Scouts travelling on a coach in Canada were involved in a head-on crash with a lorry.

Two Britons arrested after staging a Free Tibet protest outside China's showpiece Olympic Stadium have predicted the games will be disrupted by more demonstrations.

Some common fertility treatments are no more effective than leaving things to Mother Nature, research suggested.

The first pictures of a couple seen by a woman who reported a potential sighting of Madeleine McCann in Holland have been released.

An "innocent bystander" killed in a convenience store died of a single gun shot wound to the back, Scotland Yard said.

A lack of adult role models is fuelling a rise in UK youngsters joining gangs, a charity said.

Nine in 10 young people want to be able to discuss terrorism and preventing extremism in schools or youth centres, a survey has found.

More than half of all secondary schools in the poorest areas of England are officially classed as failing, it has been claimed.

Rail commuters were evacuated from a major train station after a fire in an engine.

Most motorists would still stick to car travel even if petrol prices soared, it has been revealed.

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