The Duke of Edinburgh appeared in good health as he joined the rest of the Royal Family for the New Year's Day service at Sandringham. While the Qu...
Keepers at a Milwaukee zoo have launched an 'Apps for Apes' project which could see Orangutans being given iPads to video-chat with primates in other ...
A student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created an 'almost self-balancing' electric unicycle which he uses to zip around the MIT ca...
2012 got off to a dramatic start in Melbourne -- when a misfiring celebratory firework is thought to have set fire to a landmark and arts centre. M...
Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of the capital today to watch the New Year's Day Parade celebrating the start of the Olympic year. ...
A soldier killed in an explosion in Afghanistan was named today as Private John King, 19. The serviceman, from 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment...
Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell has been cleared of child sex allegations. The actor, who has played mechanic Kevin Webster in the soap for...
A British national has been arrested by police in Costa Rica in connection with the murder of a young Czech woman, according to reports. The man, n...
A 20-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve, who was shot dead on Boxing Day. Mr Bidve, 23, was shot at close r...
A man has died following a disturbance at a New Year party attended by more than 400 people. South Yorkshire Police launched a murder investigation...
Residents of Beebe, Arkansas were left mystified today after thousands of dead blackbirds dropped from the sky during New Year’s Eve celebrations. ...
David Cameron has pledged to use the "global drama" of the Olympics and Queen's Diamond Jubilee to help get Britain back on track. In his New Year ...
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has joined Twitter. The 80-year-old News Corp. CEO’s account emerged in the final hours of 2011 and includes musings ...
Members of the public are being urged not to give the kiss of life during CPR but to concentrate instead on chest compressions. People should skip ...
Whether you've delivered them yourself or been on the receiving end, we're all familiar with the stomach-wrenching breakup text. It's a cold way t...
A criminal suspect who allegedly belonged to a cult that carried out the 1995 Tokyo sarin gas attack was turned away by police when he tried to give h...
A seven-year-old girl who was attacked by a kangaroo in Australia has told how she thought the animal was going to kill her. Makayla McEvoy suffer...
Australia's biggest snake - Atomic Betty - has tipped the scales at 137kg at her annual weigh in today. The reticulated python, who measures 6.5me...
Is your Second World War history sketchy? Or did you not pay attention in class? Help is at hand thanks for a Twitter account that is livetweeting the...
The offside rule is explained on a new 50p coin which is part of a Royal Mint collection showcasing the 2012 Olympics. Designed by London journali...
A video featuring two glowing lights zipping across a foggy Scottish sky is promising to have UFO sighting groups into a lather. The footage was r...
The world’s first hybrid shark – a cross between two different species of black tip – has been found off the coast of Australia. Scientists ...
An online seller endured a “heartbreaking” experience after claiming PayPal made a buyer destroy her $2,500 violin because it was deemed “counte...
An hilarious spoof list of members of urban music collective So Solid Crew is causing mirth on Twitter. The list, which was hastily taken down, fea...
Egyptian prosecutors have demanded the death sentence for former president Hosni Mubarak. They are calling for the same for additional defendants,...
