Spain is easily the favourite retirement hotspot for Britons, with some 13 per cent of those surveyed hoping to move to the sunny holiday destination.

The boy told police how he could hear his 39-year-old mother being told what to do as she gave him a 'sex lesson', Bristol Crown Court heard.

Three-year-old Kamal al-Bakri was brought to his mother, Dua, by his father, Mohammed, after his tiny body was pulled from the rubble of their house in Gaza City.

Bomb Gaza, which instructs users to 'drop bombs and avoid killing civilians', was reportedly downloaded around 1,000 times before it was pulled by Google's app store.

Jamie Moore was shot at five times, and hit in the legs twice after the attack in Marbella, where he has been training middleweight Matthew Macklin.

The Scottish First Minister will be forced to defend his dream of independence from forensic attacks by the former Labour Chancellor during the STV showdown.

Denning, 73, of Basildon in Essex, admitted 29 charges but denied a further 12. The offences he admitted involved boys aged from nine to 16.

Mohammed Yahia Abu El Gasim's family and friends are 'desperate' over his fate in eastern Ukraine after he was earlier wrongly reported to be dead by a rebel leader.

The moving letter was sent by Private Michael Lennon, of 1st Battalion the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, dated May 30 1915, who wrote to his brother Frank the day before he was due to land in Gallipoli.

The World War One poet spent much of 1913 in the South Pacific where he met and fell in love with a local woman named Taatamata.

Families are being asked to leave on a single light or candle to coincide with a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Westminster Abbey

Queen Elizabeth II attended a local service close to Balmoral at Crathie Kirk in Aberdeenshire, while Prince Philip was at Sandringham Church in Norfolk.

Thai medical authorities are threatening to take action against Pattaramon Janbua (pictured), 21, as the Ministry of Public Health cracks down on the 'illegal' surrogacy.

Benenden Health’s National Health Report 2014 questioned 4,000 people across the UK to take an in-depth look at the state of the nation’s health and wellbeing.

Kyle Darker, from Eccles, Salford, was found dead in his room by his mother Lorraine while he was temporarily excluded from school.

The London Mayor will use a speech in London tomorrow to back a report claiming that leaving the EU would be better than staying in an unreformed institution.

A pathologist has claimed actress Brittany Murphy's death could have been avoided had her mother called an ambulance 24 hours before she collapsed.

The Munich state court has yet to decide whether to approve the deal, with a decision expected later today.

Amal El-Wahabi, 27, of north west London, allegedly asked Nawal Msaad to take the cash to Turkey at the request of Aine Davis, known by his Muslim name Hamza.

The groundbreaking procedure was an attempt to save the patient's left foot with the aim of reattaching it once it had recovered from the trauma.

The new machines can penetrate five times the amount of fat and scan at twice the speed. The NHS already spends £5.1billion a year treating obesity-related illnesses.

Perhaps influenced by media images of pop stars leading lives of luxury, 25% of children either want to be 'famous' or 'not work at all'.

The plane refueled at 8am after arriving from Liberia on its journey to Atlanta, Georgia where missionary worker Nancy Writebol will be treated.

Derek Grant, of Greenock, Renfrewshire, demanded his son's handset from thief Patrick Bradley – who then blinded the father-of-four in one eye by stabbing him in the face.

The Gemini Observatory in Hawaii captured a massive volcano on the moon Io (shown). The huge outpouring of heat was hotter than anything on modern Earth.

The Chancellor said there was a 'real choice' between spending on road and rail projects and using public money for rising benefits payments 'trapping people in poverty'.

Michael Thomas, 40, unwittingly stored an unexploded pipe bomb in his garden shed in Warmley, Bristol, for seven years after making it as part of a science experiment.

Staff at the brand's factory in Shepton Mallet in Somerset, pictured, are now screened for the condition, which if left untreated can be fatal.

Elaine McKay, of Clacton, Essex, is accused of starting a relationship with the teenager while she was working at Clacton Coastal Academy.

The Great British Bake Off is back tomorrow, this time on BBC1 - but its effect has already taken over supermarkets, with sales of baking kit through the roof.

Qajaq reflects the Inuit roots of kayak and would require a blank tile since Scrabble sets include just one Q. But it's a rare word starting with 'q' that doesn't require a 'u'.

The businessman who has built his own toll road around a road closure in Somerset should be knighted in the next honours’ list. He is an inspiration. WRITES MELISSA KITE.

Santosh Benjamin-Muthiah, 36, and his wife Jennifer were pulled unconscious from their burning home in Wealdstone after managing to get their two young daughters to safety.

Holly Temple, 17, from Woking, Surrey, took regular selfies of her shrinking frame as motivation to continue to lose more weight.

Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California developed the 'acoustic bottle' to make objects invisible to sonar detection.

The hack (pictured) was demonstrated to Wired by security researcher Silvio Cesare ahead of his talk at this week’s Black Hat conference in Vegas. Stock image pictured.

Kevin Garratt, 54, and Julia Dawn Garratt, 53, who have four children, moved from Vancouver to China in 1984 and run a coffee shop in Dandong just across the border from North Korea. 

Archaeologists discovered treasures ranging from weapons to musical instruments, which were buried with king Liu Fei in an area of modern day Xuyi County, China.

The Oculus Rift Developer Kit 2 (DK2) is now being shipped to developers. It was taken apart by California-based repair site iFixit. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 screen is pictured.

Officers said the emergency services were called to an address in picturesque Whipley Bank, at Ripley, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, on Sunday night.

A two-star general was shot dead in Afghanistan on Tuesday and 15 other soldiers wounded when a man dressed in an Afghan Army uniform opened fire on Tuesday at a military academy.

Helen Corbett, of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, missed 46-year-old Peter Bailey’s private parts with the scorching liquid but caused serious burns to his thighs which left his skin peeling off.

Glenda Roots, landlady of The Somerhill, in Tonbridge, Kent, was bitten on her arm and as she slept in a chair.

Researcher Ronald Dorn from Arizona discovered that ants (pictured) convert minerals found in sand into limestone, and during the conversion, carbon dioxide is trapped.

Designer Katy Bell from London upcycles broken umbrellas, empty coffee sacks, factory off-cuts and even high-visibility jackets to create her handbag collections.

Boyfriend Mitch arranged a day out at Pittsburgh Zoo in Pennsylvania, US, for his girlfriend Casey, but little did she know it was no ordinary day out.

Fines of £100 a time were handed out when drivers stayed beyond the permitted period at car parks belonging to Chiltern Railways managed by Met Parking Services.

An advert in the magazine mistakenly used a photograph of Bennetts Water Gardens in Dorset instead of the actual garden where the paintings were produced in Giverny, France

The move comes on the day that Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond faces leader of the Better Together campaign Alistair Darling in a televised debate just weeks before the referendum.

Berlin-based hacker, Ruben Santamarta. says he's figured out how to hack equipment on passenger jets through their WiFi and calls for tightened security.

The widowed Afghan princess wife of the man known as the 'Last Ottoman Sultan' is battling eviction from her $390 a month rent-controlled Manhattan apartment.

The boys aged between seven and ten found the hair tress, one of the earliest ever pieces of metal work in the UK while digging in Kirkhaugh, Northumberland.

Liam Lyons was fatally injured by a rotary mower at the rear of a tractor while a meadow was being mown yesterday afternoon in Co. Offaly.

Raju - who spent decades bound in cruel chains - and cried when charity workers finally set him free - is now part of a herd at an elephant sanctuary in Mathura, northern India.

Anorexic women have a sense of pride over being able to maintain and exceed their weight-loss goals, scientists at Rutgers University, New Jersey, found.

Elaine McKay, 58, is accused of starting a sexual relationship with the 15-year-old while working at the 1,700-pupil Clacton Coastal Academy in Essex.

Private schools Eton, Westminster and St Paul’s and two elite sixth-form colleges supplied 260 Oxbridge entrants in 2011/12 the same as 1,800 state schools across England.

The adrenaline junkies were filmed flying down a zipwire attached to the 800-foot White Tower skyscraper in Panama City, Panama.

While researchers continue to demystify the workings of the brain, many myths persist about its structure and function.

The report, by ABTA showed that as many 72 per cent of Conservative MPs are planning on a trip overseas over the summer compared to 63 per cent of Labour MPs.

The French Riviera is known as one of the most stylish destinations in Europe, but tourists say that a wall of stones at the entrance to the sea could cause injuries and even drowning.

Patricia Krenwinkel, 67, claims it was her Los Angeles childhood upbringing that led her to fall so easily under Manson's deadly trance.

A Lego toy set that includes female scientists hard at work was released by the toy company on Friday and is out of stock.

The latest ICAEW/Grant Thornton business confidence monitor index, despite remaining close to an all-time high, fell to 32.3 this quarter from 37.3 last quarter.

The company behind these domed properties claims there is no end to the construction possibilities, with plans for a Caribbean retreat and a mountain wellness centre.

The State Department has now launched an investigation after one of CNN's foreign correspondents allegedly bit two medical workers during a drunken fit at the US Embassy in Baghdad.

The Honda Civic and the Peugeot 308 are the best family hatchbacks money can buy when it comes to fuel economy, according to research from What Car?

Melissa Causer's shoe pierced Sophie Robinson's eyeball, causing a split 12mm in length and 13mm deep, after a row over a taxi fare outside her home in Darlington.

A passionate musician and married father of three has shocked doctors in Boston with his incredible recovery and spirit following an experimental bilateral mid-forearm transplant.

Forrest Galante been bitten by a venomous snake, mauled by a lion and even survived a plane crash in Zimbabwe during his quest to meet fascinating wildlife while exploring the planet.

Growing concerns about meeting mortgage payments and the environmental impact of large houses has helped fuel a new movement of people who are happy to live small.

Over 60 million people worldwide go without footwear. In a new campaign Shoe Aid hopes to raise awareness of this problem by encouraging people to post pictures of their naked feet.

In September, the the tribe celebrate the Xina Bena Festival, giving the western world an opportunity to gain an insight into their fascinating culture.