Mysterious absence led to speculation over whether search giant was hiding an ailing chief

Scientists, academics and medics gather this week in a London hotel to discuss a topic that has been virtually unmentionable in academic circles for decades: are humans descended from “aquatic apes” that spent more time swimming than dragging their knuckles on  the ground?

Rise in complaints to press watchdog

"The singing is no problem," Edwyn Collins maintains. "[But] the talking is a bit dodgy, to say the least."

The Wanted singer Nathan Sykes is to undergo specialist surgery to save his voice and will take a break from the chart-topping group to recover.

A synthetic kidney made from a patient’s own skin cells might soon be ready for the first human transplant following the creation of a similar artificial organ in laboratory animals, scientists said today.

Meat Loaf staggers, hunched and panting, around the stage like a wounded hog. It's disquieting and to start with the burly singer, perspiring profusely, is more like a hedgehog out of hell for his farewell tour. However, with the considerable assistance of his brassy “backing” singer Patti Russo, a willing audience - there are lifetime Loafers here, with T-shirts to prove it - and some sensational, Jim Steinman created soft-rock ballads the 65-year-old showman pulls through.

A psychologist claims that the confrontational daytime TV show reinforced the child-killer’s behaviour, rather than challenging it

Tributes have been paid to a 14-year-old girl who is thought to have been killed by a pack of "aggressive and out of control" dogs.

A dip in the sea will be the last thing on many people’s minds this Easter – but that may be for the best on some parts of the coast, with the quality of seawater dramatically worsening at famous British bathing spots because of last year’s heavy summer rainfall.

Leader deposed as rebels storm capital

Heartburn also linked to condition which is killing more British males every year

York, a stud of deep blue on the belt of red leather that keeps the nation's political trousers from falling down, was always going to be kind to for Gove

Mancunian axes 22 shows, saying: 'The reports of my death have been greatly understated'