Lionel Messi has been omitted from Uefa's 2013 team of the year in the same week he lost the Ballon d'Or to Cristiano Ronaldo.

Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw says that teachers should stop presenting themselves as "victims".

British paedophiles are among those paying to watch the abuse of children in the Philippines via webcams, a BBC investigation finds.

A man armed with a six-inch knife who was rugby tackled to the ground by police outside Buckingham Palace is sentenced to 16 months in prison.

At least 73 people have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in central Iraq, police and medical officials say.

A couple who took their three children on a week's holiday to Greece during school term time are ordered to pay nearly £1,000 in fines and costs.

Jobs in the UK's creative industries - including film and the arts - have grown by more than 8% in recent years and buck the trend for minimal expansion, according to new figures.

A gnome, a family photograph set on a decorative ostrich egg and a set of golf clubs are among gifts received by the Royal Family in 2013.