A "witch doctor" who conned vulnerable people into giving her £1m to pay for spiritual cures for their serious health problems is facing a substantial jail term.

A mobile scanner designed to spot a 3D-printed plastic pistol hidden under a gunman's clothing is to be used in Brazil after threats by organised criminals to disrupt the World Cup.

Dame Jane Goodall, the celebrated ethologist considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, will give a series of public talks in New Zealand next month.

British politician George Osborne's cat Freya was chauffeur-driven back to her Downing Street home after being found more than a kilometre away.

An Australian woman says she stopped eating and became a 'shell' of her former self after Rolf Harris assaulted her at a London pub.

Thanks to a British-born software engineer, a South African carpenter and a remarkable prosthetic they created together using 3D printing technology, a 12-year-old Haitian orphan born without fingers can now play catch.

A band of foreign snakes that are said to be capable of crushing small children to death are on the loose in North London.

Circles in the sky have become a hip way to view a city, so prepare your cabin for 'flight', says Peter Hamling.

London's Gherkin building has entered receivership and will probably be sold after the loan appreciated by 60 per cent and the co-owners defaulted several times over the past five years.

A mother appeared in court today charged with the murder of three young disabled children.

A mother who provided round-the-clock care for her three severely disabled children was last night being questioned on suspicion of murdering them while they were alone together at their home.

Daniel Scott revisits the Wimbledon Common pubs he frequented in his youth.

A New Zealand accountant who conned his wealthy London neighbours out of $2.2 million has been jailed for eight years in the UK.

Some British teachers are taking food to give their pupils breakfast every day because they are too hungry and exhausted to learn, says a new report.

Andrew Alderson finds himself drawn to an unusual museum.

Aides of Margaret Thatcher expressed little surprise when Kiwi nurse Pip Easterbrook didn't want to work for the woman known as Britain's Iron Lady.

The pillars that form Stonehenge may have been chosen because they were like sacred "prehistoric glockenspiels", according to researchers.

The man branded Britain's most violent prisoner has abandoned his sketch pad in protest after prison guards banned him from sending drawings to friends.

Britain is in the grip of an "unparalleled natural crisis", said the army officer in charge of the flood recovery effort.

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