Britain's Got Talent creator Simon Cowell has dismissed as "utter lies" a claim of a fix suggesting a contestant was groomed for the TV show.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh urges troops to confront his tribal opponents, in an audio message hours after he is injured in an attack.

The owners of a Pembrokeshire oil refinery are flying in experts from the US to help investigate the cause of an explosion which killed four people.

Identical twin Franciscan friars who were rarely separated die within hours of each other at the age of 92.

Ex-Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic appears at The Hague war crimes trial, saying he will not enter a plea to the "monstrous" charges.

A 41-year-old serial sex offender is given a life sentence after being convicted of raping and murdering nightclub goer Mary McLaren.

A £12m project to recreate the grandeur of Stirling Castle's renaissance royal palace is set to open to the public.

A judge in Florida says thousands of Colombians can sue Chiquita in a case linked to paramilitary torture and killings