Fundamentalist minister Terry Jones is to ignore warnings from the White House, army generals and thousands of demonstrators across the Middle East to go ahead with his intended Burn-a-Koran Day.
A journalist held hostage for five months sent a message via Twitter that he was alive after his captors asked him how to access the web on a mobile phone.
A single mother has been left in fear of losing her home to bailiffs after bureaucrats cut her working tax credits – because they thought she was dead.
A father and son have drowned off Spain's Costa del Sol after the younger man attempted to save his dad struggling in rough waters, it has been reported.
Fears are growing for a 14-year-old girl who has run away from home with her baby daughter. Tinishya Marshall and her 11-month-old Sophie are believed to be with an older teenager.
Gary Higgs stabbed his girlfriend with a kitchen knife twice and choked her to death after she called out another man's name during sex, he admitted to police.
Tony Blair has been compared to a 'tiger' by TV presenter Holly Willoughby as he revealed more bedroom secrets, but his roar turned into a whimper as he cancelled yet another event to mark the launch of his new book because of protests.
A couple who put five lizards in a bin liner and dumped them in a hedge were caught after their fingerprints were found on the bag, a court heard yesterday.