China has ordered banks and other financial institutions to encourage more consumer financing and use of credit cards as part ...

Claudiu Carol Kondor, 42, was delivering parcels in Leeds last year when “career criminal” Mark Ross, 32, climbed into his van and drove away ...

A convicted killer who “terrified” Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Tweedy by repeatedly turning up to her home has been jailed. Daniel Bannister, 50, admitted going to the 41-year-old’s Buckinghamshire home ...

The son of an Oxfam volunteer who was struck and killed by a bus on the world’s longest guided busway said it was “such a preventable accident”, a court heard. Three people died in separate incidents ...

Hamas said it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-national hostages who died in captivity.

Sir Martyn Oliver, chief inspector of Ofsted, said giving parents the information they need in a clear and accessible way was a ‘must-have’.

Labour MP Josh Fenton-Glynn said he would ‘never not be sorry that I’ve written eulogies for my brother but never a best man speech’.

A dad is warning people to be aware of manholes after terrifying footage shows his toddler 'almost die'  by plummeting six-feet down a ...

The Royal College of Nursing’s governing council voted in 2009 to move to a neutral stance on assisted dying for terminally-ill people while doctors’ union the BMA shifted from a position against ...

A mum is warning to always check takeaway food after she claims severe food poisoning could have killed her daughter on her birthday - after she ate a 'raw' chicken kebab. Georgie Dunn and her three ...

Holmes was first to the finish line in the Gold Rush town of Nome, on the Bering Sea coast. The race began March 3 in Fairbanks after a lack of snow forced changes to the route and starting point.