Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer giant has rebuffed a NZ$198bn plus takeover approach from US rival Kraft Heinz.

A UK man has admitted possessing thousands of indecent images and footage of children which a police officer said were among the worst he had ever seen.

The Church of England's crucial vote on gay marriage has been thrown into doubt after the Bishop of Coventry admitted he accidentally voted against the report.

According to academics, their willingness to wait their turn is governed by a rule of six.

A simple Christmas Day text exchange has snowballed into a nightmare for Donald Trump, and it is nowhere near ending.

A tree surgeon died in a London backyard after a his chainsaw apparently 'kicked back' into his neck.

A woman died from a brain haemorrhage after at least three hospitals refused to admit her for surgery because they had no intensive care beds.

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson died of natural causes and "did not have a brain tumour", her sister has said.

A UK man has been found guilty of attempted rape after he was found in the room of a "frail and vulnerable" 94-year-old.

A woman who went looking for "love and romance" on the internet was raped and assaulted by a man she met, a court heard.

A carved stone statue of Queen Victoria missing from the UK Houses of Parliament for over 100 years has been found in a back garden.

An interior designer was stalked by an obsessed admirer who compared their relationship to the epic ancient Greek poem The Odyssey.

It's a problem a lot of us would like to have, but Britain's youngest EuroMillions winner says she sometimes wishes she had never bought her winning ticket.

A UK mother who allowed her children sleep in her bed has had them taken away from her by a family court judge after social workers raised concerns.

Economists said official growth figures could be upgraded later this month after data showed manufacturing output rose by 2.1pc in December.

A gangster's girlfriend who infiltrated the Metropolitan Police has been jailed for five years.

She was Prince Charles' god-daughter and a former 'It Girl', but Tara Palmer-Tomkinson's frenetic lifestyle eventually took its toll.

The world's oldest police force, formed in 1285 to protect York Minster, has been given back its powers of arrest for the first time in 80 years.

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, the god-daughter of the Prince of Wales, has died aged 45 after battling a brain tumour.

Disgraced TV entertainer Rolf Harris has expressed gratitude to the jury which found him not guilty of three counts of assaulting two women and a girl.

The Government remains unconvinced about a proposal to put a cap on how much money households can borrow for a mortgage.

A mother tried to stab her ex-husband and disembowel him with a carving knife just minutes after they had slept together, a court heard today.

Royal Air Force fighter jets escorted a Pakistani civilian airliner to Stansted Airport near London on Tuesday after a passenger became disruptive.

A marketing manager left tetraplegic after falling awkwardly at home pleaded with doctors to switch off his ventilator machine.

A RAF pilot flying nearly 200 service personnel to Afghanistan is facing two counts of perjury and making a false record after a mid-flight incident.

Queen Elizabeth, the world's longest-reigning living monarch, celebrated her Sapphire Jubilee as Britain commemorated 65 years since she ascended the throne.

US President Donald Trump must not be allowed to address the UK Parliament during a state visit to Britain, House of Commons Speaker John Bercow said.

Britain's Navy warships are so loud they can be heard 160km away by Russian submarines.

A Downing Street white paper stated that Brits are entitled to three and a half months of holidays. For a second, Brexit didn't seem so bad.

A ticket for the trip of a lifetime into space is at the centre of a stellar divorce battle.