Police in England say they have new leads in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, who vanished in Portugal in 2007.

A British father is being questioned in France on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two children, local police said.

A couple suspected of being terrorists were shot dead after using their baby as a human shield when they were surrounded by police in Kenya.

The British Foreign Office is "urgently" investigating reports that a British man has been arrested on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two children in France.

A man has died while a boy and another man are fighting for their lives after a light aircraft crashed on the approach to an airport runway.

Madeleine McCann's parents are said to be "very, very pleased" with Scotland Yard's review of their daughter's disappearance, as it emerged detectives have identified "more than a handful of people of interest" in the case.

Mountaineers should be banned from climbing Everest using oxygen, because they are "diminishing the adventure" and "achieving nothing", actor Brian Blessed said today.

Marriage between a man and woman is "sorely needed" in today's society and it could soon be "too late" to save that union, the leader of the Roman Catholic church in England and Wales has said.