World champion Ronnie O'Sullivan says he will retire unless snooker chief Barry Hearn stops "blackmailing" him and his fellow players.

A mother who subjected her two youngest children to five years of cruelty, including forcing them into unpaid work and locking them in freezing bedrooms, is jailed.

Two 1960s petrol station canopies in Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire are given listed status by English Heritage.

The use of a photograph of Madeleine McCann to advertise holidays on an independent website is described as "vile" by the travel firm.

Maurice Sendak, the US author of the best-selling children's book Where the Wild Things Are, dies aged 83.

The daughter of a 94-year-old Birmingham woman who was attacked in her bed said her mother "screamed for help" but no-one came.

Nine men are convicted of being part of a child sexual exploitation ring in Greater Manchester.

An upgraded "underwear bomb" plot designed by al-Qaeda in Yemen to blow up a plane bound for the US is disrupted, US officials say.