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The Prime Minister's remarks came after the official threat level was raised from substantial to severe - the second highest - amid fears over extremists returning from Middle East.read

Police in Hampshire today have launched a 'major investigation' to find Ashya King, who has a brain tumour and was taken without consent from Southampton General Hospital by his parents.read

The FCA has demanded banks, credit card companies and lenders reconsider two-and-a-half million complaints about mis-sold payment protection insurance.read

A slick English-language magazine released by Al-Qaeda's media wing has called on wannabe jihadists to target British department stores in bomb attacks.read

The BBC sci-fi show starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman has been branded it 'insensitive' following a scene which left sufferers of trichotillomania 'upset' and 'uncomfortable'.read

The boy went missing off the coast at Aberffraw, Anglesey, North Wales at about 12.30pm today. Helicopter crews (pictured) are involved in the search.read

A 31-year-old woman from Anglesey was filmed by her boyfriend abusing his three-year-old daughter and was warned by a Judge at Caernarfon Crown Court today that she is likely to face jail.read

Chris Awdry, 53, from Wiltshire, took direct action when the travellers - who had arrived with six caravans - told him he would need a court order to move them on.read

Most of us have given up on our summer diets but there's no rest for Britain's fittest women who all say exercise was their saving grace when they were at their lowest.read

Tests on accessories manufactured by RMS International (not pictured) - which also trades with Asda, Tesco and Argos - found dangerous levels of two banned chemicals.read

The average bonus for bankers and insurance workers was £13,300 between May last year to April, while that of public sector workers the lowest at around £100 on average.read

Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and University of California, said ‘thriving’ involves five components of wellbeing, including learning new skills (stock image pictured).read

A pedestrian walking past the £15.5 million home Sam Taylor-Johnson shares with her husband, Kick Ass actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson, spotted the M16 rifle on a desk and called 999.read

The 42-year-old victim, named only as Warren, was unconscious when emergency crews arrived at his house in Spalding, Lincolnshire, after a suspected break-in.read

ao.com had its best ever day for vacuum cleaner sales as customers rushed to get hold of a model with a high wattage before they are banned by the EU. Tesco saw sales leap by 44%.read

Father-of-four Dr Mohammad Tariquezzaman watched the young woman undress and asked for her phone number during the consultation at University College Hospital, London.read

Passenger Edmund Alexandre, 61, became upset after a woman reclined the seat in front of him on an American Airlines flight from Miami to Paris Wednesday night.read

Beauty pageant organisers bought May Myat Noe, 18, a £6,000 boob job to make the Burmese model 'more beautiful' after her win - but have dethroned her for 'lying' to them.read

The video, set to video game-style music, speeds up a day at the Flamingo Oasis hotel in Benidorm, showing the battle to reserve sunloungers as soon as the pool opens.read

Debbie Barker, 43, has been jailed for three years after the crash in the Yorkshire Dales which killed her friend Tom Bannister, who she was giving a lift from his Coniston Hotel.read

EXCLUSIVE: Dr Sarah Wollaston told MailOnline that too many special offers were on crisps, sweets and fizzy drinks, which encouraged cash-strapped shoppers to have a poor diet.read

Louis Bunn (pictured), 23, was ejected from the Leo Leisure Bingo hall in Eastbourne in the middle of the game after staff thought his involuntary tics were deliberate efforts to disrupt people.read

Research by University of Copenhagen offers new theories about the disappearance of Paleo-Eskimos, 700 years ago. This coincided with the arrival of modern Eskimos (pictured).read

EXCLUSIVE: Kimberley Wallwork, from Lancashire, used to watch in despair as her son Oliver scratched his skin until it bled - and then cried in pain.read

The pro-Union campaign now has a six percentage point lead over the independence campaign, but this is down from a 14-point lead enjoyed after the first television debate.read

Adverts offering the chance to buy a vote in the September 18 ballot were spotted and quickly removed by the online auction site as Police Scotland confirmed today they were investigating.read

Jim Murphy said he had been challenged to fights, labelled a ‘terrorist’ and ‘defender of paedophiles’, while staff had been abused for being English or Northern Irishread

Maureen McKenna and a mystery accomplice took 40 minutes to steal the turf from a neighbour during the 5am raid in Skelmersdale, Lancashire.read

Islamic State have released a new decapitation video, threatening America for the second time and urging the Kurds to break from their alliance with the West against the caliphate.read

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Hamas of needlessly extending fighting in the Gaza Strip, causing a high death toll.read

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Egypt's most dangerous militant group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis has released the video, in which they accuse the four men of spying for Israel's Mossad spy agency.read

'I don't want to put the cart before the horse,' Obama said at the White House. 'We don't have a strategy yet. We need to make sure we've got clear plans, and we're developing them.'read

President Barack Obama took the podium this afternoon to address serious foreign policy issues, but all anyone could talk about was the commander-in-chief's taupe two-piece.read

Judge David Wynn Morgan tore into solicitor-advocate Alan Blacker, who bears a striking resemblance to Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, after a trial at Cardiff Crown Court.read

Hayley Edwards, 31, from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, right, wants GPs better trained to spot milk allergies in babies after her son Nathan, left, developed one at just three week's old.read

The brightest girls at top independent school, Guildford High School, were marked down in their language GCSE's because of 'erratic' marking, it has been claimed.read

Dennis Harold, 60, from Dagenham, Essex, paid 'wages' to fake staff at recruitment firm Devonshire then squandered the cash on chauffeur-driven cars and betting.read

Taxi driver Mohammed Irfan, 42, was distractedly chatting to a female passenger when he mowed down Shaun Hodgkinson in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire on October 27 last year.read

The operation is aimed at combating the 'offensive consequences' caused by beggars harassing shopkeepers, local residents and tourists in hotspots such as Marble Arch in London.read

Villagers in Johnsonville Township, outside capital Monrovia, say packs of wild dogs are dragging corpses from a specially-designated 'Ebola graveyard' into the open and feeding on their flesh.read

Researchers at the Broad Institute in Massachusetts and Harvard University say the Ebola virus (shown) is mutating rapidly. The findings show it is becoming more difficult to diagnose and treat.read

Mark Laidler, 35, received a suspended sentence at South Tyneside Magsitrates' Court following the confrontation with Team GB's Amanda Lightfoot, 27.read

Tom Hannah, 73, from Rosyth, Fife, was told he cannot have a permit because he could 'walk 20 yards' - even though the lower part of both of his legs have been amputated.read

Roger Lord (top right) said he will fight Mr Carswell (with Nigel Farage centre) for the UKIP nomination in Clacton ahead of the forthcoming by-election, expected to held on October 9.read

Mr Carswell returned to his Clacton constituency this morning with UKIP leader Nigel Farage. It came as the multi-millionaire UKIP donor Stuart Wheeler confirmed that he had wined and dined around eight backbench Tory MPs in an attempt to encourage them to switch allegiance. He added that there were 'another eight I could have easily taken out'.read

David Cameron was at Chequers preparing for a difficult trip to defend the Union in Scotland when the bombshell dropped.read

Joan Rivers is 'resting comfortably' in a medically induced coma just hours after she performed a typically acerbic show in Manhattan and joked about her own death.read

Research published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology suggests that a 'caretonoid' glow signals health to potential mates and increases attractiveness.read

Katy Spence, 34, from Boston, Lincs. has been able to kit out her entire home with prizes she has amassed by entering up to 100 competitions each day.read

Researchers led by the University of Barcelona used EEG headsets (pictured) to record electrical activity in the brain, and convert the words ‘hola’ and ‘ciao’ into binary.read

Apple's much anticipated health monitoring iWatch is set to be unveiled on September 9th - but you won't be able to buy in until 2015.read

The California-based company is currently testing a feature on its mobile app that allows users to search through old posts from friends using keywords about people or events.read

The beleaguered airline is offering a sale from Heathrow Airport to Kuala Lumpur and nine other destinations in Malaysia, with return economy class flights selling for as little as £570 on select dates.read

Naomie Greenslade, 22, was attacked with a large butcher's knife after she refused to hand over her bag to a mugger while walking home after a meal in Marrakesh, Morocco.read

Ged Fitzgerald, now head of Liverpool council, presided in Rotherham for a two-year period between 1997 and 2013 when the abuse of 1,400 girls at the hands of Asian gangs went uninvestigated.read

A woman who was groomed by a convicted criminal at the age of 14 claims authorities in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, did little to help her.read

Umar Razaq, 28, was jailed in 2010 in a case that lifted the lid on the horrific extent of sexual exploitation in the South Yorkshire town.read

Officials are said to have ordered a raid on the town's young people's service centre and seized nothing but the details of victims, offenders, and grooming cases that would have contributed to a landmark report in 2000.read

Putin made the remarks after Nato accused the former Soviet state of a 'blatant violation' of Ukraine's sovereignty by deploying heavily-armed troops to help rebels.read

The AIS ship tracking system used by the U.S. Coast Guard showed no position for the United Kalavrvta on Thursday, which was carrying a million barrels when it went missing off Texas.read

Playboy covergirl Brandi Brandt has been jailed for more than three years for conspiring to import cocaine on planes bound for Australia.read

Kids do the darndest things, we show you some of the funniest pictures of kids getting stuck in funny situations. From getting stuck in a toilet to getting trapped in an arcade game.read

Tesco said its new chief executive Dave Lewis will now start work on Monday, a month earlier than planned, in order to commence a review of 'every aspect' of the group's operations.read

The average house price across the UK rose £357, or 0.8 per cent, in August. This is up from the 0.2 per cent rise in July, and marks the sixteenth monthly increase in a row.read

Torrential rain hit Shijiazhuang city, Hebei province, on Thursday night, but the railway station, which is only two years old, was not up to the job of keeping passengers dry.read

Scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory examined the complex interaction between humans and the microbes that live on and around us (illustrated).read

California researchers claim that the human 'anger face' is actually universal.read

The man was caught on CCTV as he pulled the gates out of the ground and bent them before creeping inside London Victoria station after he was told it was closed for cleaning.read

The images, brought over from Europe by late Staff Sgt. Paul T. Lipari, depict Hitler petting a fawn, celebrating his birthday with friends and shaking hands with workers.read

Research done this week shows that one in four employees have bent the rules when making an expenses claim at work, with one in five people not even feeling guilty about the fiddle. read

Will Blencowe, 21, pictured, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, stabbed 17-year-old Connor Tremble multiple times at the victim's flat after finding out he was dating his ex, Aimee Harrison, 20.read

Around 60 healthy volunteers will be given the vaccine next month in a trial led by Oxford University scientists.read

Researchers from the University of Gothenberg studied 76 children aged 10 and 11. Data was collected via questionnaires and a language diary. Stock image pictured.read

Yasmin Jones, 22, from Glastonbury, Somerset, was killed by a train while trying to rescue her boss's dog at Fisherman's level crossing between Freshfield and Ainsdale in Lancashire on Tuesday.read

On screen, Steve McQueen was the King of Cool. With his blond hair, blazing blue eyes and chiselled features, his face was more eloquent than any of the lines written for him.read

Malcolm Airey, 27, from Glasgow, and Chris Walton, 43, from Dorset, completed the challenge in bold fashion by tipping freshly dug ice over themselves at the British Antarctic Survey.read

Which? magazine’s investigation explored how TVs from LG (stock image pictured), Samsung, Sony, Panasonic and Toshiba were tracking their owners in the UK.read

Presenter Kirsty Wark and baker Iain Watters both wore aprons in the three minute segment as they discussed the scandal and ate some of the 31-year-old's best cakes.read

Jackie Murphy, right, only had £10 in her purse when she handed over a fiver for the lucky scratchcard in Shawbury, Shropshire. Now she plans a free bar to wed fiance John Potter, left.read

Caroline Roberts, now 59, suffered an appalling 12-hour ordeal at the Wests' hands but says she still feels guilty about what happened to other victims.read

Campaigners stamping anti-Israel, pro-Palestine messages on bank notes could be prosecuted for defacing currency, the Bank of England has warned.read

Fitness fans struggle to lose weight as they consume more calories than they burn off - 54 per cent treat themselves to fattening snacks after exercise.read

Workers at EE's call centre in Darlington engaged in 'occasional incidents of banter' to lighten up the 'somewhat mundane' work, the hearing in Teesside heard.read

The 12-year-old boy, who has not yet been formally identified, sustained fatal injuries after being hit by a skip lorry on a pedestrian crossing in Exeter, Devon.read

Researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University have developed a smart heads-up-display for cars (shown). It can alert drivers to other cars on the road in poor weather conditions.read

One of Britain's most respected car designers has given the classic Jaguar Mark 2 a 21st-century makeover before unveiling it in Shropshire this week.read

Kim Wall, 40, from Rochdale, has suffered with crippling pain, nausea, fatigue and low self-confidence since undergoing a gastric bypass operation.read

A lawsuit filed against Fifa by the group argues the governing body hasn't done enough to protect players from the medical risks of heading the ball.read

Photographs taken by a British explorer in 1951 that ignited worldwide debate over the existence of the Yeti in the Himalayas are being auctioned by Christie's.read

Dave MacLean of the Centre of Geographic Sciences in Nova Scotia has made an interactive space image map (shown). The map compiles images from tweets sent by astronauts.read

Sean Conway, 33, had already swum and cycled the length of the UK when he injured his ankle by tripping over a rock during the final stage of his triathlon - a run from John O'Groats to Land's End.read

The thief crashed the 50-year-old Mercedes-Benz 230 SL - worth about £70,000 - into a tree in Osielsko, north Poland, but his accomplice got away.read

Austin Beerworks, who are based in Austin are producing the massive packs of their Peacemaker beer, which comes in a seven foot long box and is on sale for $99.read

Kimberly Gale, 30, was more than twice the legal limit when she got behind the wheel and wrecked her 4x4 after a night out in Plymouth, Devon.read

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Claire Hawker, 30, from Reading, had been recommended the cosmetic surgeon in Prague by a friend and was initially delighted with her new figure.read

A study by Walking for Health revealed physical activity as a ‘wonder drug’, with those diagnosed with breast and prostate cancers able to cut their risk of death by up to 40 per cent.read

Lesley Pleasant, 57, from Shepton Mallet in Somerset was almost stuck in hospital for her daughter's wedding. Doctors advise paying attention to scratches, no matter how small.read

Meet Malaysians Harun Muhammad and his apprentice son Zuraini, believed to be the only active practitioners of the mysterious and dying local art of 'fish listening'.read

Dan Maurer, 39, from Battle Creek, Michigan, flew out to California Thursday to undergo a risky operation to remove a massive growth on his scrotum.read

From December, Jeremy Hunt has promised that a set of basic food standards will be written into every NHS trust's contract, with fines for those who breach them.read

This inventor is one step closer to producing hoverbikes for people, but for now sci-fi fanatics can buy a 1/3-size prototype that flies up to 145mph.read

A survey by ITV's This Morning shows that 60 per cent of children are petrified of playground bullies. While their parents are most worried about the danger of strangers on the way home.read

Malaysia Airlines is to axe a third of its workers as it struggles to overcome the twin disasters that have hit it in the past six months, killing 537 passengers and crew.read

The £6.5 billion Thameslink rail project will connect multiple regional destinations on either side of the city for the first time with Tube-like service frequency when complete in 2018.read

The former pub Gasthaus zur Pommer, in Braunau-Am-Inn, has been empty for three years. On Friday a meeting was held in the town to discuss the private venture to strip it of its allure for the far-right.read

Donna Tithecott, 54, from Lifton in Devon failed to tell the authorities she part-owned three properties in Spain whilst claiming benefits - which are expected to take her '130 years to repay'.read

Tax discs are bought and traded by collectors called velologists - and their numbers are on the rise. The right vintage and condition discs are worth hundreds of pounds.read

The device, dubbed Kazbrella (pictured) was created by 61-year-old aeronautical engineer Jenan Kazim from Hertfordshire after his mother-in-law complained about dripping umbrellas.read

The police have issued an official warning urging people to beware the dangers of having a one-night stand. It came after a married man was robbed of his wallet and phone after a one-night stand.read

Alicia Louise Cipicchio, an artist from Jackson, Wyoming described by friends as 'sweet, loving and adventurous', was hit by the vehicle in the Nevada desert on Thursday.read

Mark Chapman appeared in court last week when he was denied parole.read

University of Cambridge researchers found women without educational qualifications beyond the age of 15 had significantly higher levels of 'bad' cholesterol.read

The 14-year-old mammal was eventually caught staring into the elephant enclosure where her neighbour enjoys a luxurious deep plunge pool at the Kaliningrad zoo in west Russia.read

New research revealed the E-Type, launched in 1961, is the most iconic car ever, topping a top ten list including the Mini, Rolls Royces and the VW Beetle.read

The L1 fragrance has top notes of lime, ginger, cardamom and pink pepper and a base including incense, styrax, white musk accord, and tobacco.read

Charles Vacca, 39, a father and retired army general, was teaching a young girl how to fire an Uzi at Bullets and Burgers range in White Hills, Arizona on Monday when she lost control of the gun.read

Physicists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have detected neutrinos created in the sun's core (illustration shown) for the first time.read

The worker was eventually hauled on to an 11th floor balcony in Guizhou province, southern China, by firemen and police officers after the 40-minute ordeal.read

Lilia Ratmanski, 25, (left) and Milana Muzikante, 26, (right), living in Canada but originally from Ukraine and Latvia respectively, were on a Cuba-bound flight when they started brawling mid-air.read

The stuffed animal - aka Bobbie -  was rescued by Trish and Drew Dingwall, who whisked him off to the popular holiday spot, where they took photos of him to send back home.read

As the storm moves across the Atlantic, it is set to create an area of high pressure, bringing settled conditions to the UK next week. But heavy showers are expected to last until Monday.read

Passers-by in Zhejiang, an eastern coastal province in China, called the emergency services when they found the man stuck fast and unconscious after a night on the town.read

Pomegranates may help stop the spread of Alzheimer’s disease researchers at the University of Huddersfield claim.read

Solar power company Belectric has launched a mini-bond called the Big60million, giving the UK population the chance to invest in its site in Willersley, Gloucestershire.read

The Ardbeg Distillery on the Scottish island of Islay, sent compounds of unmatured malt to the International Space Station in October 2011. The director of whisky creation is pictured.read

Queen Silvia and Princess Madeleine of Sweden boycotted this week's Polar Music Prize ceremony after hearing of Chuck Berry's conviction from 1960.read

Mark Bidwell, 33, from Bristol, suffered lethargy, diarrhoea and abdominal pain while on the ‘nightmare’ trip with his pregnant partner Nicola Greathurst.read

EXCLUSIVE: Doctors from Dr Newmans Clinic, who run thread vein removal clinics across the UK, say the stomach is now the most common area for removal of thread veins after face and legs.read

The breathtaking footage - filmed from a camera on his head - shows the hiker's shoes as he carefully makes his way up the Stetinden mountain, in Oppland, southern Norway.read

It may just sound like baby talk, but mothers who hold a ‘conversation’ with their infants are actually teaching them to speak more quickly.read

Jesse Helt, 22, walked into Polk County Jail in Dallas, Oregon, Thursday. He is expected to be released after posting $2,500 bail.read

YouTube user Julie Bresnan has uploaded a cringe-worthy video of her unknowingly licking bird poo from the top of her ice cream. Standing in front of the beautiful Mission Bay beach in Auckland, New Zealand, the video 'Licking bird poo and wearing it too :(' shows Julie talking to the camera before taking a lick of her ice cream coated in bird poo.read

Scientists have worked out the exact temperature it needs to be before holidaymakers fancy a frozen treat - with July seeing 3,243 tonnes of ice cream made every week.read

Suzuki is recalling their 2010 to 2013 Kizashi models in the US after discovering spiders are attracted into the exhaust and are weaving webs inside putting vehicles at risk of fire.read

Research from 2012 found that just a third would brave the shops on their own to buy pants, instead relying on their mothers, wives and girlfriends to do it for them.read

The two 14-year-olds were caught stealing ducks from the village pond. The village head called the pair 'delinquents' and suggested they might think twice about stealing something again.read

Alison Malcolm, 66, bought the 424-pipe Victorian instrument for her house in Alderbury, Wiltshire, from a church 20 years ago for just £500 after they wanted to clear room for renovations.read

Anthony Marsh (pictured) earns £232,000 as head of both the West Midlands and East of England ambulance services - £90,000 more than the Prime Minister.read

Texas-based internet cartographer and computer scientist John Matherly used software to ‘ping’ global web devices to build a map (pictured) demonstrating the internet's global reach.read

It's a dramatic way to make your point, but this brand manager decided to prove he believed in his cleaning product by eating off the floor of the Subway after using it.read

The Primetime Emmy statues are manufactured by R.S. Owens & Company based out of Chicago, Illinois, which is also charged with manufacturing the Academy Award statues.read

About 20 per cent of 11-year-olds failed to achieve the expected level for their age in reading, writing and maths, despite improved results overall in national curriculum tests this year.read

Richard Silver has snapped the Houses of Parliament, Rome's Coliseum and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai using his 'timeslice' method.read

A ban was imposed in January 2013 amid fears for the future of the country's population of big cats.read

Johannes Schrieber, 26, and brother Daniel, 28, from Frankfurt, Germany constructed a 1,100lbs catapult out of wood and old bicycle tubes.read

Fans are queuing up to throw themselves off the 720ft-high Contra Dam, also known as the Verzasca Dam, on the Verzasca River in Ticino, Switzerland.read

German researchers have created Google Glass software that can analyse facial expression - and even tell you how old somebody is.read

Birk Mobius snapped the perfectly timed photo at a small airfield just outside of Leipzig as a bolt of lightning hit one end of the plane and shot out the other end as it flew through stormy weather.read

Hundreds of dolphins are seen diving through the sparkling waters as they migrate along the Eastern Cape of South Africa.read

A US zoo employee sustained hand injuries when an alligator bit down on his hand and the attack was captured on videoread

Colin Meyrick, 46, from Llanhilleth, South Wales, agreed to have 30 litres poured over his head on one condition - all the money raised would go to a cancer charity in memory of his late mother. read

'I don't like the way things are run here anymore - I'm going to see if Nigel Farage will have me.'read

The two ferocious brothers were snapped fighting each other over claim of a female lioness in Kenya. Just 15 minutes later, the triumphant brother mated with his lioness as a prize.read