Reopening one of the most highly charged debates in Britain, top UK judge Nicholas Phillips has advocated the use of sharia law but without the use of severe physical punishments.

Mervyn Wright, the International Spiritualist Federation chief who claimed to be acting as a conduit for powers of an ancient Chinese medicine man, has been jailed for raping girls and young women while giving them naked energy massages.

India-born controversial author Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' has established an unassailable lead over five other contenders in global public voting for the 'Best of the Booker' award.

Berlin's new waxwork museum on Thursday unveiled a figure of a glum-looking Adolf Hitler in a mock bunker during the last days of his life, an exhibit that has been criticised as in bad taste.

Pop star Kylie Minogue received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to music from Prince Charles on Thursday.

Police have arrested 1,214 people in London during a six-week crackdown on knife crime, Scotland Yard said on Wednesday.

In the past century, 'SOS' has become a firm part of popular culture used in everything from DIY program titles to Abba hits.

A 1,300-strong band of dissident priests from Asia and Africa have threatened to leave the church if women are ordained as bishops. The rift has provoked the spiritual head, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to hit back at the “reversal of power” attempt.

Like Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI, Bruni considers herself to be one of the most beautiful woman in Europe.