A former Uber driver yelled "This is for my Syrian brothers" as he tried to decapitate a Tube passenger with a blunt knife in a "brutal" attack, a court heard today.

The 2-year-old is thought to have survived by licking condensation off the well's brick walls and eating insects in mud at the bottom.

British intelligence agencies now want to recruit more middle-aged mothers and are relaxing their requirements for a university degree in favour of "emotional intelligence".

The childhood home of Princess Diana is opening to overnight guests for the first time in order to raise money for charity.

British serial killer Joanna Dennehy had plotted to murder a guard and use their fingerprints to bypass a biometric system to escape from jail.

Young Australian boy whose first language is Gaelic faces deportation from Scotland.

Thousands of Kiwis are packing their sunhats and sun cream, preparing for a winter getaway.

The ugly attacks have returned with a vengeance - and receiving public applause.

It is an archaeological conundrum that has baffled generations of experts, but a group of university students have found the feat really isn't as hard as everyone imagined.

Now here are some results we would like to see. Donald Trump has insisted he is "not stupid" and challenged London's mayor Sadiq Khan to an IQ test on TV.

This sinister botanical wonderland is home to 100 of the world's most lethal plants...

Claims group of unnamed Met police officers gave money to fund in support of a Portuguese detective who said Madeleine McCann was killed by her parents.

Brits living in New Zealand have only got a couple of days to enrol for their their say on the Brexit.

British archaeologists dug up the tiny coffin in Giza, Egypt, nearly 100 years ago, and it has sat in a Cambridge museum ever since.

The past glory apparently hasn't stopped the Queen and her PM from still thinking themselves better than their former colonial subjects.

The British Queen was caught on camera making unguarded comments about a state visit last year by Chinese President Xi Jinping

The election of a candidate of Islamic Pakistani extraction as mayor of London is a proud moment for Britain and inclusion of minorities in its politics.

The "six-year-old boy" cuddled by "Baroness Bra" Michelle Mone has threatened to take up drinking.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, it is said, and this car parked up near Harrods appears to be a classic example.

COMMENT: The possibility of a majority of British voting for absolute sovereignty in their referendum has many people worried.

For many in Britain, the scandal is part of a wider problem for Labour's left wing.

A New Zealand man faces the prospect of being deported after allegedly abusing a waitress and assaulting a waiter.

It was an event that mixed solemnity, pomp, royalty and quite a bit of low farce. William Shakespeare probably would have approved.

Victoria Wood, who has died of cancer aged 62, found success in the 1970s as one of Britain's first female stand-up comics and the plump chanteuse of bittersweet songs.

London is marking 40 years since the summer punk was born with a series of events, gigs and exhibits.

Police in the UK launch investigation after footage of young Hull teen being bashed by three adults appears on social media.

She is marking her actual birthday on April 21 with three days of events in Windsor, before more elaborate festivities in London next month and on her official birthday in June.

Her birthday comes months after she surpassed the 23,226 days her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria spent on the throne to become Britain's longest-reigning monarch.

The BBC has been accused by a British Cabinet minister of "pursuing an agenda" against Culture Secretary John Whittingdale.

A high-tech marine drone scouring the depths of Scotland's Loch Ness for one of nature's most elusive beasts has found a "monster" - but not the one it was looking for.