The leader of Mexican Sinaloa cartel El Chapo – Shorty – Guzmán first to succeed Al Capone in Illinois’ capital top gangsters rankings.
Society for Marine Mammalogy writes to John Key over fishing threat to Maui dolphins.
Old horsemeat mages show how much things change and how much they stay the same
Two people arrested on suspicion of murder after man sentenced for killing two-year-old is found dead in jail cell
Food Standards Agency on alert after genetic material from horses found in food for young pupils.
Paralympic and Olympic athlete accused of shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his home
Woodhead’s mother says contact lens solution saved her son’s life after he went missing in Queensland.
4,200 holiday-from-hell tourists forced to share five onboard toilets after fire and power cut chant 'Let me off' at Mobile dockside.
Online sale giants to investigate claims of intimidation alleged in TV documentary.
Earth gets another close encounter with flying space rock when asteroid 2012 da14 whizzes past our planet later - hours after a meteor burned up over the Urals in Russia.
Woman and two men rescued from Chalamain Gap after avalanche pronounced dead.
Setting up home in a new country is tough, particularly without reliable internet or mobile phone, finds expat Cath Everett.
Athlete 'sobbing uncontrollably' in dock at Pretoria magistrates court.
Woodhead found alive and unharmed after three days in Queensland wilderness.
ITV soap star Michael Le Vell faces 19 child sex abuse charges.
Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, Tyumen and Kazakhstan showered in space debris which damages buildings and triggers explosions.
Human rights group Amnesty International images of condemned prisoners' meals spearhead powerful message against death penalty.
Dyfed-Powys Police make arrests following allegations that horsemeat mislabelled for supermarket shoppers.
Month-old disabled piglet gets new set of wheels after outgrowing last wheelchair.
Channel 4 documentary reveals why Liverpudlian Roberts - aka The Baredevil - began streaking 20 years ago.
Painkiller found in horsemeat hits headlines, but why does it matter?
Experts play down fears over drug found in horses slaughtered in Great Britain
Ashley Friedlein, CEO of Econsultancy, predicts digital trends that will have real-word implications.
Man arrested as part of investigation launched following conviction of former choirmaster Michael Brewer in Manchester.
Rescue teams airlift one survivor to Aberdeen hospital but search goes on for two missing climbers in Scottish mountain range.
Reeva Steenkamp is just the latest victim of gun violence in the blood-spattered rainbow nation, says Dominic Gover.
Three suspects now in custody following Kent gun attack.
Steenkamp shot dead at Pretoria home of Paralympian champion Blade Runner on Valentine's Day.
Injured Grand National horses removed from Aintree by Peter Boddy Slaughterhouse shut down by Food Standards Agency.
Blade Runner's South African model girlfriend found dead at his home described as 'absolute angel'
