Entertaining guests at Buckingham Palace doesn't come cheap.

A Chinese rugby player broke a student's eye socket when he called him a "chink" in a student bar, a court heard.

The woman who wanted to bring British photographer David Hamilton to justice for allegedly raping her has branded his apparent suicide as a "cowardly act".

Prince Harry was left in an awkward position when he was asked to take part in a moment's silence after the death of Fidel Castro.

A stoush over "land banking" developers is brewing in Britain - and local authorities in New Zealand may well be interested observers in the result.

Justin Grace is determined to honour the organ donor who gifted him another shot at life - dodging death for a second time.

DISTRESSING CONTENT: A man who was accused of raping his pregnant girlfriend while she was in labour after telling her he felt 'horny' has been found not guilty.

Panicked driver called emergency services, desperately seeking help, as his car hurtled along a motorway for eight minutes before the call ended abruptly.

The percentage of young adults in the UK who have taken cocaine is higher than anywhere else in Europe.

A man set his wife on fire but tried to pretend it happened while she was making him a bacon sandwich.

Prime Minister Theresa May acknowledged calls from Britain's main corporate lobby group to avoid a "cliff edge".

Good night my beautiful angel, says heartbroken father whose photograph of his dying 4-year-old daughter went viral.

The president of a cryogenic facility where a 14-year-old girl was taken to be frozen has admitted patients may be left with no memories if they are successfully woken up.

Tony Blair is hunting for a new office near Westminster as he plots a return to frontline politics to influence the Government's approach to Brexit.

This is the final resting place of 'JS', the 14-year-old British girl who fought for the right to be frozen after her death.

If at first you don't succeed, try reading the instructions, writes Pamela Wade.

British woman Kaikoura Stuart has a message for the people of the town she was named after.

A memorial match for rugby great Jonah Lomu is unlikely ever to go ahead.

A teenager filmed herself having a threesome - before sending it to her friend's boyfriend in a bitter revenge plot.

Royal Navy warships will be left without anti-ship missiles and be forced to rely on naval guns because of cost-cutting.

Theresa May has launched an attack on one of the world's biggest consultancy firms over a leaked memo.

Brits evacuated from the quake zone grateful to the people of Kaikoura.

Anna Leask drinks in the mysterious aura and ponders the what, why, who and how of ancient wonder Stonehenge.

A beaming Nigel Farage seemed pretty chuffed when he became the first British politician to meet with president-elect Donald Trump since his election win.

Could this home ownership scheme from the UK be the answer to our housing affordability woes?

A disabled driver has been fined after attempting to reserve a parking space on a residential street - by painting their own bay.

The moment a Royal Marine sniper stopped a speedboat carrying £40 million worth of cocaine with a single shot from a helicopter has been captured on camera.

Jeremy Clarkson will be paid £833,000 an episode, while £36,000 will be forked out on steak for the three Grand Tour stars.

A world-famous thinker says New Zealand could be the "Athens of the modern world".

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