Mary Kennedy – the estranged wife of Robert F Kennedy Jr, nephew of John F Kennedy – died of asphyxiation due to hanging, authorities

Pakistanis who risk all to drive for

Roberto Martinez is given permission to speak to Liverpool and is one of several candidates shortlisted to succeed Kenny

Mobile phone data of suspects in police custody is to be extracted and retained, regardless of whether charges are brought, the BBC has

Stuart Broad takes six wickets as England seize the upper hand against West Indies on day one of the first Test at

The Olympic flame is officially handed over to organisers of the London 2012 Games at a ceremony in

A cabinet of professors and diplomats is sworn in in Greece to steer the debt-ridden eurozone state into repeat elections on 17

Chef Kunio Miura shows Roland Buerk how to prepare the potentially deadly Japanese dish

A man is being held in custody until a $20,000 diamond he is believed to have swallowed passes through his system, Canadian police

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Nasa’s Kepler space telescope provides new insight on the colossal explosions that can occur in the atmospheres of some

The UK says it will retain stricter animal testing standards than required by a new European Union

Turkey says it scrambled two military jets to chase away an Israeli plane which allegedly violated the airspace of Turkish-held northern

Tens of thousands of Chilean students take to the streets to demand free

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Rescuers in Tyumen, central Russia, free a man from a rubbish chute he had jumped into to hide from his

Three of the four original members of Australian children’s entertainers The Wiggles are to leave the group, paving the way for the group’s first female

Scotland’s project to put wind turbines deep under

Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng says he and his family have completed passport applications and officials say they should be ready in 15

Teacher tells of fleeing ethnic attacks during Mali

The latest device to harness the power of the tides is being tested in the stormy waters off Orkney in the far north of

Half a million gold buttons decorate Royal

A team of speed flyers have become the world’s first to successfully descend Italy’s Mount

Mexicans pay their last respects to Carlos

An 83-year-old man becomes the oldest person in the UK to donate a kidney while still alive, the NHS Blood and Transplant service

Thousands of heart attacks and strokes could be prevented if the cholesterol-lowering drugs, statins, were more widely prescribed, research

Most government websites will miss the UK’s deadline for complying with EU regulations over cookies, the Cabinet Office tells the

Andrew Strauss says he has not thought of giving up the England captaincy, ahead of the first Test against West Indies at

Student protesters in Montreal storm the University of Quebec, disrupting classes as they were due to resume after a boycott protesting rising tuition

Syria is losing the information war against the West, President Bashar al-Assad has said, amid continuing violence across the