An incoming UK Labour government would appoint a gay rights envoy to tackle discrimination around the world, Ed Miliband has pledged.

The Tate has been ordered to return a valuable Constable painting and criticised for failing to adequately research its background after it emerged the work was looted during the Second World War.

They are seven simple words we all take for granted. But as Joanne Milne heard her doctor recite the days of the week, she was overwhelmed with emotion, fighting back tears and gasping to catch her breath.

Ewan McDonald cops a serve in Detective Inspector Rebus' favourite watering-hole.

David Cameron played a "nukes on the loose" war game with Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and other world leaders to see how they would cope with a terrorist nuclear attack, it has emerged.

Peter Oakley, who has died aged 86, shrugged off the expectations of old age to become an Internet sensation through his wistful, heartfelt video diary on YouTube.

The son of a double agent is appealing to the Government to force intelligence chiefs to reveal the files it holds on his father, as he believes his mother married him on the orders of MI5.

Aides of Margaret Thatcher expressed little surprise when Kiwi nurse Pip Easterbrook didn't want to work for the woman known as Britain's Iron Lady.

The "no make-up selfie" trend has helped charity Cancer Research UK raise more than £1 million through 800,000 text donations since yesterday.

When Neil Trotter rang former partner Kirstine to tell her of his EuroMillions prize, her response was a remarkably good-natured: "That's typical of you, Trotter".

A British woman held in a Pakistani jail with her baby was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for trying to smuggle heroin worth £3.2m (NZD$6m) out of the country.

A busy road had to be closed by police as they searched for the severed penis of the man, who was found severely injured in the early hours of the morning.

The late Princess Diana leaked a royal phone directory to the now defunct News of the World tabloid, its former royal editor has told Britain's phone-hacking trial.

A century after the Welsh poet's birth, Kevin Pilley wonders what Dylan Thomas would make of his old boozer.

The man branded Britain's most violent prisoner has abandoned his sketch pad in protest after prison guards banned him from sending drawings to friends.

When police tried to interview John Downey in his cell about the Hyde Park bombing following his arrest last year, he put a pillow over his face and refused to say anything.

Police have seized a family dog after the sudden death of six-day-old Eliza-Mae Mullane at a home in South Wales.

Britain's emergency relief effort for floods has been labelled the biggest since the Blitz in World War II.

Britain's flooding crisis may get worse before it gets better, Prime Minister David Cameron has admitted.

The thought of Toy Story character Woody being considered an airport terror threat may seem laughable to most, but not so for the Heathrow security staff who confiscated a miniature toy gun from the doll before allowing it to travel with its owner.

Mick Dummer got a nasty shock when he arrived at work.

England football captain Casey Stoney says she has been overwhelmed by support after speaking for the first time about her "loving relationship" with another woman.

Burrowing bunnies have uncovered an 8,000-year old treasure trove buried near Land’s End in the United Kingdom.