The Walt Disney entertainment group has restructured its leadership after a major revolt by its shareholders. It has split the roles of chairman and chief executive, reducing the ...

Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, who made a controversial film about Islamic culture, has been stabbed and shot dead in Amsterdam, Dutch police say. Police arrested a man in a nearby park after an ...

Sudanese police have fired tear gas at stone-throwing protesters, who were demanding democratic reform. Unconfirmed reports say dozens of protesters were arrested during the clashes, in the city of ...

Adele has two Top 40 singles as well as the number one album Singer Adele's debut album, 19, has gone straight to the top of the UK chart in its first week. The 19-year-old Londoner, who won the BBC's ...

The measure is part of a reform package put forward by President Putin to boost security after the Beslan school siege.

Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to take control of Equitas, the firm set up by the Lloyd's insurance market to handle billions of pounds in asbestos claims. Lloyds set up Equitas in 1996 when it was at ...

A cat is baffling his owner by wandering off at night before expecting to be collected by car every morning at exactly the same time and place. Sgt Podge, a Norwegian Forest Cat, disappears from his ...

A portrait by Gustav Klimt that was looted by Nazis during World War II has reportedly sold for a record price. The New York Times said the city's Neue Galerie paid $135m (£73m) for the oil painting ...

A man has been charged with last year's £26.5m Northern Bank robbery in Belfast, police have said. The 23-year-old, the first ...

A BBC investigation into the ringleader of the 7 July bombing gang has revealed details of how he turned to terrorism. The Radio Four documentary about Mohammad Sidique Khan established he spent most ...

It's often said that Santa's red and white robes were the creation of a Coca-Cola advertising campaign. Is that true? He's got his own style and he sticks to it. Father Christmas is the universally ...

Judge Mawrey said evidence of "massive, systematic and organised fraud" in the campaign had made a mockery of the election and ruled that not less than 1,500 votes had been cast fraudulently in the ...