Hannah Larsen is bringing a taste of CSI to the south coast of England

Hundreds of Ukrainians protested alleged fraud in last month's parliamentary election and the opposition threatened to boycott the new parliament and call for a re-vote today.

Eating two portions of oily fish a week could help ward off a stroke, research suggests.

A second skeleton found by archaeologists searching for the remains of King Richard III could be that of a friary's female founder.

Nearly one in five cruise holiday customers cannot swim, according to a survey.

Santander loses £52m from bid

The ability to recognize faces is so important in humans that the brain appears to have an area solely devoted to the task: the fusiform gyrus.

Admiralty Arch in £60m hotel deal

Stanford Ovshinsky was a self-taught inventor whose innovations have been incorporated into many hi-tech developments, from flat-screen televisions to laptop computers, He devised the term "ovonics", combining his own name and "electronics," to describe the technology behind the development of what he called "non-depletable, non-polluting energy sources." His aim was to reduce the world's dependence on fossil fuels with solar power and hydrogen. In 1999, Time included Ovshinsky among its "Heroes for the Planet."

Silvio Berlusconi, the former premier, said yesterday that he may not stand in elections next spring, and suggested that Mario Monti, the technocrat Prime Minister, could stay on as head of a centre-right government.

Two scientists who independently discovered how to manipulate individual atoms and particles of light have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for their research into the weird world of quantum mechanics, where something can exist in two different states at the same time.

Labour leader Ed Miliband today denied he was trying to play the class card by highlighting his education at a north London comprehensive.

Man spent months on remand after technician failed to follow basic laboratory procedures

In a fresh blow to the property market, figures due to be published today show that house prices fell for the third month in a row in September – by 0.1 per cent.