A health watchdog is to target firms to raise awareness about the dangers of high levels of radon gas in premises. The ...

The top political stories from the BBC News website for the week ending October 2 - set to music. The Daily Mail's Quentin Letts reviews the ups and downs of the Labour conference week in Brighton.

A man has been jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering his wife and three children. Rahan Arshad, 36, beat his family to death with a rounders bat at their home in Cheadle Hulme, Greater ...

Charlotte joined the BBC soon after graduating from University and is one of four newsreaders based permanently at the News Centre at White City.

A teacher who killed his wife then cut up her body and hid it in a freezer has been jailed for five years. Paul Dalton, 35, from Kingston, south-west London, said he punched Tae Hui during a row. He ...

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A brief history of the dramatic and violent changes that took place as the Yugoslav Federation disintegrated during the 1990s. Yugoslavia was first formed as a kingdom in 1918 and then recreated as a ...

Former world boxing champion Naseem Hamed has been jailed for dangerous driving after a crash which left another driver severely injured. Hamed, 32, from Dore in Sheffield, was sentenced to 15 months ...

But five years ago, her troubled family finances drove her into the risky trade. "You don't want your children to suffer," Judy Akinyi, who is serving a nine-year sentence at Langata women's prison in ...

A sculpted and polished phallus found in a German cave is among the earliest representations of male sexuality ever uncovered, researchers say. The 20cm-long, 3cm-wide stone object, which is dated to ...