Scotland Yard has urged Portuguese authorities to reopen the search for Madeleine McCann as detectives said there are 195 potential leads to...
Insecure websites to be named and shamed after checks
Companies that do not do enough to keep their websites secure are to be named and shamed to help improve security. The list of good and bad...
Anti-depressants likely do more harm than good, study suggests
Commonly prescribed anti-depressants appear to be doing patients more harm than good, say researchers who have published a paper examining t...
Madeleine McCann, the British girl who went missing while on holiday in Portugal half a decade ago, could still be alive, Scotland Yard said on Wednesday.
Madeleine McCann as she might look aged 9 Photo: Teri Blythe Detectives released a new “age progression” image of the toddler, which they s...
Dengue Fever Asian Mosquito Could Invade UK
The mosquito can carry dengue and chikungunya viruses A mosquito that spreads tropical diseases including dengue fever may be poised to in...
Opiates Killed 8 Americans In Afghanistan, Army Records Show
Eight American soldiers died of overdoses involving heroin, morphine or other opiates during deployments in Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011, ac...
exploding the common myths about which foods are good for us
Myth: Salt in your diet causes high blood pressure In the 1940s, Walter Kempner, a researcher at Duke University, North Carolina, became fam...
Mike Tyson has for the first time revealed his lowest point ever in a searingly candid interview.
Once known as the ‘baddest man on the planet’, his life has taken more than a few dark twists and turns. But now Mike Tyson has for the firs...
EU condemns Repsol state seizure
The European Parliament has passed a resolution condemning a nationalisation that has strained relations between Spain and Argentina. Arg...
Hacking scandal: the net tightens on the Murdochs
Rupert Murdoch's grip on his media empire was dramatically challenged yesterday after his company was labelled a "toxic shadow st...
France and Germany want to suspend the Shengen Agreement
They say they want a temporary suspension while the crisis continues. Spain will being introducing border restrictions during the European C...
British police arrested three people, including the royal editor of Rupert Murdoch's Sun tabloid
British police arrested three people, including the royal editor of Rupert Murdoch 's Sun tabloid, a source familiar with the situation...
Phone data shows romance 'driven by women'
A study of mobile phone calls suggests that women call their spouse more than any other person. That changes as their daughters become ol...
Secret Service scandal sheds light on sex tourism in Latin America
Type in "sex tourism" and "Brazil" in Google, and the first site that comes up is not a news report or academic study, b...
Sex Robots Will Revolutionize Sex Tourism,
They don't spread disease and they can't be sold into sex slavery. Those are just two of the advantages of robot prostitutes, whi...
Smoking is no longer part of life, says Andrew Lansley
The health secretary, Andrew Lansley, has declared that "we no longer see smoking as a part of life", as a ban on tobacco promot...
Addictive painkiller sales surge in new parts of U.S.
Sales of the two most popular prescription painkillers in the United States have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press a...
Freedom near after years in hell but Schapelle Corby is too scared to hope
CONVICTED drug smuggler Schapelle Corby last night said she was "too scared to get my hopes up" after Indonesia's Justice and ...
Whitney Houston 'Powdery' substance in hotel bathroom
Drug paraphernalia and a white powdery substance were discovered in Whitney Houston's hotel room on the day she died, according to a c...
Pensioner shoots himself at Greek Parliament, refuses to 'search for food in garbage'
77-year-old Greek man has committed suicide in central Athens by the nation’s parliament, shooting himself with a handgun in apparent financ...