A 22-year-old man is in hospital with life threatening head injuries after being attacked outside a mosque in the West Midlands.

Favourite Camelot will head the smallest Epsom Derby field for more than a century as nine runners line up in the big race on Saturday.

Steven Gerrard insists Brendan Rodgers was always first choice to succeed Kenny Dalglish as Liverpool manager.

A soldier from 1st Battalion, the Royal Welsh has been shot dead during a foot patrol in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says.

Almost a quarter (24%) of childcare providers are running at a loss, with a further 11% just breaking even suggests a report for the government.

A Egyptian court is due to decide whether ex-leader Hosni Mubarak is guilty of conspiracy in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising.

Syria is sliding towards all-out civil war, British Foreign Secretary William Hague warns.

Promiscuity, and divorce have reached epidemic proportions in the UK, the Bishop of London says, as he urges people to restore relationships.