What is the law which allows the UK to detain or deport foreign terrorism suspects without trial - and how does it work? BBC News Online explains the background to a controversial and secretive court ...

Plans to reconstruct an historic Brunel iron bridge near where it was uncovered two years ago have been unveiled. Isambard Kingdom Brunel's creation was hidden within a modern brick road bridge over ...

Each of the trains was laden with commuters; office workers, students and schoolchildren. Three of the trains set off from Alcala de Henares, about 12km to the east of Madrid. The fourth originated ...

Campaigners are calling for a ban on a device that emits a high-pitched sound to disperse groups of teenagers, saying it is not a fair way to treat them. There are estimated to be 3,500 of the devices ...

Cardiff City boss Dave Jones has been named as the Championship's manager of the month for August. The Bluebirds have collected 13 league points from a possible 15 - beating Barnsley, Coventry, Leeds ...

The caution given to Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc, who crossed himself during a match against Rangers, has brought the issue of sectarianism in Scotland back into sharp focus. The rivalry between ...

This year marks 30 years since the Notting Hill Carnival riot in 1976 - an important year for race relations and one which saw carnival hit the headlines - albeit for the wrong reasons. 1976 was bang ...

A gang member has been jailed for life for the murder of a man who was working to turn young people away from crime. Colin Brown, 38, was shot and stabbed as he intervened in a dispute on the Grange ...

Queen's "We Are The Champions" blares out in the Red Bull garage and engineers and mechanics start an Abu Dhabi karaoke. Think there will be a massive party with those boys. Oh... hang on it's on ...

An official report has concluded that former GP Harold Shipman killed at least 215 patients over more than 25 years. His confirmed victims, all ruled unlawfully killed at the inquiry, or for whose ...

The ice-cool Swedish champion Bjorn Borg against the brash John McEnroe who was snapping at his heels for the crown of the world's best player. Borg's four-year reign at Wimbledon seemed over when the ...

Mohammad Sidique Khan, a 30-year-old married father-of-one, was the oldest of the four suicide bombers who attacked London's transport network, and is thought to have taken the lead role in the plot.