The Roman emperor Caligula is best known for making his horse a senator, but the figure portrayed in Albert Camus’s early play ‘Caligula’ had an over-arching and terrible significance.

I wanted to be a comedian or actor from as far back as i can remember When I was 21, I started putting my name down for open-mic nights and kept on bottling it. All I wanted to do was try it once because I didn't want to die without having done stand-up. Obviously, now I've died loads of times.

Can a pre-op transsexual hit-man also be a good mum? Dilemmas don't get more modern than this

A 15-year-old boy has drowned after jumping from a bridge into a river.

The synth pop songstress tells Elisa Bray that her new album reflects a struggle to reconcile success and syndrome

Many cling to a sense that if we only wait long enough, fairness and equality will eventually come about

Ken Loach is the latest director to complain about censorship, says Tim Walker. The rules on swearing are so arbitrary, it's no wonder he's effing and blinding

Business leaders questioned the value of GCSEs today.

A mother has been found guilty of having her 13-year-old daughter's boyfriend fatally attacked and then persuading her to take the blame.

Sun worshippers will finally be able to strip off their winter woollies and bask in some warming rays after weeks of grey skies and rain.

Director Michel Gondry brings New York teenagers to a world they'd never seen

This is Sapphire's long-awaited follow up to her bestselling novel, Push, which was adapted into the film, Precious, in 2009 , and it maintains the tension between the social disadvantages that her characters face and their heroic struggles to survive against these indomitable forces.

The Olympic Flame will arrive in the UK tonight after it was handed over at a ceremony in Athens.

A takeaway boss has been jailed for 15 years after paying under-age girls for sex and inciting others to become child prostitutes.