A married maths teacher was discovered under the bed of a pupil he was having sex with by her mother, a court has heard.

The Isis fighters advancing across Iraq are also plotting British attacks, Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday.

Rolf Harris' lawyer has told a court in the closing arguments of his sex trial that his client has been punished for his infidelity by public humiliation.

British actor Sam Kelly, who starred in 'Allo 'Allo! and Porridge, had died at the age of 70 after a long illness.

A friend of a New Zealander killed by a falling tree branch at the world-famous Kew Gardens in England has recounted the horrifying ordeal at an inquest.

'I'm a tough old bird', British Defence Minister Anna Soubry once said. And she's backed it up - breaking up a fight between three drunk men in London.

Commuters in central London faced gridlock today after taxi drivers staged a major protest over the introduction of cut-price fare app Uber.

A group of tech wizards in an office in San Francisco will bring London's traffic to a total standstill this week, using nothing more than an iPhone app.

The appearance of David Cameron's nanny in naked pictures posted online should see the issue of "revenge porn" become a greater priority for the Government.

A prominent New Zealand academic, priest and lawyer has been sacked from his UK professor's post.

One baby has died and 14 others are fighting for their lives after being poisoned in NHS neonatal care units in the UK.

British police searching for Madeleine McCann's remains are examining a hole in the ground about 300 metres from the resort she disappeared from.

The mother of a New Zealand man killed in London says she has been told he was run over by a car after a fight inside a bar and arrests are 'imminent'.

Rolf Harris's older brother and manager Bruce says he "wasn't trying to get her to change her story" when he rang a witness in his brother's sex trial.

Scientists have called on the British Government to give its immediate approval to laws allowing three-parent babies after experts found the techniques were safe.

UK police are hunting a driver who killed a New Zealand man in a hit-and-run on Fulham Palace Rd in London.

Bruce Holmes traces the gruesome footsteps of London's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper.

Police in Portugal investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have sealed off an area of scrubland where they are expected to begin digging shortly.

A man who stole a GPS system was arrested after he called police to ask them for help because he was lost, Polk County Sheriff's Office has said.

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.

A UK mother-of-four died after doctors missed 30 chances to diagnose her cervical cancer, an inquest heard.

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.

It's a delicate challenge for any cabin crew: how do you deal with a passenger who has died in mid-flight?

Rolf Harris has told a London court he was flattered and his heart started "thumping like mad" when an 18-year-old friend of his daughter came on to him in the 1980s.

London-born Elliot Rodger claimed in his online "manifesto" that his feelings of rejection from society began with his days at a British prep school in the Sussex countryside.

We may never know why teenage gang member Mohammed Hussain was in rival territory after dark on 1 April last year - even with armed back-up waiting close by in the car.