Czech Republic defender David Rozehnal is keen for a move to Newcastle United, according to his representatives. The 26-year-old's club Paris St Germain have yet to hold direct talks with the Magpies, ...

Sixteen-year-old Lydia Playfoot went to the High Court claiming that her school was discriminating against her by not allowing the wearing of a "purity ring". Young people must complete a course ...

A cat is baffling his owner by wandering off at night before expecting to be collected by car every morning at exactly the same time and place. Sgt Podge, a Norwegian Forest Cat, disappears from his ...

World renowned tenor Luciano Pavarotti has died at his home in the northern Italian city of Modena. The singer, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year, was 71. His charismatic performances ...

Winston Churchill is best remembered for stirring speeches and cigars. But the wartime leader also had a taste for exotic pets - one of which is still going strong. Charlie, a blue macaw bought by ...

A teenager has been jailed for life for the unprovoked and frenzied killing of a student and an attack on his friend. Michael Lynch, 17, was told he would serve a minimum of 15 years by the judge at ...

A court in Paris has convicted French oil company Total of "maritime pollution" over France's worst oil disaster in 1999. The tanker Erika sank 75km (45 miles) off the coast of Brittany, leaking ...

The failure to look at the potential dangers of a restraint method was one of the factors in the death of a boy at a detention centre, an inquest found. A jury ruled the death of 15-year-old Gareth ...

The votes-for-women movement exploded in popularity the UK in 1903 - hence this year's centenary celebrations - but the story of the campaign begins before the reign of Queen Victoria. In 1832, Lord ...

Two teenage girls in Western Australia have been sentenced to life in prison for killing a friend to see whether they would feel remorse at the deed. The girls, aged 16 at the time of the murder, ...

The HGC's report, compiled following a national consultation exercise, does not talk about individual family's cases. But it does consider the welfare of a child born as a saviour sibling, as part of ...

"No one can imagine that chimpanzees - young chimpanzees at the age of five - have a better performance in a memory task than humans. "Here we show for the first time that young chimpanzees have an ...