UN humanitarian chief Baroness Amos has called for a rapid response to the food crisis in Burkina Faso.

One of the interesting aspects of filming a hidden-camera show is the opportunity it gives you to become someone else. Every morning I get up and spend three hours in make-up, donning wigs, fake noses, different-coloured eyes, and then get into costume. It gives me a unique insight into how difficult life must be for some people.

Despot comedy is no laughing matter

Nine men have been arrested and questioned by detectives investigating a second case of suspected child grooming in Rochdale, police said yesterday. The men, aged 24 to 38, who are suspected of sexual activity with a child, were released on bail yesterday.

A jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the trial of a takeaway boss accused of committing a string of child sex offences against seven girls.

Baron Cohen's back, with jokes to make Colonel Gaddafi wince

A mother has been arrested on suspicion of murdering her two babies.

Fathers look set to be given additional rights to see their children after family break-up or divorce, as long as it is in the child's best interests, under reforms set out in the Queen's Speech.

One of the highest ranking members of the Catholic Church in Ireland has called for an independent investigation into past allegations of clerical sex abuse.

Police should investigate the latest child sex abuse allegations to hit the Catholic Church, Amnesty International has said.

Anglican and Catholic churches have lost the right to police themselves, say victims

Channel defends illegal accessing of canoe fraudsters' messages

Up to 38 girls may have been victims of a child prostitution ring in Oxford, a court has heard.

A teenager who skipped school to play online games was chained by the neck to a power pole by his irate father.