Three newly hatched peregrine falcon chicks have been stolen from their nest on top of a building in Kingston.

A 50-year-old man has been charged with criminal damage after an incident at a research centre where a trial of GM wheat is taking place.

Insurers are paying out more than £1 million a week to the victims of metal theft, the industry's association said today.

Cross-Save function smooths transition between PS Vita and PS3 play.

His pen-name was created from two characters in Grimm's fairy tales, but his novels had little in common with the moralistic fantasies of mittel-Europe. Rudolf Ditzen was a magistrate's son, raised in Berlin and immersed in Dickens, Flaubert and Dostoevsky. He became one of the greatest German authors of the 20th century, but was not translated into English until 2009.

Manchester City officials called in police after a teenage fan made off with the title-winning ball in the club's Premier League triumph.

The ruling ANC has demanded that a painting be removed from an exhibition because it seems to depict President Jacob Zuma with his genitals hanging out.

Sex toys worth £11,000 have been stolen by burglars who raided a mail order company, police said.

Benefit cheats will be fined up to £2,000 without being taken to court under new powers from today, which the Government said will save the taxpayer around £42 million over the next three years.

Two men have been charged over the theft of a hoard of Chinese art from a Cambridge museum.

The theft of railway cable brought travel misery to passengers in the Midlands for the second time in a week today.

The head of Britain's election's watchdog is facing a fight to keep her job following allegations of voting fraud set to mar today's local and mayoral elections.

A man has been charged in connection with a raid on a university museum where Chinese artefacts worth more than £2m were stolen.

Flaws in the postal voting system allow fraud on 'an industrial scale', say members of the judiciary