Nicholas Edmondson

More women will be staying sober at Christmas parties, according to a new study that claims they are five times more like to be the designated driver.

Ground-to-air missiles for London Olympics to beat terrorist attack.

Tom Hardy, who will star as Bane in the new Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, has made an online appeal for £45,000 to help save a homeless charity.

The Black List of the hottest movie scripts of this year has been published, giving a glimpse into some of of the hits of the future.

Zahid Shah, 31, who slammed a meat cleaver into a neighbour’s head in a row over a door has been jailed for five years.

Police have released images of a man wanted for questioning following a race hate crime in a supermarket.

A man has been found guilty of 25 child sex offences after being named in a victim’s suicide note.

Rescuers have spotted a life raft which may contain survivors from a Russian oil rig disaster feared to have claimed dozens of lives.

The mother of an 18-year-old who was killed in a Christmas Eve crash is pleading with drivers to stay off the roads if they drink this year.

George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling and Meryl Streep are all in the running for a prize as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association reveals the nominations for the Golden Globes 2012.

Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme look set to make old-school action movie fan's dreams come true in the teaser trailer for The Expendables 2.

Former Blue Peter and Xtra Factor presenter Konnie Huq is having a baby boy with writer Charlie Brooker.

More than 110 people have been killed after drinking tainted alcohol in West Bengal, India.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has branded US Senator John McCain “crazy” and claimed he has “blood on his hands”.

Vladimir Putin has blamed Russian exiles in London for an article investigating corruption in the country’s parliamentary elections.

Nordine Amrani, 33, who went on a lone gun and grenade rampage at Liege Christmas Market snapped over fears of returning to prison.

The Law of Opposites, by Gordon Kerr, calls for changes to the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) which he claims lets banks recognise hopes of future income as current profit.

Gina Robins, 31, who microwaved her neighbour’s 10-week-old kitten has been sentenced to 168 days in prison.

People who do not “look Spanish” can be stopped by police as often as four times a day, according to report by Amnesty International.

Brain technology could be used to learn new skills in the style of science fiction movie The Matrix, scientists claim.

Weather warnings are in place across Britain as patches of low pressure will bring in storms to batter the South coast on Thursday.

More than 3,400 whales dolphins and porpoises have beached on UK shores over the past six years, a new study reveals.

A picture of the man who committed the shock attack that claimed at least four lives in Liege Christmas Market is starting to emerge.

The woman, aged 45, worked as a cleaner for a neighbour of Nordine Amrani, was found in a cannabis plantation at gunman's home.

Famillies fled for their lives when Nordine Amrani, 33, went on the rampage killing two teenagers, aged 15 and 17, a 20-year-old, and a 65-year-old woman in Liege, Belgium

A Christmas market in Liege, Belgium, was turned into a bloody war zone when a lone gunman opened fire with grenades and a machine gun killing three and wounding dozens

A lone gunman has gone on the rampage in Liege, Belgium, killing three people and injuring 75.

It is thought that a grenade and Kalashnikov attack outside a courthouse in Belgium may have been an attempted jailbreak.

Two people have been killed in a grenade and kalashnikov attack near a courthouse in Liege, Belgium.