The shadow Chancellor Ed Balls declared yesterday that George Osborne's mini-Budget was final proof that "plan A has failed – colossally".

Wales football manager Gary Speed was found dead at his home by his wife, an inquest was told yesterday.

The dress worn by Amy Winehouse on the front of her Back to Black album has sold for more than £40,000 at auction.

The wife of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei was detained by police yesterday, the latest move in what has been seen as a concerted campaign to silence one of the government's most vocal critics.

She defected to the West but Lana Peters was never able to escape the shadow of her tyrannical father

The tax credit system, meant to help the "squeezed middle", appears to be a big loser in yesterday's Autumn Statement.

An estimated one in six adults are now cohabiting with their partner as the number of married couples in England and Wales continues to decline.

Nigeria's Senate has voted to outlaw gay marriage, gay advocacy groups and same-sex public displays of affection.

A person cannot choose her father. Svetlana Alliluyeva, née Svetlana Stalina, who died as Lana Peters, was a highly talented woman in her own right, as evidenced by the wonderful memoir Twenty Letters to a Friend that she produced soon after her sensational defection from the Soviet Union to the West. But throughout an extraordinarily varied and nomadic life that began in a gilded apartment in the Kremlin and ended in a small town in the gentle hills of the American Midwest, one thing she could never escape. She was the only daughter and last surviving child of Joseph Stalin, one of the towering figures of the 20th century, to this day a byword for tyranny and evil.

Michael Jackson's former doctor has been jailed for four years, three weeks after being found guilty of killing the pop star.

Mike Tindall today accused the Rugby Football Union of making him a "scapegoat" in a statement released through the Rugby Players Association.

Former X Factor contestant Gamu Nhengu, her two brothers and her mother have won their fight to stay in the UK.

Wales football manager Gary Speed was found hanged at his home by his wife, an inquest was told today.

A man who posed as a 14-year-old girl to entice children to perform sex acts in front of a web camera has been jailed for almost seven years.