Aid agencies are stepping up their relief efforts to help those caught in the devastation wrought by the Burma cyclone.

The number of homeowners at risk of losing their homes has risen by nearly a fifth in the past year.

Government staff have been sending out highly sensitive data in packages that include the passwords.

Two teenagers have been given life sentences for the murder of a schoolboy.

The BBC failed to pay £106,000 to charity from phone votes in over 20 programmes, including last year's UK Eurovision final, it said.

The house at the centre of a mystery explosion was the target of a vandalism attack hours earlier when a purple liquid was poured through the letterbox, police have said.

British Airways will start transferring its Heathrow long-haul flights to the ill-starred new Terminal 5 (T5) on June 5.

A Filipino man has lost his right to remain in Britain - because his wife was killed by an NHS blunder.

Barrister Mark Saunders was hit at least five times by police marksmen during a shoot-out at his home, an inquest has heard.

Boris Johnson, London's new Conservative mayor, has handed his New York counterpart Michael Bloomberg a novelty shirt of the London Underground, as the pair met to discuss the challenges of running a world class city.

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