When Michael Gove announced that he was preparing to introduce a new two-tier system of examinations at 16, resembling the old O-levels and CSEs, the response from the teaching profession and the Government's coalition partners was predictable.

A tourist who left his car parked near the House of Commons came back to find it had been blown up by anti-terror police and issued with a parking ticket.

Life on Marsden

Minis always felt like nippy motors – but can they really be sports cars?

Man confesses to killing of six-year-old whose disappearance prompted long-running campaign

Classic and historic vehicles are to be exempted from the annual MoT test, the Government announced today.

A bomb targeting a former Colombian interior minister killed at least two people today and injured at least 19 others in the heart of Bogota's commercial district, authorities said.

Fears for the security of unarmed observers in Syria were heightened today after a roadside bomb struck an army truck accompanying a convoy of UN monitors, amid mounting warnings that the country risks slipping into a full scale civil war.

The established Ballydoyle stars are scheduled to glitter at Newmarket at the weekend, with Camelot and Maybe, last year's top-rated juvenile colt and filly, short-priced favourites for the 2,000 Guineas and 1,000 Guineas respectively. But there have been echoes of light from some of their less-exposed Aidan O'Brien stablemates, notably the filly Kissed at Navan yesterday and the colt Imperial Monarch at Sandown on Saturday.

Detectives were continuing today to question a 48-year-old man arrested following a siege in central London.

Saturdays have got sillier with Sky Atlantic's new and curiously dated series set on Broadway

Engine: 1.6-litre four-cylinder petrol, turbocharged
Transmission: six-speed manual
Power: 184 PS
Torque: 240 Nm between 1,600 and 5,000 rpm
Fuel consumption (combined cycle): 47.1 mpg
CO2 emissions: 139 g/km
Top speed: 141 mph
Acceleration (0-62 mph): 7.0 seconds
Price: £20,905

Porsche's Boxster sheds its apologetic skin to reveal the beast within

A man armed with a "large axe" has been arrested after attacking a police car in a rural village, a force said today.