A hospital consultant whose gross negligence led to the death of a mother of two children was "a broken man" yesterday as he was jailed for two years.

The body of one of two Britons who went missing after setting out to canoe along a crocodile-infested river in India has been found by a search team.

A Briton was arrested in Thailand after the bodies of six foetuses thought to be intended for black magic rituals were found stuffed into his luggage.

Alain de Botton has addressed love, happiness and religion. Now he wants to investigate pornography in the belief it can be turned into a moral and noble industry.

Lloyds Banking Group dispatched a dozen top bosses on a luxury spa break designed to prevent them from "bail out, burn out or being booted out".

A man thought to have battered to death a charity worker and a pensioner in their homes was named last night by police desperate to catch him before he can strike again.

The Foreign Secretary has denied that Neil Heywood, the British businessman thought to have been murdered in China, was a British secret agent.

A strike by fuel tankers looked increasingly likely last night after union officials voted against a proposed deal and urged their members to do the same.

Greg Ham, musician with Australian band Men At Work, has been found dead at his home in Melbourne.

At least 10 cases of alleged racism by the Met Police have been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission in three weeks.