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The housing market in Scotland saw a rise in confidence last month, according to the Royal

Rapper Lil Wayne is sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to possessing a gun,

Former Labour and Conservative science ministers challenge the next UK government to maintain

A plant-eating predator that preys on aggressive superweed Japanese knotweed is to be given a trial

Further rises in house prices may be held back by more properties coming onto the market, surveyors

Parents, hospitals and private firms are being warned over risky and illegal collections of

Targets for getting young people into higher education should be scrapped and top-up fees raised,

Retail sales bounced back in February after a tough January on the High Street, the latest figures

Toyota rejects claims that faulty electronics could be behind its worldwide recall of more than

A Tory-backed report urges incentives for schools and tax breaks for researchers to raise the

David Cameron rejects claims he has mishandled the Lord Ashcroft tax row, saying he had clearly

The US says Israel's authorisation of new building in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank does not

Jon Venables could be murdered by vigilantes if his new identity is revealed, the judge who

A deal is reached in the long-running dispute at Royal Mail over modernising the postal service

The husband of a woman injured in a car explosion in Kent is charged with two counts of attempted

The Ulster Unionist executive endorses the party's decision to vote against the devolution of

Liverpool's hopes of qualifying for the Champions League suffer a setback as struggling Wigan beat

Several hundred people are now reported to have been killed in an ethnic clash near the Nigerian

Hundreds of people are being asked to shed their clothes to celebrate a Greater Manchester's art

Detectives from the Serious Crime branch have arrested four men in connection with serious crime in

Flanker James Haskell comes down on the side of England in the club-versus-country row that has

A convicted sex offender is sentenced to life imprisonment for the kidnap, rape and murder of a

Former Davis Cup captain David Lloyd calls on Lawn Tennis Association chief Roger Draper to quit

The US eases sanctions on Iran, Cuba and Sudan to help further the use of internet services and

The voter turnout in Iraq's parliamentary election was 62%, officials say, despite attacks that

Burma's military rulers pass five key election laws, paving the way for polls expected to be held

Jack Straw has said he will not reveal any of the details regarding the recall of Jon Venables to

Why Sangin is most dangerous place in world for UK forces

Up to 20,000 civil and public servants join a UK-wide strike in a dispute over redundancy terms.

Why are there still so few female film-makers?

The violent past of Ashleigh Hall's murderer

At least 13 people are killed and 60 injured in a suicide attack on an anti-terrorist unit in

'I jumped from my flat and survived the fall'

Secrets the coming missions to Jupiter could reveal

Historic win for The Hurt Locker as Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win the best

Why do women vote differently from men?

A strong earthquake of 6.0 magnitude has struck eastern Turkey, killing at least 57 people,

Almost four in five people worldwide see internet access as a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC

Mapping the global growth of the internet since 1998

Scientists may have identified the first specks of interstellar dust in material collected by the