Prisoners approaching the end of their sentences at HMP Standford Hill open prison on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, are being offered HGV lessons to stop them reoffending once freed.

The sinister habit was part of the regime at the Old Deanery care home in Braintree, Essex, pictured where a BBC investigation has uncovered widespread abuse of vulnerable residents.

At the age of 11 Michael McConville watched a gang of masked IRA terrorists smash down the door of his family’s West Belfast home and demanded to see his mother Jean.

A major Ukip donor claimed yesterday that a husband can never rape his wife, insisting: ‘Once a woman accepts, she accepts.’

A study by Northwestern University in the US took biopsy samples from 600 men in Chicago and found that any which lacked vitamin D were strongly associated with prostate cancer.

Britons like to spend the majority of their break eating and drinking and prefer to depart at 7.30am on Friday and return at 8pm on Sunday.

HORLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's acting president conceded Wednesday that his police and security forces were "helpless" to stifle unrest in the country's east, where pro-Russia gunmen seized more buildings, walking into the police station and mayor's office in this mining hub without resistance.

Irish republican leader Gerry Adams, head of the Sinn Fein political party, was on Wednesday arrested over the murder of a woman in 1972, the party said in a statement. "Last month Gerry Adams said he was available to meet the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) about the Jean McConville case," said a statement […]

The 1 percenters at the Milken Institute’s annual confab in Beverly Hills will be fine no matter what happens with the economy. But the next recession is on their minds, anyway.

Taking the conversation to a whole new level, author Matt Taibbi examines why the justice system has largely given Wall Street a free pass while becoming “a gigantic mindless punishment machine” for the poor.