It began and ended with the Millennium Dome, the financial and political disaster that dogged all those who played a part in it. In between its fanfare opening and damp-squib closure, 2000 saw ...

Four people, including a teenage girl, are jailed for the random killing of a barman who survived the Soho nail bomb attack.

Sarah Storey and Rachel Morris won their second gold medals for Britain at the 2010 UCI World Paracycling Road Championships in Canada. Riding in the C5 category, defending champion Storey outsprinted ...

Residents were shocked after a caravan with effigies of Gypsies was burnt at a village bonfire party. The caravan was wheeled through a street in Firle, East Sussex, before being torched. Now the ...

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has urged people to "have faith" that some of the worst snow storms in 50 years can be overcome, state media says. Mr Wen called the extreme weather a "severe natural ...

A new £20 note featuring a portrait of Scottish economist Adam Smith has come into circulation. The note includes a range of enhanced security measures designed to prevent counterfeiting, such as a ...

The caution given to Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc, who crossed himself during a match against Rangers, has brought the issue of sectarianism in Scotland back into sharp focus. The rivalry between ...

BACHELORS, the party is over. Unmarried men will no longer be officially labelled with this old-fashioned term after the Registrar General of England and Wales decreed it belongs to a bygone era. In a ...

The life and times of Britain's next prime minister Gordon Brown - from gifted child to driven politician.

An Italian appeals court has acquitted two leading British Formula One engineers of the manslaughter of the Brazilian legend Ayrton Senna. The court ruled that ex-Williams chief designer Adrian Newey ...

France's strict brand of secularism has deep historical roots - but some want to soften it, says the BBC's Henri Astier.

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