Mount Sinabung volcano explodes before dawn, sending cloud of ash and smoke high into the air.
Five women and five men arrested at property in West Midlands after police find woman's body.
Police probe angle house was mistakenly targeted in revenge attack.
Ancient Egyptian mummies were torched, antiquities destroyed and a 3,500 year-old limestone statue stolen from Malawi Museum.
Two women injured by police bullets, one receiving a gunshot wound in the buttocks.
Five women and four other men arrested at same address after search for missing woman
Reid to admit guilt before a judge in exchange for reduced sentence.
Stephan Turk, a Riviera jeweller is charged with murder after shooting a teenage robber in the back after being held at gunpoint.
Officers "increasingly concerned" after 22 children go missing from care.
Dr Muhammad Taufiq Satar has spoken of his grief at losing his wife and children in a suspected arson attack.
Blackshirts attack on left-wing activists on streets of Perama leaves nine seriously injured.
Strident campaigns alienating key support, claims the charity's deputy chairman, Paul Draycott.
Health experts fear years of progress will go up in smoke as big tobacco "re-glamourises smoking".
Three recent cases highlight growing problem for army authorities as gangs infiltrate military.
Simon Cowell, Bruce Forsyth, Ola Jordan and Brendan Cole pay packets reveal huge gulf.
The eccentric pop star Lady Gaga talks about her drug use and lesbian sex in one of her most candid interviews to date.
Japan sends a rocket into space using a low-cost rocket coordinated from a laptop computer.
Father Anselmo Mwagambwa seriously injured a month after two British girls doused in acid on island.
Detectives probe link between fatal stabbing and fire that killed Shehnila Taufiq and her three children.
Thousands of riot police clashed with teachers protesting at educational reforms, dispersing the crowd with water cannon and tear gas.
Candid talk on camera during a night out in Oxford puts lawyer's job in balance.
A week sampling the variety of live entertainment in Cape Town leaves expat writer Cath Everett glowing with approval.
Police and residents join forces against two-storey drive-thru fast food restaurant
Prosecutors called for death penalty for pregnant girl who suffered years of abuse.
Tashkent denies its entry for Miss World 2013 beauty pageant in Indonesia is actually Miss Uzbekistan.
Faith Wairimu Maina freed after paying to have husband John Muthee shot.
Feminism is probably the most successful political and social movement of the last one hundred years. Not only does nearly everyone want to claim the mantle of feminist, from Harriet Harman and Polly Toynbee to Simon Heffer and Peter Hitchens, but women are now more or less as free as men to pursue whatever aims in life they wish.
Yom Kippur is most important religious event in the Jewish calendar.
WHO boss Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka calls for men to help resist new frontiers in sexism including trafficking and cyber-bullying.
Police investigate theory that Taufiq family murders in Wood Hill linked to city centre stabbing.