A 16-year-old boy is in a serious condition in hospital after being shot in the back.

Thames Valley Police said the schoolgirl was walking alone when the man pulled her into a woodland area

Unfairly maligned as 'mum jeans', the boot cut is fighting back. But, asks Rebecca Gonsalves, did the figure-flattering style ever really go away?

Knock-off denim dealers across Europe have been dealt a blow after jeans maker Levi Strauss won the right to stop rivals aping its red-tab marking.

Denim may be a great leveller, but the fabric is notable by its absence from a collection to celebrate 140 years of Levi's 501s, says Lee Holmes

Police have released dramatic CCTV footage of a knife-wielding man who threatened a number of people on a petrol forecourt.

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Police services will be offered in a Post Office in a trial scheme held as Scotland Yard faces making cuts of £500 million.

I am a phone loser. I have said it loud and not-so-proud on these pages before. Seven handsets have slipped through my fingers – I swear they're like eels – this past two years alone. Lost, smashed, stolen, left unattended on an bus... the list goes on.

Dancing to a South Korean pop song while pretending to be a horse was one of the more unusual, or rather, inexplicable hits of the past 12 months. Matthew Bell looks back over the year's crazes – from Gangnam Style to onesies, meggings, and filthy shades of grey...

What do you think is the most unattractive fashion trend of 2012?

The girl had caught a bus from Enfield town before she was snatched

Ever since the US elected its first mixed race president, there have been many conspiracy theories surrounding the identity of Barack Obama. The Tea Party say he's a socialist, Donald Trump reckons he wasn't born in the USA and now comedian Chris Rock has a new one to try out on the electorate: Is Barack Obama white?

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