The political week up to 28 October is reviewed in 60 seconds by Giles Dilnot who goes back over the headlines on the Daily Politics. Sir John Major is often credited with bringing in the National ...

On Sunday 14 December something did happen: Saddam Hussein was discovered in his hidey-hole in northern Iraq and monitoring ...

The ex-King of Afghanistan has given his first television interview in ten years. Newsnight producer Henrietta Foster reveals how a chance discovery led her to the exiled monarch as he prepares to ...

Props and sets from the Wallace and Gromit films have been destroyed in a warehouse blaze. The storage building belonging to Oscar-winning Aardman Animations, contained the company's "entire history", ...

1017: Stage seven is now officially under way; there's even been a few early breakaway attempts - very brave on a day like this. Lots of chat about the Lance Armstrong-Alberto Contador shake-up and ...

Point of no-return' "In 1994, as a student in Dire Dawa, I was not allowed take the final examinations because I was an Ogadenian," said Ahmed. "I was arrested two years later on false charges of ...

Harman, 32, is quitting by "mutual, amicable decision" with producers, an EastEnders spokesman said. He will make his final appearance on the BBC soap at the end of the year, when Dean - a founding ...

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Police have begun a murder investigation following the death of a woman in County Antrim. Leanne McKee, 26, was found dead at her home on the New Mossley estate in Newtownabbey on Saturday. It is ...

If you dream of owning your own house, then trading a red paper clip over the internet might not be the obvious way of doing it. But Canadian Kyle MacDonald has achieved exactly that and will see his ...

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For 16 years the identity of victim 115 had remained a mystery. Now police have named the last body of the King's Cross fire. The tale of Alexander Fallon is unique, but unknown people dying alone is ...