The suspect in the murder of 16-year-old "gentle giant" Jimmy Mizen may have fled to Northern Cyprus, according to reports.

An off-duty policeman was dragged from his blazing car after he was the victim of a bomb attack, it has been claimed.

British people have been reported missing following the earthquake that struck China killing at least 10,000 people, the Foreign Office has said.

The UK is poised to help China deal with the devastation wrought by an earthquake that has killed around 10,000 people, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said.

National school tests should be scrapped as the pressure to meet Government targets has denied children their right to a rounded education, say MPs.

The first planeload of British aid is heading for cyclone-ravaged Burma as International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander joins emergency EU talks on the crisis.

Schools Secretary Ed Balls must come clean over whether he wants to scrap A-levels and GCSEs, an influential committee of MPs said.

The Government avoided a major rebellion as controversial legislation to regulate the use of human embryos for research cleared its first Commons hurdle.

Labour will seek to restore discipline to the party ranks after another bruising day of internal attacks on Gordon Brown's leadership.

Murder detectives are working through scores of eyewitness accounts of a fatal stabbing in broad daylight on Britain's most famous shopping street.

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