Prince Harry said his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, would be 'proud' of his work supporting an anti-landmine charity she championed.read
Decorated British Olympian Andrew Simpson, 36, has died after a 72-foot-long sailboat capsized in San Francisco Bay while he and 11 teammates were practicing for the upcoming America’s Cup.read
Thames Water, which supplies more than 3.5million homes in London and the Thames Valley, will face a deficit of 125million litres a day by the end of the decade if no action is taken.read
Files obtained by international spy agencies show how the rich have hidden billions in Singapore, the British Virgin Islands and the Caymans (pictured).read
Six people waiting to see indie rockers The Vaccines at Venue Cymru in Llandudno, north Wales, were unable to answer some of the questions, so had their £18.50 tickets confiscated.read
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank said younger pupils should be able to pass tests at 7, 14 and their GCSEs at 16 with lower marks set on a sliding scale according to the month in which they were born.read
Lady Ferguson is the one person in the world who Sir Alex — the famously bullying, rude, intimidating manager of Manchester United, who retired this week after 26 years at the club — does not answer back to.read
Barry Tootell resigned as group chief executive, less than a month after the firm pulled out of a deal to buy more than 600 Lloyds branches.read
Clare Balding and Jake Humphrey (pictured left) are to anchor the new channel that was launched today. Tottenham midfielder Gareth Bale (pictured right) showed his support at the launch.read
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research said output rose by 0.8 per cent between February and April – the most since the Olympics.read
Campaigners accused the Chancellor of 'living in a fantasy land' after he said that raising the state pension age was one of the least controversial things the government had done.read
The new invention transforms the T5 Doubleback into a 26ft long home on wheels and doubles the living space. The inside of the ‘pod’ reveals luxurious seating for five people which can be rearranged to make a huge bed, with a foldaway table.read
Miley Byrne, 25, handcuffed a hotel guest to a lift and then offered the receptionist £50 to remove her knickers during the bizarre ordeal at a Travelodge in Chelmsford, Essex.read
Dozens of officers swooped on a dingy rented office in the City where 40 people were working 12 hours a day to rip off unsuspecting clients.read
The award is one of a string of perks worth £7.5million available annually at the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and related quangos.read
John Sharkey (pictured), chief Executive of the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow, who received £314,553.read
The man who allegedly kept three girls captive for a decade was so controlling with his first wife that he told her what to eat, who she could be friends with and when she could leave the house.read
The three girls who were held captive for a decade can't be left on their own because they were so 'brainwashed' they thought they the others would always be around, MailOnline can reveal.read
Ariel Castro would take a nude dark-skinned mannequin with a blonde wig everywhere he went with him to get attention and because he liked it by his side, relatives told MailOnline.read
Michelle Knight was gang-raped and impregnated in junior high - a year before she suffered more than 10 years of abuse under a kidnapper, an alarming report has revealed.read
Lillian Rodriguez spoke to reporters from the window of her car as she left her Cleveland home on Thursday. 'I am a mother in a lot of pain,' she said in Spanish. 'I am sorry for what my son has done.'read
Arlene Castro said that her father Ariel should be executed for what he did to the women, including Gina DeJesus, who was Arlene's best friend.read
William Avery-Wright had been knocked down by a Land Rover as he crossed a main road on his way to rugby practice.read
A German cardinal who visited him said he was 'shocked' at how his state of health had deteriorated.read
Education Secretary tears into Labour's national curriculum, which including using Mr Men to learn about World War Two and studying Disney films for lessons on the Middle Ages.read
This column has been sent a copy of a newsletter and mission statement from a recently established, inner-city, combined Guides and Brownies group, by RICHARD LITTLEJOHN.read
As though to show that even the brightest people can make fools of themselves, Professor Stephen Hawking has now done something which is beyond stupid.read
Lyndsey Savage, 27, kissed the hearse carrying the body of her husband Corporal William Savage, 30, a British soldier serving in Afghanistan who died when he was hit by an IED in the Helmand Province.read
Jane Richard (pictured), who lost her leg in the attack in the April 15 attack, awoke to learn that her brother Martin had been killed and that her parents had suffered injuries in the April 15 blast.read
Andrew Dawick (pictured), who lives at his home in Blackpool with his family, was targeted by authorities who wanted to remove 'professional' beggars from the seaside resort.read
While 37 per cent of women won’t confess to buying a new dress or pair of shoes, only 9 per cent of men fib about their clothes shopping.read
Kerry Ann Taylor, a Hampshire Police officer, will receive £4,837 damages after her employers today lost a bid to overturn the compensation order in the Court of Appeal.read
University of Southampton researchers used ultrasound scanning to create a 3D map of the area - and found the underwater town is as big as the City of London.read
Thomas Dunkley, 29, of Leicester, was told he must serve at least 34 years for the gruesopme murder of ex WBA light-middleweight champion Shaun Cummins.read
Paul Groves, 34, was today found guilty of murdering William 'Billy Boy' Martindale, 39, (pictured) in a savage attack on his remote smallholding in High Ongar, Essex.read
A West Yorkshire Police report into the force's links with Jimmy Savile revealed that one officer said the entertainer 'gets so many of these type of complaints'.read
Barbara Hewson, a barrister at Hardwicke chambers in London, described the arrests of celebrities in the wake of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal as a 'grotesque spectacle'.read
Jiervon Bartlett and Nayed Hoque, both 15, knocked Paula Castle, 85, to the ground and snatched her bank cards in Greenford, west London.read
Nick Clegg (pictured) plunged Coalition relations to a new low after publicly attacking proposals to relax the rules on the number of toddlers that nurseries and childminders can supervise.read
We awoke to news that Mr Clegg wanted to block the Government’s long-agreed policy on pre-school nurseries. He no longer liked the idea of saying that nursery nannies could look after a few more children.read
The £600 Loopwheel is set to go on sale in September. 44 year-old Nottingham engineer Sam Pearce came up with the idea after watching a pushchair struggle to get over a kerb.read
Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer said it can be 'oppressive and insensitive' for the courts to hear cases against people who have already suffered enough.read
The Transport Select committee concluded that a new airport in the Thames Estuary would be too expensive, impractical, harmful to wildlife and 'not commercially viable without huge public subsidies'.read
Lilly-May Allen had marked out a grid in chalk - which washes away in the rain - when she was apparently approached by two officers outside her home in Ramsgate, Kent.read
With Mother' s Day fast approaching, it seems appropriate to celebrate the most awkward mom-and-family photos we can find.read
A new first-person video has surfaced which gives viewers an opportunity to actually see what it's like to wear Google Glass, the new gadget hotly tipped as the future of computing.read
The Prime Minister is coming under increased pressure to offer an early vote on severing ties with Brussels, after it emerged that Lady Thatcher backed withdrawal form the EU.read
The American Heart Association reviewed studies from around the world and concluded pet ownership, particularly dog ownership, 'is probably associated with a decreased risk of heart disease'.read
Stuart Hazell denied that 'anything sexual' had happened between him and Tia, according to Warren Fegan, who was working at Belmarsh at the time he was arrested in August last year.read
A witness told Mold Crown Court that Mark Bridger, accused of abducting and murdering April Jones, was spotted clutching a black bin bag on a hill the day after the cerebral palsy-suffering youngster disappeared.read
Tara Quigley, 28, opened her door in Romford, London, to a man who threw the corrosive chemical in her face before running away.read
The celestial spectacle, known as a 'ring of fire' eclipse, is the second solar eclipse visible from northern Australia in six months.read
Visitors to the National Museum of Scotland will be able to marvel at real-life pieces of history in the Amazing Amber exhibition - and the iconic walking cane from the hit film Jurassic Park that made amber famous.read
UK government defends using the company which failed to recruit enough guards for the London Olympics to provide security at next month's G8 summit in Northern Ireland.read
A new study reveals that most women own 65 beauty products, which cost on average £30.22 each - but most said they use just 11 favourite items every day.read
Stewart Jackson vowed he will not pay £54,000 – the amount the watchdog said represents his constituency home’s increase in value while he was claiming mortgage interest on his expenses.read
Caroline Woollen, 33, tricked her Danish employer, Nordic Offshore, into believing she had secured lucrative contracts for them with Shell and Siemens, Hull Crown Court heard.read
Mounting domestic chores, work worries and arguments at family get-togethers are all factors which have combined to make the second half of the weekend just as frenetic as a working day for most.read
Some 3.4 million motorists - 9 per cent of the total - have fallen asleep while driving in the past 12 months Often this is just a ‘micro-sleep’ that can last for a second or so but long enough to cause a tragedy.read
The 1stFone, designed specifically for four to nine-year-olds, can only make and receive calls to preprogrammed numbers and has no screen.read
Rachel Carr, 28, was disciplined by managers at the Smile By Smile dental surgery in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, for snacking on the fruit while she worked.read
Shah's alleged victim, who says she was just 14 when the abuse began, said that escort Susan Davies told her she should get pregnant with Shah's child in order to get money from the businessman.read
Bailey Sumner (pictured), of Blackpool, plunged 30ft from a 500ft-long ride at GreenWood Forest Park near Caernarfon, Gwynedd, north-west Wales in April 2011.read
Researchers at the University of Manitoba in Canada analyzed 527 adverts pulled from a slate of popular U.S. men's magazines, including Wired, Maxim and Golf Digest.read
Living near a busy road and increased levels of pollution from cars and lorries significantly raised the risk of insulin resistance in ten-year-olds, scientists found.read
Deborah Parrott was told she could not get her pet dog Rocko back even though only six weeks had passed since he vanished from their garden in Norwich, Norfolk.read
At the Ostankinsky district court on Tuesday, the trial began of a man who threw a punch. Nothing more than pride was really hurt in the scuffle, which lasted mere seconds.read
Newspaper groups said they would no longer insist on the power to block appointments to a proposed Press regulator.read
The Sex And The City writer was targeted when the first page of her book was posted and a series of frantic messages appeared on her Twitter account. Ms Bushnell, 54, is the latest high profile figure to be hacked Guccifer.read
The pressure group, which sat in on late-night talks at Ed Miliband's Commons office when the Royal charter on newspaper regulation was agreed by the three political parties, refuses to reveal its donors.read
Travellers stuck in the departure lounge at Abu Dhabi International Airport are now able to catch up on some shut-eye in a futuristic-looking 'sleeping pod'.read
Anne Manger (pictured), 55, whose father was a postmaster, was a well-respected member of the community but turned to fraud when money worries hit, Leicester Crown Court heard.read
Food hygeine officers also found there was no hot water for those preparing food at Flying Pizza in Swansea, South Wales.read
The chain may promote itself as the ‘healthy’ fast food restaurant but the new study, carried out by UCLA, suggests that it is not much healthier than McDonald’s, and in terms of salt it is worse.read
Abe Astur, from Winchester, had surgery in America to sever the nerves in his spine that sent messages to paralyse his leg muscles.read
Marcela Castro, 29, from San Jose, Costa Rica, has been running Doga classes for 3 years after taking one of her six dogs to a yoga class with her.read
The Staffordshire attraction's Smiler will open later this month and was designed with the help of psychology experts and scientific researchers to push thrill-seekers to their limits.read
Described by Winston Churchill as the 'worst journey in the world', the heroes who risked their lives running a gauntlet of German warplanes and U-boats to keep the Red Army fighting on the Eastern Front were honoured at Loch Ewe, Scotland, yesterday.read
American scientists have successfully tested a gold-based solder that can be welded onto surgical wounds using lasers. It could provide an alternative to stitches and sutures.read
Arms and legs flailing helplessly, this paraglider might have felt like dying of embarrassment...if it hadn’t been for a far more realistic threat to his life.read
Cleveland Police Detective Chief Inspector Heather Eastwood's husband Sean Price was the first chief constable to be sacked in 35 years last year.read
Labour leader was hailed as a hero after 'appearing out of nowhere' to help Ella Phillips in Kentish Town after she fell over the handlebars.read
The number of birds and hedgehogs in the UK has fallen dramatically as a result of climate change and extreme weather, according to a new report.read
David Attenborough's Tweet of the Day programme - a radio broadcast of birdsong - has proved such a hit with listeners that retailers are reporting a surge in sales of bird-related items.read
Scientists have used a dose of young blood to reverse the life-threatening thickening and stiffening of the heart that occurs with age. The work was done on mice but the researchers believe it will lead to the first drug to mend ‘broken hearts’ in elderly men and women.read
British researchers analysed data from over 17,000 people in England, Scotland, and Wales over a span of 50 years - and say being good at maths and reading at seven could add £5,000 to our salary in later life.read
For the past three decades, Marietta Pathy Allen in her role as an unofficial chronicler of the cross-dressing community has been working to capture the essence of transgender people beyond the wigs, makeup and outfits.read
A gang of four Eastern European men have been jailed for more than 15 years for robbing £200,000 worth of electronic goods from a John Lewis warehouse in Brackmills, Northampton.read
A survey into life's luxuries shows that having a bubble bath (pictured) a pint after work or a weekly take-away are considered important treats. People indulges in these luxuries twice a month.read
Researchers at the University of Gottingen also found that pupils with hypertension were more emotionally balanced and less likely to behave badly.read
An anti-drug group says the products belittle abuse of prescription drugs which is the leading cause of accidental death in the U.S.read
Donna Bowett, 42, went to Alexandra Hospital in Worcestershire to have her gallbladder removed, but suffered 'excruciating' pain afterwards, not knowing doctors left an instrument behind (pictured).read
Blueprints for the first-ever plastic gun produced on a 3-D printer have been downloaded over 100,000 times but the State Department ordered the site to take down the plans on Thursday.read
James Bowes, 30, contacted the now defunct Sunday tabloid newspaper and told a journalist that police child protection officers had gone to the home of Price's former husband Peter Andre in Brighton.read
Online gossip that he has fathered children with four women led to the investigation of Zhang Yimou, who directed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.read
Kong Dongmei, 41, the granddaughter of Chairman Mao, is believed to have made part of her fortune selling publications about her famous grandfather.read
According to a highly controversial scientific theory being debated in London this week, we should imagine our ancestors up to their necks in water, splashing after fish and clams.read
Javad Malik was trying to escape police in his Renault Megane which was full of class A and B drugs when he crashed into 28-year-old Ahtia Tabisim's Ford Fiesta in Birmingham in January.read
Biagio Chiarolanza, chief executive of the label, said the company bought shirts from New Wave Style, which was based at the building in capital Dhaka that collapsed two weeks ago (pictured).read
Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle, U.S., found that foods that contain an edible form of nicotine give some protection against the condition.read
The study, published in journal ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, discovered that a compound found in the cinnamon could inflict damage of those with sensitive livers.read
Marks & Spencer opened its new 900,000 sq ft distribution centre yesterday in Castle Donington, Leicestershire, to handle all of the company's online orders and store deliveries.read
A police official, Abdul Rehman, said gunmen stormed the rally in the town of Multan, opened fire and seized Ali Haider Gilani.read
The tiger, a mascot of the conservative Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party, often appeared at events led by the party chief's daughter Maryam Nawaz.read
Scientists from California have developed bacteria than can make plants glow-in-the dark. The doctors are hoping that luminescent trees could one day replace electric street lighting.read
The cycle lane in Nottingham is just over four feet wide - so even the smallest cars are unable to squeeze down there and park. However, the council say the lines are needed to protect cyclists.read
Justin Matthews, a retained firefighter from Torrington, Devon, was walking in front of the vehicle dressed as a bear during the town's carnival when he was hit by its front wheel.read
A huge blaze has engulfed the LDA Plaza building in Lahore after originating on the seventh or eighth floor.read
Japanese firm Pioneer has shown off the prototype system in Tokyo which can print a wallet-sized holographic card from a 3D ultrasound scan.read
'Hello. Progress report on Government's "mentor an ex-con for a year" scheme...day one...'read
An albino seal pup who was made an outcast and abandoned by her mother because of her looks, is now the main attraction at a Linconshire sanctuary. Junior has an unusual milky coat and blood-red eyes.read
The big cat tried its luck against the herd of 15 elephants by stalking the group and sipping from the same water hole in the Etosha National Park, Namibia.read
Fighter jets screamed over Red Square and heavy tanks rumbled over its cobblestones as Russia flexed today its military muscle on the anniversary of its costly victory over Nazi Germany in the Second War War.read
Workers at the California Waste Solutions in West Oakland discovered a mummified head on Wednesday, as police now search for more body parts.read
The display allows 15 job seekers to take a seat in a shopfront on a busy Copenhagen in the hopes that potential employers will walk by.read
Footage has emerged of the U.S. paratrooper kneeling on the open ramp when he is suddenly pulled from the back of the plane. Amazingly, the man landed safely and was not injured.read
The baby was pictured drinking from a stream at the Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi province with a herd of common Asian elephants.read
Photographer Mansi Thapliyal met families of missing children in Delhi to highlight the issue facing the country. This year alone 725 children have disappeared in the city.read