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The motorway speed is set in increase from 70mph to 80mph in 2013, under a new government plan to help boost the economy.

Millions of pounds worth of fake drug and medicines have been seized across the wold, with over half confiscated in the UK.

Saudi Arabia King Abdullah has overturned a court ruling which sentenced a woman to 10 lashes for breaking the country's ban on female drivers, reports say.

The Raoul Moat inquest jury has delivered a unanimous suicide verdict.

The residents at the UK's largest illegal Travellers site have won a temporary reprieve in their long-running battle to stay on Dale Farm.

Pope Benedict XVI could end up at the Hague after human rights lawyers and victims of clergy sexual abuse filed a complaint Tuesday calling for the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate and prosecute the catholic cleric along with three other top Vatican officials for crimes against humanity and covering up and condoning the rape and sexual assault of children by priests.

A man, 61, has become the latest person to be arrested in relation to the phone hacking scandal.

Latest figures from the Metropolitan police say that 768 people have been arrested in connection with "violence, disorder and looting."

Sharon Shoesmith was unfairly sacked following the Baby P tragedy, The Court of Appeal has ruled.

Police have arrested a sixth person in relation to the death of Constable Ronan Kerr.

Anders Behring Breivik is probably insane, according to the lawyer defending him but it is still uncertain whether Breivik will plead insanity.

Anders Behring Breivik, the man who has admitted to committing the recent terror attacks in Norway, has made his first appearance in court, behind closed doors.

The law firm that Rupert Murdoch claims failed to raise awareness over evidence of police bribes at News International will now be given the chance to give their version of events to police and MP's, after previously being prevented from doing so by client-lawyer confidentiality.

Google could be sued for scooping up data from open wi-fi networks after a US court ruling.

On the opening day of the trial of the nine men, a court heard how seven teenage girls, the youngest of them is 13 years old, were groomed into child prostitution with offers of alcohol, drink and cash by nine men in a sex-trafficking ring.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the man accused of planning the 11 September terrorist attacks, which killed over 3,000 people in 2001, is to be tried by a military commission at Guantanamo Bay.