Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave joins American Hustle as the frontrunner at this year's Golden Globe awards.

The Queen marked the level in bowls of nuts left around Buckingham Palace as she was "irritated" by police officers eating them, the Old Bailey hears.

Parties in the Spanish region of Catalonia agree to hold a referendum on independence next year - but the Spanish government vows to block it.

The death toll in the Glasgow helicopter crash rises to 10 as Bond Air Services, which operated the EC 135 aircraft, temporarily grounds the model.

Bangladesh executes Islamist leader Abdul Kader Mullah, convicted of atrocities during the country's 1971 war of independence.

A man is jailed for five years for punching and killing another man during a row over a disabled parking space in a supermarket car park.

The government will have to find billions of pounds of fresh savings from the welfare budget, says the Chancellor, George Osborne.

A Royal Navy veteran dies after drinking a Caribbean pear juice drink laced with cocaine.