Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has revealed he was "close to death" after he crashed in a jet-powered car. The 36-year-old had been driving a 300mph jet-powered dragster when it veered off the ...

Former world snooker champion Alex Higgins has died aged 61 after a long battle against throat cancer. The 1972 and 1982 world champion, a heavy smoker, was found dead in his flat in Belfast on ...

For nearly 100 years, four giant paintings welcomed visitors to The Middlesex Hospital in central London. 'Acts of Mercy' were painted by Frederick Cayley Robinson, a distinctive yet elusive British ...

A plume of volcanic ash from Iceland has led to flights across the UK being grounded. The events around one British Airways flight in 1982 reveal the potential dangers of this sort of dust. The ...

Sticking to the theme of "Big Society", rather than big government, the Conservatives call on the UK electorate to play a part in changing the country.

Standing by an open hatch on a Russian military plane high up in the sky is tricky. All the more so when your job is to "seed" clouds, shovelling chemicals outside to cause rain. These seeded clouds ...

The varicella vaccine is available privately, but the UK's immunisation body decided last year against universal vaccination of children - as carried out in many developed countries - citing cost and ...

Veteran British actor Ian Carmichael, seen in films including I'm All Right Jack, has died at the age of 89. Carmichael, who also starred on TV as Bertie Wooster in the BBC's World of Wooster, had ...

Research by the BBC Urdu's service into the growing strength of Taliban militants in north western Pakistan shows that only 38% of the area remains under full government control. This map of the area ...

Woolly mammoths lived in Britain as recently as 14,000 years ago, according to new radiocarbon dating evidence. Dr Adrian Lister obtained new dates for mammoth bones unearthed in the English county of ...

The details of about 500,000 online bank accounts and credit and debit cards have been stolen by a virus described as "one of the most advanced pieces of crimeware ever created". The Sinowal trojan ...

Turkish shepherds watched in horror as hundreds of their sheep followed each other over a cliff, say Turkish newspaper reports. First one sheep went over the cliff edge, only to be followed by the ...