The sugar found in fruit such as apples and oranges can be converted into a new type of low-carbon fuel for cars, US scientists have said. The fuel, made from fructose, contains far more energy than ...

A football fan was left seriously injured after trouble flared before England's match against Turkey. Police on horses, backed up by officers with dogs, baton charged England supporters who were ...

The terms "old" and "new" have been played around with in the cut and thrust of this election campaign but exactly how old are our current crop of political parties? The BBC's Elena Egawhary has taken ...

The owner of a theme park has given his personal assurance of safety as he re-opened a rollercoaster from which a teenager fell to her death. The Hydro ride at the Oakwood park in Pembrokeshire was ...

Compulsory ID cards are nothing new in the UK. They were issued to all British civilians during World War II. That is until one ordinary man said no. Clarence Willcock, a 54-year-old dry cleaner from ...

Tip-offs from two disgraced Metropolitan Police detectives began one of the UK's largest-ever police corruption investigations. Although it has moved on from the image created by the 1970s drama The ...

The final cost of the Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood has been put at £414.4m. MSPs were given a final report on the "Holyrood Project" which showed that the price tag was some £16m cheaper ...

El AWD Arena, antiguamente conocido como Niedersachsenstadion, albergará cuatro partidos de la fase de grupos y uno de octavos de final.

The warship the General Belgrano was the first big casualty of the Falklands conflict. The story of its sinking lingers in our national psyche. Now relatives of the dead want compensation. Eighteen ...

Nicky Hayden snatched the MotoGP crown from the grasp of five-time champion Valentino Rossi following a dramatic final race in Valencia on Sunday. Rossi led the standings by eight points before the ...

Newcastle striker Michael Chopra has extended his loan spell at Barnsley until the end of the season. The 20-year-old arrived at Oakwell at the end of August and had twice extended his initial ...

Ambulance driver Mike Ford was called to the cottage. It was only as he pulled up outside that he realised it was the house of the parents of his daughter's fiancée, before seeing the bodies of his ...