Ronnie Pickering needs no introduction, his self-assured and strangely prophesizing fame has him firmly planted in the "worst driver caught on camera" cannon for this spat in northern England.

David Cameron has said lurid allegations about Oxford University initiation are "nonsense" and "completely untrue".

BBC journalist Sarah Teale was filming a report in the street about the harassment of women - then she became a victim herself.

This is the astonishing sight that greeted police officers investigating reports of "a few cannabis plants" in London.

John Key had #ponytailgate, David Cameron has #PigGate. And judging by the reaction on social media, this is one that won't be easily shrugged off.

A new biography claims Britain's Prime Minister once put a "private part of his anatomy" into a dead pig's mouth.

UK intelligence agency MI5 is paying Muslim informants for controversial short-term spying missions targeting homegrown Islamist extremists.

Cara Delevingne has become the second-richest supermodel in the world beating Kate Moss for the first time.

A narcissistic blowhard leads the Republican presidential race. Australia goes through PMs like a banana republic on fast-forward. What's going on?

Gayle Newland disguised her appearance and voice to dupe her friend into having sex.

In her first public appearance since July, the Duchess of Cambridge revealed a new fringe as she arrived at church yesterday with her husband Prince William.

The family of a Kiwi man who was stabbed to death are being offered support from a trust set up in the memory of a teenager who also died from knife wounds.

Corbyn's rise echoes that of another senior-citizen socialist who has come out of nowhere this year to rattle his party's centre-left establishment.

Jeremy Corbyn will shake up British politics and represents a reaction against the legacy of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, Labour leader Andrew Little says.

British farmers are bleating after a supermarket was accused of trying to pass off Kiwi lamb as Scottish.

Xenia Taliotis spends a day at one of the unhappiest places on Earth.

Lawyer who offended female barrister after saying her LinkedIn profile picture was "stunning" used social media to call his own daughter "hot".

Woman who claims she was assaulted by female friend pretending to be a man tells court they sunbathed together while she was blindfolded.

Rugby fans heading over to London for the 2015 Rugby World Cup, due to kick off in just over nine days, can expect to arrive in a city full of colour and brimming with tournament excitement.

Antony Britton's escape bid goes wrong after he tries to emulate Harry Houdini and wriggle out of a coffin six feet under.

A British developer has come up with an ingenious way of getting rid of annoying spam emails and getting revenge on the people sending them in one fell swoop.

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has snapped up an eight-bedroom 17th-century Grade II-listed home in north London.

If there's a positive to his stunning rise, it's that he's the absolute antithesis of the carefully groomed and packaged identikit candidate, writes Paul Thomas.

A British technology company has developed an iPhone that can go a week without recharging, running instead off a built-in hydrogen fuel cell.

World-renowned pianist found beaten to death in her home, and police have arrested husband on suspicion of murder.

The Holocaust-denying historian David Irving has sparked anger by organising $4,830 tours of concentration camps.

Sir Michael Bear visited Auckland today to raise interest in investing in £100 billion worth of regeneration projects.

A man was left with a parking ticket after he left his car on yellow lines for just six minutes because his 100-year-old mother-in-law needed the toilet.

The British spy whose body was found padlocked inside a bag in his flat had illegally hacked into secret data on former US President Bill Clinton.