The 2004 local elections in Birmingham were marred by widespread postal vote fraud, a judge rules.

Called a coloboma, the defect can appear as a keyhole shape A girl resembling Madeleine McCann has been spotted in France by a woman who says she had the same eye blemish as the missing girl's. Police ...

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Los encantadores de serpientes en India acaban de usar sus flautas no para hacer bailar a los animales, sino para protestar contra el gobierno.

Northampton Town will release defenders Danny May and Brett Johnson, midfielder Joe Burnell and striker Poul Hubertz at the end of the season. Boss Stuart Gray will offer new contracts to Andy Holt ...

Actress Diana Coupland, best known for her role in 1970s sitcom Bless This House, has died in hospital aged 74. The comedy actress died at Coventry's University Hospital, after she failed to ...

The theme tune to Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em is recognised by millions, but is it true that it incorporates Morse code into its opening bars?

There are ten ways a batsman can be out - five are very common and five very rare. More often than not a batsman will be caught, bowled, given leg before wicket (lbw), run out or stumped. The five ...

Using a rare and unbroken document trail, scholars have succeeded in tracing a 10-year old girl from her kidnap in Sierra Leone 249 years ago to her life on the plantation in the United States where ...

A team of Canadian surgeons got a shock when the patient they were operating on began shedding dark greenish-black blood, the Lancet reports. The man emulated Star Trek's Mr Spock - the Enterprise's ...

As Czechoslovakia was liberated from the Nazis at the end of World War II, the population of the country took its revenge - not on the Nazis themselves, but on three million of their fellow citizens.

Retailer Body Shop agrees to be taken over by French cosmetics giant L'Oreal in a £652m deal.