Lewis Hamilton headed team-mate Nico Rosberg in first practice at the German Grand Prix as Mercedes' strong form continued.

Police had no lawful justification for shooting dead a 24-year-old man in north London eight years ago, an inquiry finds.

A film producer has won a High Court case against the surviving members of Monty Python over royalty rights to the hit stage show, Spamalot.

The Vatican says John Paul II is to become a saint, after approving a second miracle attributed to him.

Indignation is growing among cheese-lovers in France and the US after Washington branded a type of French cheese as unfit for human consumption.

The BBC is to suspend 3D programming indefinitely due to a "lack of public appetite" for the technology.

The police have confirmed authorising the secret recording of at least one meeting involving Duwayne Brooks, the friend of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, his lawyer says.

The woman whose body was found buried in a shallow grave on Corstorphine Hill, Edinburgh, is identified, police confirm.