General News

Aid agencies are warning that Burma is on the brink of an unparalleled humanitarian disaster, with fears up to 1.5 million people could die if disease is allowed to take hold.

As Gordon Brown reads the papers today he could be forgiven for thinking he's still asleep ... having nightmares.

Zimbabwe police are reported to have arrested 56 opposition activists on charges of public violence.

Police say more than 600 female Tibetan protesters, many of them nuns, were detained in Nepal's capital while demonstrating against China's crackdown in their homeland.

Police are hunting a youth who killed a teenager during an argument in a bakery.

It's D-day in the Premier League this afternoon in one of the most dramatic finishes to the competition in its history.

Barack Obama has scored a crucial election victory over rival Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic nomination.

The White House has said it is deeply concerned about the violence in Sudan and has called on both sides to cease hostilities.

The house of Celtic manager Gordon Strachan has been broken into, police have said.

A post-mortem on a man killed in a London house explosion has revealed he died of neck wounds caused by debris.

A Briton who went missing and was feared kidnapped in the Philippines has made contact with an associate, the Foreign Office has said.

The teenage son of wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan has been jailed for causing a car crash which seriously injured his best friend.

No longer just a sweet memory, an old British favourite is back after a decade away.

Fierce battles between rival clans raged in northern Lebanon as the Hezbollah-led opposition said it was ending its takeover of west Beirut.

Another 3,000 post offices could be forced to close if subpostmasters lose the right to handle state pensions and benefit payments, the Government has been warned.

Anti-terror police are questioning a man who has previously claimed to have recruited hundreds of British Muslims to fight for al Qaeda.

The Duke of Edinburgh will be portrayed as a maverick environmental campaigner in a new two-part documentary.

A remote ranch used as a hideout by Charles Manson and his murderous "family" is to be excavated by police hunting for more bodies.

Supermarket chain Waitrose has recalled batches of organic eggs over fears that they may have been contaminated with lead.

Actress Uma Thurman is suing a French cosmetics firm for more than £7m, saying it used her name and face in adverts after her contract expired.