Fashion house Hardy Amies is to abandon its heritage as the provider of pink silk gowns to the monarch and focus on a different clientele.

With a new film about the Beatles about to open here, Graham Reid goes to Liverpool where their remarkable story began.

The British chef's healthy school dinners have produced a marked improvement in national curriculum test results, research has found.

A masked gang armed with machine guns and pistols have staged a spectacular robbery at a Swiss casino.

Former immigration boss Mary Anne Thompson today escaped a jail sentence for fraudulently using her CV to secure senior public service jobs.

Amy Winehouse wants a baby. The Rehab singer has reportedly been open about her plans to start a family with Blake Fielder-Civil.

The 2010 prize for the best baguette de tradition, or traditional baguette, in Paris has been won by a man born in Senegal.

Production of cars has restarted at Saab's Trolhättan plant in Sweden after an interruption of seven weeks while the brand was sold to its new owner Spyker Cars.

Sandra Bullock is reportedly on the hunt for a high-end divorce lawyer.

Two years after escaping her underground prison, she lives in a brightly painted house in a tiny hamlet referred to as "Village X".

Fresh evidence has emerged that British military intelligence ran a secret operation in Iraq which authorised degrading and unlawful treatment of prisoners.

A US general has sparked fury in the Netherlands by suggesting gay Dutch troops were partly to blame for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.