The four-bedroom house, in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, was flattened in just a day after it was built 6ft higher, 9ft longer and 4ft wider than originally applied for.read
Jeanette Matthews allegedly threatened the expectant mother at Airedale General Hospital in Keighley, West Yorkshire, in February 2011.read
Malcolm Greenhill, from West Bromwich, West Midlands, thought he'd watched his wife Marilyn, 65, die after he made the decision to turn off the machines which were keeping her alive.read
London Underground has removed the framed A4 image and another picture on a desk from an Essex depot while they investigate the complaint.read
Harmonised H20 UV claims to provide holidaymakers with up to factor 30 protection, meaning sunbathers could be able to soak up the rays for longer without fear of getting burned.read
EXCLUSIVE: An Oxford-based body language expert has revealed six types of smiles that can make you look flirtier, submissive, honest, secretive and dominant.read
Officers were called to this house in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, where they found a 37-year-old woman, named locally as Emma Mansell, with stab wounds.read
Terence Boyle, 68, was ambushed in Gorton Cemetery in Manchester on Saturday lunchtime as he tended his parents' grave on the anniversary of his mother's death.read
A woman told Southwark Crown Court that she met Harris, 84, from Bray, Berkshire when, aged 18, she was on holiday in Malta with her boyfriend in 1970.read
A clear majority want work restrictions on migrants coming to the UK, back gay marriage and fracking but they are split on whether Britain should leave the EU.read
Chris Rogers was caught marching with one finger under his nose, as crew reportedly looked on. The BBC Panorama documentary Euro 2012: Stadiums of Hate, was filmed two years ago ahead of the tournament in Poland and Ukraine - but details of the gaffe have only just come to light.read
Beneath the Baroque mansions and iconic squares of central Bucharest, Romania, lies a second city that no tourist gets to see - an underground kingdom of outcasts and drug addicts living in the city's vast network of sewers.read
The 'ask' button appears on the profiles of users who have left their relationship status blank, and includes a note section to explain why you're inquiring.read
Sources claim Facebook could release a video-messaging app this month. Dubbed Slingshot, it would be a direct competitor to Snapchat and Vine.read
Business Minister Matthew Hancock claimed the minimum wage had 'never been higher' as a proportion of wages, suggesting that Labour's proposal would hit low earners.read
All of Britain’s party leaders proved so unappealing for female voters aged 18-30 that most would rather vote for politicians who are from other countries or dead.read
Deborah Chniti, 43, left Stoke-on-Trent in 2012 to marry Ala, 27, but now wants to return with him to the UK because she is broke.read
Thought death was clear but? A new book, Opening Heaven's Door, will callenge your views. In the second part of our serialisation, bereaved people recall visits by dead loved ones, writes PATRICIA PEARSON.read
The dictionary makers have taken to Twitter to find new words for the next edition of the lexicon - asking users to choose which words should make the final edition.read
The painting, Mobile Lovers, had appeared overnight on a plank of wood screwed to a wall close to the Broad Plain Boys' Club in Banksy's home town of Bristol.read
The American company last night offered the board of the British company £55-a-share but said this would be their best and last offer. But it emerged this morning AstraZeneca has formally turned it down.read
A study carried out at Mass General Hospital for Children in the U.S. found 'compelling evidence' that getting less than recommended amounts of sleep in early childhood are more likely to be obese later in life.read
Bristol's Peter Nunn, 33, (pictured) retweeted 'menacing' messages threatening to rape Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy and branding her a 'witch', prosecutors allegeread
Wendy White, 35, stole thousands of pounds from the pre-school after her habit of playing an online version of the game left her massively in debt.read
Groups of students took to the streets of Liverpool dressed in floral garlands and Carnage t-shirts, as they spent the night hitting the bars in the city centre while celebrating the end of the university term.read
Phil Lyman, 18, a pupil at £30,000-a-year Wellington College, Berkshire, said he was 'going public' because of the pressure on young people to have sex.read
Arnold Pickering, 44, pictured, who stabbed a blind man to death, has been held at an address in Oldham for being unlawfully at large, police have said.read
Justice Secretary Chris says the system will be overhauled after murderer Arnold Pickering, 44, went missing on Saturday - and was only rearrested today.read
The World Obesity Federation and Consumers International will call on governments around the world to impose stricter rules at the World Health Assembly in Geneva this week.read
Anton Purisima, 62, claims that his middle finger was bitten off by a 'rabies-infected' dog on a city bus and now he is suing a long list of defendants including the City of New York, Au Bon Pain and Kmart.read
The highest temperature of the day was the 26.3C (79F) recorded at London Heathrow Airport this afternoon - hotter than Rhodes, Rome and Madrid.read
An animated version of the popular puzzle has been created by Google engineers allowing anyone to solve the frustratingly-difficult game.read
Metal apparatus fell in Qiqihar, northeast China's Heilongjiang province on Friday - the photos were released today.read
Survivors and families of the victims of the September 11 tragedy are outraged over the souvenirs which will be on sale at the 9/11 Memorial Museum gift shop.read
Sheila Vogel-Coupe from London's St John's Wood, whose granddaughter Katie Waissel shot to fame on the X-Factor, says she has no plans to give up.read
Lucy Hennessy, 38, from Essex, won four categories at the World Balloon Convention 2014 in Denver, Colorado, beating more than 100 entrants from all over the globe.read
Victoria and David Beckham's eldest child Brooklyn, 15, is thought to have done a couple shifts at the West London coffee - with one of his colleagues saying he 'got on well' with other baristas.read
Thousands of the insects settled on the figure of Talos in the crowded centre of Cambridge, forcing a nearby restaurant to close its doors and windows as a precaution.read
Ryan and Grant Seymour, both 19, were caught on CCTV taking part in mass violence, in Biddulph, Staffordshire, on July 6 last year.read
Fay Harryman, from Kent, was told her smear test was normal but she soon developed bladder problems and abnormal bleeding and further tests revealed a tumour.read
Dermatologists have raised the alarm on an aggressive form of melanoma that looks like a harmless pimple but kills hundreds of Australians a year.read
Onlookers saw the aircraft 'corkscrew' out of the sky, tumbling into a field after it struck another glider above the village of Great Gransden, Cambridgeshire.read
Mahathir said the missing plane may have had its airline markings removed and air-sea debris search is 'a waste of time and money'.read
MH370's 53-year-old pilot has been under intense scrutiny since the flight disappeared March 8, but brother-in-law Asuad Khan rubbished rumours of tension at home, saying Zaharie was still happily married when the flight vanishedread
Kim Roberts, 58, of Colyton, Devon, is accused of taking valuable items from the Dowager Countess Bathurst, while working at her grand Cotswolds estate and Kensington home.read
The sailors are seen on stage in the image, holding trophies on the last day of the event they'd sailed the 40-foot Cheeki Rafiki in - the Antigua Regatta.read
Ian MacDonald, 78, discovered he had 'bi-lateral carcinoma of the right lung', after a six-page report was sent to him by Ninewells Hospital in Dundee. The letter should have been sent to Mr MacDonald's doctor.read
Richard Daffyd Vevar, 62, has been charged with two offences of indecent assault against a boy aged 13 and 16, the National Crime Agency has said.read
The photograph of UKIP MEP candidate Janice Atkinson giving a one-fingered salute at local activists in Ashford, Kent, has been shared 55,000 times on Facebook.read
Professor Alan Sked said a storm of controversy provoked by Mr Farage’s remarks last week about Romanians 'backs up what I have always said' about the Ukip leader's private views on race.read
Students at Brasenose College in Oxford started to fall ill with the virus last week, just as summer exams began, and it is thought at least 30 students have been affected.read
Researchers at the University of Southern California say women are attracted to the same men regardless of the time of the month.read
A former government building in Westminster is set to be transformed into a set of luxury properties, expected to reach around £5million each when soldread
The photo of two women kissing was posted on Facebook on Saturday by Carlotta Trevisan, a 28-year-old mother of one from Italy.read
Neil Allison and his wife, from Redcar, Yorkshire, had their trip cut short just one day into their break after the Foreign Office warned against travelling to beach resorts along the coast.read
Wing Commander Peter Ayerst, from Beckenham, Kent, survived combat operations in the Battle of France, Battle of Britain, El Alamein and D-Day.read
The caffeine fan, who calls himself Winter, still has 10,000 branches to visit around the world if he is to complete his task.read
Bringing the tropics to Dymchurch, Kent, Karl Emanuelsson has transformed his home into a luxury Caribbean style retreat - complete with real sand, palm trees and deck chairs.read
Governments should look beyond profits and economic growth and take into account benefits which are less easy to measure, the global body said.read
David Cameron believes there is a major difference between wanting falsehoods taken down from the web and trying to ‘hide factually correct information’.read
The 71-year-old British director, pictured, spoke out at the Cannes Film Festival, where his new biopic, Mr Turner, is a strong contender for the prestigious Palme d'Or prize.read
Many readers of violent novels such as The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo, made into a film starring Noomi Rapace, are young women, according to authors.read
Chris Quick, 58, and her husband Keith, 61, of Southsea, had booked and paid for a trip to Benidorm next month to celebrate their 38th wedding anniversary.read
Criggion station, not far from Welshpool, Powys, was once key to Britain's naval communications and played an important role in many momentous military decisionsread
The child was held in the arms of Veronika Doulova, 36, when she appeared in the dock of a court in the western Russian city of Novgorod this week.read
A police probe that lasted forty days discovered that the killer was actually the second woman in a bigamous relationship, and the mother of two of the girls that died.read
Wang Benyu, 60, received 1.5 million Chinese Yuan (£142,000) in compensation from the Chinese government after spending nearly two decades in prison for a crime he did not commit.read
Tara Sawyer, 37, from Wimblington, Cambridgeshire, loves the feeling of being pregnant and refuses to take any payment for surrogacy.read
The pledge, launched as a charm offensive, only applies to the first 90 bags, meaning other holidaymakers have to queue as suitcases are checked in on flights – causing delays.read
Michael O'Leary's budget airline has today revealed its post-tax profits were £426.5million to the end of March 2014 - down around £37million on a year earlier.read
Writer Jane Common and her dog Attlee travelled the country to find the best dog-friendly digs for their book Phileas Dogg's Guide to Dog-Friendly Holidays in Britain.read
Spray-painted onto pavements, the clever advert is invisible until it starts to rain, when waiter droplets roll away to reveal the message.read
Louise Hitchen, 27, from Merseyside, syphoned compensation money for clients of a Payment Protection Insurance claims firm into her own bank account.read
This is the Marina d'Or 'Holiday City' in Oropesa del Mar, north of Valencia on Spain's Mediterreanan coast, which was to be one of the biggest high-density real estate projects of the country's boom.read
Rainer Hoss, whose grandfather Rudolf Hoss was the infamous commandant of Auschwitz, warned that he fears the rise of neo-Nazi extremists all across Europe.read
The former Conservative leader stated in his will that the property, next to Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, should be open for public viewing after his death in 2005.read
The entrepreneur revealed on Twitter that he was stopped by police for using the device in his car while dropping his son at a cricket match.read
Former Societe Generale trader Jerome Kerviel was shown in footage broadcast on French television crossing the border from Italy to France by foot late last night.read
George Simpson, 62, has been embroiled in an escalating row with staff over the care of his mother Morag, 85, at the Ferryfield House hospital, Edinburgh.read
The harrowing claim was made by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which says it is the true death toll for the three-year conflict.read
The undated picture was released by the North Korean's official news agency which said that the photo shows the 31-year-old touring a hospital specialising in the treatment of soldiers and their families, at an undisclosed location in North Korea.read
Mark Carney said he was prepared to take action on mortgages of more than four and a half times a borrower's salary as fears of a housing bubble threaten the recovery.read
Asking prices have soared by £9,409 in the last month - the largest ever monthly leap - according to property website Rightmove, which says demand is still outstripping supply.read
British airports couldn't compete with Singapore's Changi Airport, which has its own butterfly garden and took the top spot on Facebook.read
Welcome To New York, an American film starring Gerard Depardieu based on the sex-scandal that engulfed Strauss-Khan in 2011, has premiered at Cannes to mixed reviews.read
The camp was discovered near the town of Hachelbich in Thuringia, Germany, and is thought to have housed 5,000 Roman troops.read
The pretty coastal village of Bantham, which has its own beach, is up for sale and there has been interest fro around the world.read
Young royal cut a solemn figure as he viewed British war graves on the second day of his tour to Italy.read
Researchers at Monash University, in Melbourne, say bloating is probably caused foods such as these fermenting in the bowel.read
Josephine Mulry repeatedly punched 21-year-old Callum Budden and then bit off his ear lobe. The bloody piece of flesh was then apparently eaten by another club goer, Dorchester Crown Court heard.read
Twitter users are being asked to vote on new words for the 'Twictionary'. The winning word will be entered into the October 2014 Collins English Dictionary.read
The performer and TV presenter, who has appeared on Have I Got News For You for more than two decades, claims drunken hecklers have ruined the atmosphere of stand-up.read
Real Betis midfielder Alfred N'Diaye cradled a young fan to safety from the wreckage after the collapse of a fence in the stands of Osasuna's El Sadar Stadium.read
Carole Graham, from Durham, was tested for the killer cancer gene after her mother died from the disease and one of her six sisters was diagnosed. Doctors carrying out a preventative hysterectomy discovered she already have ovarian cancer, which could have gone unnoticed.read
Forget jetting away to find sun and tropical beaches, millions of Brits are now using their holidays as an opportunity to undergo cosmetic surgery.read
Despite the corporation promising to cut costs, the bill is up by 32 per cent in the past year, with up front costs of the upcoming World Cup in Brazil and Commonwealth Games in Glasgow being blamed.read
Pupils at West Horndon Primary School in Essex with a 97 per cent attendance record at the end of each half-term are rewarded with membership of 'The 99ers Club'.read
Synthia Nath thought she was the 2014 Miss Globe New Zealand until organisers told her 'another Indian girl' had actually won the pageant.read
Eloy Teruel screamed and pumped his fists in the air as he crossed what he thought was the finishing line of the prestigious event's seventh stage in Pasadena.read
The idea is being introduced as a pilot project at Lianshui County Chinese Medicine Hospital in east China's Jiangsu province where all staff working in the Chinese medicine ward are required to dress in the air hostess outfits.read
Comparing the 'terrifying' destruction to that of the country's 1992-95 war, authorities said the extent of the devastation became apparent in neighbouring Serbia too.read
Researchers at Loyola University Chicago say the findings may also help the 15 per cent of women who suffer from overactive bladder syndrome.read
Nicholas Winton, who saved the children on the eve of World War II, later received a letter saying that U.S. immigration laws meant that nothing could be done.read
Chelsey Jay, 23, from Witham, Essex, suddenly became confined to a wheelchair, and was forced to quit her modelling dreams.read
The scrappy puss, who has not yet been named, was born at the Wildlife Safari in Oregon on May 8 - the 174th birth at the park since 1972, when their cheetah breeding program began.read
The pair had been separated their mother in Kutai National Park, a vast expanse of supposedly protected tropical rainforest on the east coast of Borneo.read
Poppy the tortoiseshell cat from Bournemouth, Dorset, who was born in February 1990 and lived through five British prime ministers, has picked up the title.read
Japanese manufacturer Iris Ohyama has made a fan that tracks movement. The 'Human-sensing Oscillating Fan' uses infrared to point towards people.read
Orbs of light hovering above Hessdalen, Norway, (pictured) could be explained by metallic rocks and a sulphurous river running through it.read
Corey McCarthy of Phoenix, Arizona, has been charged with two counts of child abuse after he threw his daughter Mia into a swimming pool. He claims he was trying to teach her a lesson.read
Evolutionary biologists from Sussex, England, believe male bushcrickets treat their partner to dinner to prolong sex sessions and sperm transfer (pictured).read
EXCLUSIVE: Billy is an eight-year-old Jack Russell who lives with Carol Willacy, 45, in Lancashire. Ms Willacy has severe arthritis so Billy helps her with day to day tasks.read
The airport has reported a 'significant reduction' in alcohol-fuelled air rage incidents thanks to increased police patrols and cooperation from bars.read
How intensely a person responds to sexual images can be linked his or her number of sexual partners, according to a new study.read
The idea was first dreamt up in 1934 by two physicists, but they never expected anybody to be able to physically demonstrate their prediction.read
The High Street stalwart, which is part of the Alliance Boots group, could be taken over by rival Walgreens in a matter of months shaving millions off the tax bill of its US suitor.read
Authorities laid out their haul for the cameras in a bid to reinforce their determination to crack down on illicit drugs in the South American country, which was long the world's leading cocaine producer.read
Quentin Devine, from Surrey, used just a scalpel and magnifying glass to engrave the portraits of Paul Gascoigne, David Beckham, Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Wayne Rooney.read
German robot rockers Compressorhead comprises Four-armed Stickboy on drums, Bones on bass, and 79-diggited Fingers plays the guitar.read
Photos inside the estates designed by Bunny Mellon reveal the exquisite and inspired tastes in home and garden decor that made her the apple in Jackie Kennedy's eye.read
Paleontologists in Argentina's remote Patagonia region have discovered fossils of what was likely the largest dinosaur ever to roam the earth.read
Ever wonder what would happen if a garbage truck got converted into a mobile home? Well, the engineers at Germany heavy vehicle maker UNICAT have, creating a line of unusual-looking recreational vehicles that are definitely worlds away from a Winnebago.read
Art dealer Katie Heyring (right with her other pets) was on a countryside hike with daughter Kaia, seven, son Kaspar, five, and their five dogs when the snake struck her puppy Charlie (left).read
The sign was set up last week to flag potential delays caused by a fun run, but instead the ominous messages 'Godzilla Attack' and 'Turn Back' were displayed.read
Taken by photographer and brand strategist, Derrick Lin, 38, from Columbus, Ohio, each scene gives a snap shot into the everyday goings on of a busy marketing agency.read
Niu Tuan, 35, launched into a frenzied assault on Zhang Mintong when she saw him writing out a ticket for her illegally parked car in Haikou City, southern China.read
It’s considered the Everest of wall climbing. But these daredevils make scaling the 540ft Diga di Luzzone in Blenio, Switzerland, look easy.read
Sylvester the cheetah has formed a heart-warming bond with its trainer after being rescued as an orphaned cub. The four-year-old will happily sit side-by-side with 31-year-old Ed Oelofse, from Zimbabwe.read
Forget the Top of the Rock or the Empire State - the best view of the New York City on Sunday was from the air, as members of the Red Bull Air Force Wingsuit Flyers accomplished a dream of gliding over Manhattan.read