Charity volunteer wins place at first-choice university after skin graft for acid burns.
Electoral tampering by Zanu PF paints even bleaker outlook for troubled Zimbabe.
Cabinet Office figures show government spent £290m on redundancies and £800m on temps.
Thousands of graduates prepare to leave for exotic destinations after receiving A-level grades.
Delaware's Orb Lab scientists makes unusual catch during monitoring exercise of tagged sharks.
Former Eastern Bloc nationals' interest in working in Britain good for growth, says government.
Zoo promises families chance to see exotic wild animals but fobs them off with dogs, rats and foxes.
Pair accused of smuggling cocaine may have been exploited by star's relative, claims Peruvian media.
Bolivian public records show Flores' birthday makes him oldest person to have ever lived, says Guinness World Records.
Man who parachuted into London 2012 as 007 dies in Swiss wing-dive accident.
Duke of Cambridge watched animal displays and cattle judging at the two-day event in North Wales.
David Cameron, William Hague and Kay Burley pay tribute to veteran cameraman.
Spanish researchers identify biomarker associated with risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
Source says acid attack victims would recognise their attackers if they saw them again.
Michael Carl Nobles from Texas committed suicide in the maternity ward of the hospital where his baby was born.
Idaho 'fursuiter' suspect accused of animal cruelty amid allegations of regular penetrative sex with pet.
David Kwiatkowski is expected to plead guilty to deliberately tampering with hospital syringes.
Two dead after A300 plane from Louisville, Kentucky crashes next to Birmingham airport
Fake operative recruited women and put them through rigorous training to become secret agents.
Report shows extreme levels of violence towards women and children in Papua New Guinea.
The villa is rocky-styled, made to look like a mountaintop villa as it is surrounded by an artificial rockery and also includes a huge landscape, swimming pool, plants and gardens.
US couple describe how man used baby monitor to verbally abuse daughter while she slept.
Commodus, the Roman emperor known for his passion for performing in arena dressed as a gladiator, might have his private arena at his imperial family estate where he killed wild animals.
Swat teams stormed Tensas State Bank in St. Joseph on US Mississippi river and killed hostage taker.
Women claim drug cartel threatened them and their families if they did not carry drugs from Peru.
The boy kept laughing as he sexually abused his teacher while other colleagues were trying to break open the door.
Brotherhood claims troops have entered its protest camp in Rabaa and massacred dozens.
Sarah Beth Hopkins from Essex county allegedly abused the minor for eight months, while being trusted by his family as a good friend.
Sculptors find hoard of 12th century Slavic warlord artefacts hidden in abandoned sett in Brandenburg.
Controversial scheme aimed at illegal immigrants gets majority support despite condemnation by Nigel Farage and Nick Clegg.