A Labour election poster launch has been overshadowed by a car crash just yards away, ITN report.
The incident occurred at Hockley Circus outside the New Bingley Hall community and conference centre in Birmingham.
Several senior Cabinet ministers, including Lord Mandelson and Chancellor Alistair Darling, were gathered in the car park for the launch.
As the Business Secretary [...]
A man has burned himself to death after injuring five children with a hammer at a nursery class, ITN reports.
The attack in Weifang, in Shandong province is the third in three days and the fifth in recent weeks on Chinese schoolchildren.
Two youngsters were pulled away from the man, after he poured gasoline and set himself [...]
Two men have appeared at Cardiff Crown Court charged with the murder of a schoolboy who was killed on his own doorstep, BBC reports.
Ben Hope, 36, and Jason Richards, 35, stand accused of killing Aamir Siddiqi in Roath, Cardiff.
The pair, both from the city, are charged with the murder of the 17-year-old and the attempted [...]
Banking giant Barclays has revealed a £1.82 billion profit haul for the first three months of 2010, ITN reports.
It is a further sign of “economic recovery”.
The result marks a 90 per cent leap on pre-tax profits seen a year earlier, on an underlying basis and with one-off items stripped out.
Barclays continued to reap the benefits [...]
Only days after he was elected PFA Player of the Year, Wayne Rooney is also Footballer of the Year, voted by the Football Writers` Association.
Rooney, 24, recieved 81% of the votes, to beat out Didier Drogba and Carlos Tevez.
The Manchester United striker has tallied a total of 34 goals this season, and it might be [...]
After beeing down 0-1 for large parts og the game, Fulham netted home two late goals which gave them tickets to the Europa Cup-final. There could have been another British team in the final, but Liverpool once again disappointed, sending Atletico Madid through.
Mladen Petric scored on a spectacular free-kick to give Hamburg the lead in the 22nd minute. Fulham [...]
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s debt is under control and it will not have to ask for help like fellow euro zone member Greece, Economy Minister Elena Salgado said in an interview with newspaper Cinco Dias published on Friday.
“Our debt is clean, we will not have to ask for help,” she said.
The country is sticking to [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Language software maker Rosetta Stone Inc’s trademark infringement lawsuit against Google Inc has been dismissed by a federal judge.
Rosetta has vowed to keep pursuing the case which has broad implications for trademark ownership in the digital age.
In the suit filed in 2009, Rosetta claimed Google profits by allowing rivals that pirate [...]
A man will appear in court today accused of murdering Milly Dowler eight years ago.
Levi Bellfield, 41, is alleged to have kidnapped the 13-year-old as she walked in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in 2002.
Prosecutors claim he then killed her before dumping her body in Yateley Heath, Hampshire.
Bellfield, originally from West Drayton, Middlesex, is expected to appear by [...]
An oil spill that threatens to become America’s worst environmental disaster in decades, spread out of control and started washing ashore along the Gulf Coast on Thursday night as fishermen rushed to scoop up shrimp and crews spread floating barriers around marshes, ITN reports.
The spill was much bigger than imagined, five times more than first [...]
