Golden Shears champion Cam Ferguson has claimed first place at the Royal Cornwall Open in England.

Monteith's Golden Lager has taken out the top title at the competition in London.

Another New Zealand motorcyclist has been killed in the Isle of Man TT event.

Kabul/Houston - British Prime Minister David Cameron offered on Thursday to help deal with BP Plc's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, saying he would take it up with US President Barack Obama, as the beleaguered company's shares rebounded from 14-year lows.

Scientists found the least anxious study participants healed twice as fast as those who were most stressed.

The Independent's Nick Duerden wonders why the UK has such different views on children in restaurants to the rest of Europe.

Scientists have discovered the first significant link between autism and DNA.

A guilt-ridden English grandmother saved her four greyhounds but left her young grandson asleep upstairs when her house caught fire.

As the world's most famous luggage brand opens a landmark store in London, Patrick-Louis Vuitton shares why we love LV so.

British doctors have made a dramatic advance in the understanding of breast cancer which could shorten treatment, save millions and see fewer women undergo mastectomies.

The Manor, high altar of 1970s rock and birthplace of the legendary album Tubular Bells, has been put up for sale.

"Rightly or wrongly, and we all think wrongly, Derrick thought his brother was out to get him," a friend of the Bird family says.

British scientists have started an ambitious project aimed at searching for signs of extraterrestrial life on Mars.

Derrick Bird, the gunman who shot dead 12 people in a rampage in Cumbria, killed 10 of his victims in less than an hour, UK police believe.