Failing to make your bed in the morning may actually help keep you healthy, scientists believe. Research suggests that while an unmade bed may look scruffy it is also unappealing to house dust mites ...

Naval technician Chris Cranmer has become the first registered Satanist in the armed forces.

A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal. The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a ...

Sky has sacked football presenter Andy Gray after further allegations of his sexist behaviour came to light. The pundit had already been disciplined for sexist comments made about female referee Sian ...

Exeter City have announced that striker Adam Stansfield has died of cancer at the age of 31. Stansfield was diagnosed with bowel cancer following a series of tests for an abdominal complaint in April, ...

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 ...

New Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws has revealed his predecessor left him a note reading: "I'm afraid there is no money." Mr Laws, speaking alongside Chancellor George Osborne, said he ...

For 35 years, Josip Broz Tito held Yugoslavia together despite its mix of nationalities, languages and religions. After his death in 1980, simmering ethnic tensions resurfaced, eventually leading to ...

The BBC's Ingibjorg Thordardottir demonstrates how to pronounce 'Eyjafjallajokull', the tongue-twisting name of Iceland's erupting volcano.

A trainer at the SeaWorld park in Orlando, Florida, has died after being attacked by a killer whale. Witnesses said the orca had jumped and grabbed Dawn Brancheau by the waist from a poolside platform ...

US, British and Afghan forces have begun a major offensive in Helmand province. BBC News looks at the offensive and its ultimate target.

"In Italy it was one town, and a few surrounding villages - not a large urban area. And in China, although it affected a large area and big towns, it was not a city," says Mr Garratt. "In Haiti, in a ...