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The Duke and Duchess Cambridge attended a black-tie reception in aid of the National Memorial Arboretum Appeal at St James's Palace.

Zimbabwean dictator, President Robert Mugabe has moved from politics to show business after reinventing himself as a popstar.

A former public schoolboy who fantasied about being a gangster has been jailed for 30 years for shooting dead a rival outside a London prison.

While the embers of the horrific M5 fireball are still burning in people's memory, the police claim to have found ample leads which may help them crack the mystery on what really happened on that fatefu

A man has been jailed indefinitely for attempting to rape a 21-year-old student in Nottingham

In an unprecedented move of self-censorship, the European Union has blocked the release of a documentary on Afghan women jailed for so-called 'moral crimes.'

The International Business Times is marking Remembrance Day with a series of forgotten stories of war. In the Great War tens of thousands of men deemed to short to join the British Army formed their own unique units and became known as the Bantam Battalions.

A senior manager at Transport for London is believed to have fallen from the top of the company's new headquarters in Greenwich last Friday, reports the London Evening Standard.

Tiny fish could be a key weapon in the world’s fight against nicotine addiction.

A Scotland Yard chief inspector has been sacked after allegedly boasting about taking drugs on a dating website.

Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, will be flown out to the Falkland Islands in the New Year for six weeks in bid to complete his development as a pilot.

The global anti-capitalist movement is said to be planning an hour-long stand-off at 11.11am on Friday Nov. 11, 2011, Remembrance Day.

The City of London police is being prosecuted over allegations it used undercover dwarfs to perform an anti-terror search, according to The Evening Standard.

Home Secretary Theresa May has banned the extreme Islamic group Muslims Against Crusades.

"Poisonous" bullying by the chief executive of a multi-billion pound London investment firm lead to its demise, a former staff member alleges at employment tribunal.

Popoular British policing magazine to close citing 'changes in the marketplace' have forced it to shut down.

With the cat-out-of-the-bag that Apple's deceased co-founder Steve Jobs has been posthumously nominated for Time magazine's 2011 Person of the Year, the IBTimes takes you through the key reasons why the tech-guru doesn't deserve to win.

A professional surfer from Hawaii has successfully ridden the largest wave of all time.

The moderator of a popular Mexican social network has been murdered, allegedly for passing on a tip off to the authorities regarding the local drug cartel.

Suicide attempts on the London Underground have soared in the last 10 years as recession worries hit hard

The RSPCA are looking for a man who was caught on CCTV swinging a cat by the tail whilst walking down a street in Kent.

In an unexpected, dramatic move, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has appointed economist Mario Monti as senator-for-life, bringing him into parliament and positioning him as a possible prime minister.

The International Energy Agency has warned that if fossil fuel infrastructure is not radically and rapidly re-thought, the world will 'lose for ever' the chance to avoid devastating climate change.

Cavers have linked over 60 miles (about 102 km) of caverns and natural tunnels under the high ground close to Kirkby Lonsdale in Cumbria. The caves are expanded through Cumbria, Lancashire and Yorkshire, knowing as Three Counties System, reported the BBC

At least seven people are dead and dozens are still trapped in collapsed buildings following a magnitude 5.6 earthquake that struck eastern Turkey, less than three weeks after a previous 7.2 magnitude quake killed 600 people in the same area.

An Indian court has found 31 Hindus guilty of killing dozens of Muslims by setting fire to a building in Gujarat state in 2002, in one of India's worst outbreak of sectarian violence in recent years.

The Government’s spending watchdog has urged local councils and other related bodies to boost their counter-fraud defences with a view to tackling criminals who con them by using the data they post on their own websites under transparency drives.

Fifa has reversed its decision not to allow England to wear poppies in their friendly match against Spain on Saturday.

Online activist movement Anonymous has declared war against corruption in the Mexico government, calling on all the global hacker community to attack government agencies in the country.