They are the worst snow storms to affect the island in decades.read
Fiona Salmon sat on one woman's legs to stop her getting out of bed and washed another woman's face so hard with a flannel she made her nose bleed.read
Ahead of next week's Budget, a devastating poll reveals the Chancellor's unpopularity is damaging the way people view the government's attempts to cut the deficit.read
Ahead of next week's Budget, the Labour leader unveils plans for regional banks, backed by public money, in an attempt to boost lending to business.read
Figures for skilled tradesmen plummeted by seven per cent in the last year alone after being badly hit by the economic downturn and depressed housing market.read
Only four per cent of people are getting frisky on a Tuesday, with Thursday coming a close second in the sexless stakes with only six per centread
The extraordinary footage released by West Midlands Police shows the addicts racing after a drug dealer's car to get their fix just seconds after he pulls into a street in Birmingham at 8:30am.read
Councils are accused of 'fiddling while Rome burns' after it emerged they have spent just a fraction of a £10million fund championed by the retail guru.read
The supermarket chain, which blamed a disappointing Christmas showing on its absence from the internet, is in talks with Ocado about a deal to share its operating knowledge.read
A Mexican photographer has set out to prove that the world's 'deadliest' sharks are misunderstood - and the former matador should know a thing or two about danger.read
Marcel Maden, of Salford, Greater Manchester, took photos of himself playing with a Smith & Wesson revolver in the mirror - before storing them on his phone.read
The new leader was given his title by the rubberstamp national legislature in Beijing, taking over from Hu Jintao. The 59-year-old previously served as vice-president.read
The Venezuelan president died on March 5, but the decision to preserve his body permanently was only announced two days later, by which time decomposition was underway.read
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said lifting the current EU arms embargo on Syria is the only method that will 'move things politically'.read
Sam John, 16, from Fareham, Hants, has been battling an inoperable brain tumour since he was nine-years-old. His last chance is proton beam therapy in the U.S.read
Monica Patricia Heck, 37, (top left) was filmed clambering over the side of the edge (bottom left) of Argentina's Iguazu Falls (file picture right) and leaping 350ft to her death. It is believed the teacher had a terminal illness.read
The death of the middle-aged man, from Glasgow, may have been due to contaminated heroin, or a contaminated cutting agent mixed with the drug.read
Fossilised remains of the creature dubbed Spartobranchus tenuis were unearthed in Canada's Burgess Shale fossil beds, in the Yoho National Parkread
Carnival announced on Thursday that guests were being flown off the island of St Maarten in the Caribbean where the ship is moored. Passengers had been reportedly held on the boat despite the fact toilets were overflowing and unusable on Wednesday. The cruise ship has a capacity of 3,646 passengers and 1,367 crew.read
The touristy Santa Anita Inn in Arcadia, pictured, is reportedly operating as a maternity hotel. The motel allegedly offers a birth service for Chinese women who travel to the U.S. so their children can be born American citizens.read
The exercise was personally supervised by leader Kim Jong Un, who has issued a series of inflammatory threats against South Korea and the U.S. in recent days.read
The guardians of Paris's historic catacombs (pictured) are battling against a growing wave of people using the underground chambers as backdrops for nude artwork.read
The House of Commons set, measuring 5,000 sq ft, joins sets used by Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weiz for sale on eBay after being put up by by the Wimbledon Studios, in south west London.read
A scrapbook documenting life in the German prisoner of war camp in New Forest, Hampshire was found in a bedroom cupboard by the son of first lieutenant Max Mueller.read
Doctors at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, diagnosed a patient with a potentially fatal stroke because, despite being able to talk and write, he was sending garbled texts.read
Katrina Taylor, 34, lost control of her Porsche after hitting standing water at 50mph on the A14 in Northamptonshire and smashed into the central reservation.read
Bianca Nicholas, from Beckenham, Kent, was facing a life-saving double lung transplant but says that singing has increased her lung capacity by 20 per cent.read
Account manager Mark Earnshaw, 51, was almost left in a coma after he went outside his Blackpool home to remonstrate with youths who were overturning bins.read
Prodromos Vasilopoulo, 23, was found to be carrying a 3,800-volt weapon similar to this (stock picture) after being stopped inside the airport's Terminal 4 building.read
Tonee Walker, 22, was dubbed the 'Buxom Bandit' after she was caught on CCTV robbing a petrol station in Australia wearing a strikingly low-cut top.read
Being able to read Arabic would enable the Prince, who is passionate about encouraging dialogue between different religions, to read the holy book in its original form.read
The violin and its box were used by its owner Wallace Hartley as a buoyancy aid after the ship went down and since it was pulled from the water it has changed hands several times.read
John Shone, 77, from Wiltshire, spent four weeks in hospital fighting the infection after he breathed in germs from his bagpipe that he hadn't cleaned in 18 months.read
A damning report accuses car makers of regularly using techniques such as taping over door cracks and grills to prevent wind resistance, which manipulate their results. The Transport & Environment campaign group said: 'For some individual models the real-world emissions are now 50 per cent higher than the test results.'read
A new study has found the number of highway craters has soared by nearly a third to more than 2.2 million and one in three drivers have had their cars damaged by one in the past two years.read
The Facebook clip appears to show a teenager from a school in Hull, East Yorkshire, repeatedly hitting another boy, lashing out six times with his fists and headbutting him twice.read
The 13th century Fondaco dei Tedeschi, overlooking the Rialto Bridge, is set to be turned into a shopping centre despite fierce protest from conservationists.read
A study by a criminologist at the University of Maryland, said there have been 116 executions in the modern era in Harris County, which incorporates Houston, the largest city in Texas.read
The 600-year-old Chinese coin found on the Kenyan island of Manda that rewrites the history books on international trading.read
Lawrence Haygarth, 70, from Tebay, Cumbria, suffered life-threatening injuries when he was attacked by his prized two-tonne bull.read
Company director Andrew Rodgers, 34, who runs a chain of salons called Funky Divas in Sheffield, was accused of being a sexist bully by hairdressers who used to work for him.read
James Edgar, from Caernarfon, North Wales, was born with Angelman syndrome - a chromosome disorder that causes severe learning difficulties - but a permanent smile on his face.read
Sophie Parker, from Redhill, Surrey, was born with dislocated hips due to a rare condition called Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH).read
The Ipsos Mori poll found Scottish households gave away £356 last year. This made Scotland the most generous nation in the UK on average, followed by Wales on £328 and England on £285.read
Several historians say Gustave Whitehead's first recorded flight took place in August 1901 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.read
Neighbors say Cynthia Wachenheim, 45, a New York attorney, had an argument with her husband two hours before she leaped out the window of her apartment with her 10-month-old son in her arms.read
Paul Kingston managed to capture comet C/2011 L4 PanSTARRS in almost clear skies above the Irish Sea as it graced the western horizon trailing a blaze of fire.read
Police are investigating the incident which took place at a school for children with special needs in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.read
Preliminary results show that the drug called suramin, which is already used to treat sleeping sickness in Africa, corrects autism-like symptoms in mice.read
Graham Axford, 58, who was exposed in a BBC Panorama programme, secretly owned a property in Wales and part-owned a French farmhouse in Normandy, which he restored, Croydon Crown Court heard. The benefits cheat was jailed for four months for taking the handouts.read
Alexei Tolmachev, 35, from Tambov, was found slumped on the floor at his friend's office in Moscow, killed by a shot to his right temple.read
Debbie Walerysiak was sitting in the kitchen of her home in Woodplumpton, near Preston, when ex-husband Paul Walerysiak launched his vicious attack.read
Only months after the king’s 500-year-old corpse was found in Leicestershire, the grave of a medieval knight has been uncovered in Edinburgh.read
A new dispute emerged yesterday over how grand the tomb for Richard III, whose remains were found under a Leicester car park, should be.read
Eric Pickles launched an attack on town halls claiming that they were using the public as 'cash cows'. This comes after a report revealed that the number of spot fines issued has increased five-fold in a decade.read
MAX HASTINGS: All over Britain, communities find themselves confronted with draconian demands from central Government to accept new housing — far in excess of anything local plans recognise as acceptable — which threatens to change their areas beyond recognition.read
Jeff Parkins and Mick Collinson have refused to pay an extra £43.20 a year to listen to their radio at their two-man workshop in Scarborough after they had already paid £139.read
The bizarre pairing were spotted happily side-by-side enjoying a meal in Sue Massey's back garden in Leicester. The 60-year-old was taking a video of a hedgehog lapping from a bowl in her garden in when a fox decided to join in.read
Five species of sharks including the porbeagle (pictured) which is native to British waters were given protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites).read
The developers behind the $190 Android-powered ePad Femme are certain that women think tablet computers are too complicated so have created this to make the world of technology a less daunting place.read
Police officers and representatives from the Child Rights Commission found 29 girls, all aged between five and 14, living in squalid conditions in the home in Jaipur, the state capital of Rhajasthan.read
Photographer Jon Nicholson spent 18 months capturing seaside images in Blackpool, Bournemouth and Great Yarmouth using a Polaroid camera and old fashioned film.read
Swiss Space Systems says the system will be a far cheaper way to launch satellites - and says it can sell launches for £7m, around a quarter of the price currently charged.read
The country's health minister Aaron Motsoaledi (pictured) said the statistic 'destroyed his soul' and claimed that 'sugar daddies' were targeting young girls.read
Tom Robinson and Verity Carberry started their project with a photo of their legs on Brighton beach in 2005. Since then they have travelled to 31 countries and introduced a third pair of feet with their daughter Matilda.read
The youngsters, from Huaibei City, East China, were having the traditional good luck trim on 'Er Yue Er' the second day of the second lunar month which is known as 'a time for the dragon to raise its head'.read
Vets at the Panda Breeding and Research Base in Chengdu, Sichuan province, Southern China, were worried when inexperienced five-year-old female Colin kept rejecting her mate, Yongyong.read
Bader, Britain’s best-known fighter ace, lost his legs in a pre-war flying accident and was invalided out of the Royal Air Force.read
Police in Tooele say Michelle Parker and William Parker, both 27, were arrested after holding up a Wells Fargo branch with their 5-year-old and 2-year-old children in the backseat of their car.read
Tourists on a wildlife cruise in the Daintree River in Queensland. Australia, came across the two-metre crocodile chewing on a younger juvenile.read
Shocking video shows Kenyan acrobat Karo Christopher Kazungu, 22, plummeting to the ground during a complex aerial gymnastics display last night.read