Scotland Yard will consider asking the British Home Secretary to ban further student marches.

The mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has condemned Swedish prosecutors' decision to lodge an appeal blocking her son's freedom.

The Netherlands' free-wheeling dope days may soon be over if the country's new centre-right coalition government has its way.

Researchers claim to have found the first proof that getting a regular eight hours' sleep a night can make you appear more attractive.

Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has been cured as a result of the procedure.

With her infectious cackle and outrageous dress sense, Anna Dello Russo - influential blogger, editor-at-large, street-style icon - is putting the fun back into dressing up, and gathering a huge following in the process.

The founder of WikiLeaks has issued a plea from jail for his supporters to keep fighting, accusing Visa, Mastercard and Paypal of being instruments of US foreign policy.

A new tour takes in the grand settings of Prince William and Kate Middleton's courtship.

Graham Robb has that rare gift of storytelling that compels riveted attention from readers of non-fiction as much as fiction and he understands that stories may spring emotionally from places but inevitably embrace the lives of people.

Although this year's harvest is bountiful and prices are buoyant, a long-term threat hangs over the future of the UK's mistletoe.

The Stockholm suicide bombing has shattered the open-minded Scandinavian country of Sweden.

Located at the north-west corner of mainland Wales, Anglesey is commonly treated as a thoroughfare by people heading to the busy port of Holyhead.

New technology is lighting up cities and saving energy.

Ireland's 'gourmet grande dame', Darina Allen, fills in the cooking gaps that may have passed us by.

The 2010 Nobel laureates in literature, economics, physics and chemistry received their prizes in Stockholm last night.

In winter, Venice's crowds melt away as the December mists confer the canals with an exquisite extra dimension.

Where would the world of childbirth be without those uninhibited European women who feature so prominently in birthing videos?

The mother of WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange says she is worried he will not get a fair trial following his arrest in London.

Mohamed Taranissi, the so-called 'bad boy of the fertility world' is still Britain's most successful IVF specialist.