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

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BBC News Online explains how Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network grew up and the connections with other militants.

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 ...

The full text of Nelson Mandela's speech for the campaign to end poverty in the developing world ...

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 ...

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BBC News Online charts the history of the claim that Iraq could use weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes.

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 New Zealand couple blocked from naming their baby 4Real have instead settled on Superman. So what are the rules on naming children in the UK? Apple, Brooklyn, Zowie, Fifi Trixibelle... celebrity ...

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 ...

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 ...