Britain's language gap years for primary school pupils
Sending children as young as 9 overseas for six months is a growing trend in the UK, where it's seen as one of the best ways to learn a second language.
Sending children as young as 9 overseas for six months is a growing trend in the UK, where it's seen as one of the best ways to learn a second language.
No one from the UK arm of Bernard Madoff's fraudulent investment business will face prosecution, the Serious Fraud Office has decided.
Stevie Wonder and Muse are to headline this year's Glastonbury Festival.
Rockabilly beauty Katherine Gould talks us through her carefully constructed look.
Looking around the East End of London's financial district, it is hard to believe the crisis ever happened.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been presented with more damaging evidence.
Asked to select a best-loved dress for a collectable tome, designers came up with some surprising choices.
Both are loving mothers, who after years of devoted care to their disabled children felt they had no choice but to take the law into their own hands but while one was allowed to walk free from court yesterday the other will go to jail.
Prince Harry has reportedly moved into his girlfriend's London home after he recently reunited with her after breaking up last year.
Is feminism to blame for the number of women who find themselves single? The Independent's Liz Hoggard delves into the issue.
George Clooney's Hope for Haiti Now telethon has raised US$57 million (NZ$79 million) so far.
Western food manufacturers are buying so little sustainable palm oil that the system set up to limit damage to tropical forests caused by the world's cheapest vegetable oil is in danger of collapse.
In the United Kingdom, calls are growing by opposition politicians and the public that the full report of the review of the case of two brothers who savagely attacked a pair of boys in Edlington, South Yorkshire, should be made public.
All Black legend Zinzan Brooke has spoken of his friendship with Elton John, telling how he donned the singer's clothes for a photoshoot and treated him to a haka.
The Flight of the Conchords' parodies have spoiled some music for us.
A UK woman will be locked up if she doesn't silence her extremely loud bedtime activities.
Chicagoans believe they have stolen a march on the French over Georges Seurat's painting and indeed they have.
Direct flights from Yemen to Britain will be banned as a key part of new anti-terrorist measures following the failed attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner, Gordon Brown announced yesterday.
A 3-D tribute to Michael Jackson is set to be shown at the forthcoming Grammy Awards, it has been revealed.