But what happens when the trail goes cold on a homicide? Few people will ever have heard about the deaths of David Ombler and Janet Henderson - Britain's two oldest unsolved murders. Mr Ombler, a ...

Sarah Parkinson, the writer and producer wife of comedian Paul Merton, dies of cancer at the age of 41.

The United Nations tribunal in Arusha has convicted three former media executives of being key figures in the media campaign to incite ethnic Hutus to kill Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.

Cases of rape of young girls are on the increase in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe's most prominent organisation fighting child sexual abuse is confronting traditional healers to take action over the myth that ...

El gobierno de Japón confirmó que el cadáver decapitado encontrado el viernes en Bagdad son los restos de Shosei Koda, un ciudadano japonés retenido por militantes islámicos. El primer ministro ...

A British soldier who bludgeoned a Danish tour guide to death in Cyprus has been freed from jail early. Allan Ford, 38, was one of three men jailed for 25 years on the island for killing Louise Jensen ...

The chairman of the secretive - he prefers the word private - Bilderberg Group is 73-year-old Viscount Etienne Davignon, corporate director and former European Commissioner. In his office, on a ...

A British man has been killed and about 12 other people injured in a suspected suicide bomb attack in Qatar. The car bomb blast occurred at the Doha Players theatre outside the capital, Doha, near a ...

South Africa v Sri Lanka A, Colombo Match drawn ...

It was a way that people tried to legitimise racist beliefs and practices, but over the years scientists rejected such theories. Within 20 years or so, people had begun to shorten the terms to racism ...

A South Korean man dies after reportedly playing an online computer game for 50 hours with few breaks.

Builders at the site of a new tourist attraction in London are refusing to work alone after skeletons were found in a sealed vault in the basement. Old tombs beneath London Bridge are being excavated ...