The pair of civic-minded New Yorkers transformed a disused train track rising some 30ft above Manhattan's bustling streets into a horticultural sanctuary.

A train has derailed this morning following a landslide in Cumbria.

Publishers of London 2012 trivia guides will be fuming after Malawi's two Paralympic athletes, the visually impaired sprinters Chisomo Jeremani and Janet Shedani, withdrew hours before the Games began, changing the number of competing nations from 166 to 165.

India's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of the only surviving gunman of the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.

Forecasters warned of torrential downpours tomorrow for the first day of the Bank Holiday weekend.

Two transportation disasters struck a northeastern Chinese province in 24 hours, with a bridge collapse  upending four trucks and killing three people today and a collision of passenger trains at a railway station injuring at least 24 people.

The man who pays his way

The phenomenal success of Fifty Shades Of Grey and other copycat “passion” books gave a lift to retailer WH Smith today.

There’s not much to Mutchilba – just one shop, a post office, a hall and a scattering of houses. But residents are fond of their tiny Queensland township – and they were taken aback, to say the least, to learn that it no longer existed.

Nina Bawden, the author of 48 books including the children's story Carrie's War, has died at the age of 87.

Virgin Atlantic is set to launch its first domestic service, flying passengers between London and Manchester.

Rail commuters on a busy route into London had their journeys severely disrupted today.