The Burmese government is delaying efforts by aid agencies to help those affected by the cyclone, charities have warned.

Lenders have come under pressure to do more for struggling homeowners after the number of people threatened with losing their homes rose to its highest level for 16 years.

Government staff have been sending out highly sensitive data in packages that include the passwords.

Three teenage gang members have been given life sentences for murdering an innocent 14-year-old boy to "earn their spurs".

Two teenagers have been given life sentences for the murder of a schoolboy.

The BBC failed to pay £106,000 to charity from phone votes in over 20 programmes, including last year's UK Eurovision final, it said.

The house at the centre of a mystery explosion was the target of a vandalism attack hours earlier when a purple liquid was poured through the letterbox, police have said.

A Filipino man has lost his right to remain in Britain - because his wife was killed by an NHS blunder.

Barrister Mark Saunders was hit at least five times by police marksmen during a shoot-out at his home, an inquest has heard.

A career conwoman who poisoned her husband with rat killer and anti-depressants has been given an indeterminate prison sentence.

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