A New Zealand resident known as "Big Nose" was one of six brokers that helped convicted trader Tom Hayes manipulate bank rates by acting as middlemen.

Parents of Madeleine McCann say they had to put a stop to torrent of abusive messages.

Pebble beaches, promenades and cobblestone streets filled with quirky shops and pubs make Brighton endearing, finds Greg Bowker.

Ancient tombs, historic homes that played backdrop to combat - Ireland boasts loads of history to relish away from the paddock, writes Brendan Manning.

The BBC has admitted that footage of a volcanic eruption featured in its blockbuster natural history series Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise was faked.

It is notoriously difficult to get pandas to mate, so cloning might be the next best option.

A British man held in Guantanamo Bay has given an account of his 14-year ordeal and made a number of shocking claims.

A British fraudster who faked a coma to avoid prosecution has been jailed for obstructing justice.

Ronnie Pickering needs no introduction, his self-assured and strangely prophesizing fame has him firmly planted in the "worst driver caught on camera" cannon for this spat in northern England.

David Cameron has said lurid allegations about Oxford University initiation are "nonsense" and "completely untrue".

BBC journalist Sarah Teale was filming a report in the street about the harassment of women - then she became a victim herself.

This is the astonishing sight that greeted police officers investigating reports of "a few cannabis plants" in London.

John Key had #ponytailgate, David Cameron has #PigGate. And judging by the reaction on social media, this is one that won't be easily shrugged off.

A new biography claims Britain's Prime Minister once put a "private part of his anatomy" into a dead pig's mouth.

UK intelligence agency MI5 is paying Muslim informants for controversial short-term spying missions targeting homegrown Islamist extremists.

Cara Delevingne has become the second-richest supermodel in the world beating Kate Moss for the first time.

A narcissistic blowhard leads the Republican presidential race. Australia goes through PMs like a banana republic on fast-forward. What's going on?

Gayle Newland disguised her appearance and voice to dupe her friend into having sex.

In her first public appearance since July, the Duchess of Cambridge revealed a new fringe as she arrived at church yesterday with her husband Prince William.

The family of a Kiwi man who was stabbed to death are being offered support from a trust set up in the memory of a teenager who also died from knife wounds.

Corbyn's rise echoes that of another senior-citizen socialist who has come out of nowhere this year to rattle his party's centre-left establishment.

Jeremy Corbyn will shake up British politics and represents a reaction against the legacy of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, Labour leader Andrew Little says.

British farmers are bleating after a supermarket was accused of trying to pass off Kiwi lamb as Scottish.

Xenia Taliotis spends a day at one of the unhappiest places on Earth.

Lawyer who offended female barrister after saying her LinkedIn profile picture was "stunning" used social media to call his own daughter "hot".

There have been ripples of criticism in Britain over the Cameron Government's revelation that RAF drones have killed two British nationals in Syria.

Jeremy Corbyn is about to become the new Labour leader - and that should scares British voters, writes Mike Hosking.

Woman who claims she was assaulted by female friend pretending to be a man tells court they sunbathed together while she was blindfolded.