Queen Camilla cancels events due to chest infection
BBC Queen Camilla has pulled out of a number of scheduled engagement this week due a chest infection, Buckingham Palace has said. No further details regarding her illness or treatment…
Equatorial Guinea vice-president warns against office sex after Baltasar Ebang Engonga videos
Civil servants caught having sex in their offices will face “severe measures”, the vice-president of Equatorial Guinea has warned after hundreds of allegedly pornographic videos were leaked to the public.…
Teacher banned after stamping on boy’s head and attacking pupil
Google Thomas Taylor assaulted one of the boys at Heathfield Primary School in Ayr A former primary school teacher has been banned from the profession for two years after assaulting…
Hay-on-Wye gallery defies police and puts more nudes on show
Val Harris The gallery includes 50 nude artworks of both men and women A gallery given a police order to remove a nude painting from its window display has now…
Endangered pygmy hippo calf born at Edinburgh zoo
An “incredibly rare” female baby hippopotamus has been born at Edinburgh Zoo. The tiny endangered pygmy hippo calf, named Haggis, arrived on 30 October and zookeepers said her personality was…
What is the UK smoking ban and how many people still smoke?
Smoking puts enormous pressure on the NHS. It kills about 80,000 people a year, external, and is responsible for one in four of all deaths from cancer. It is also…
Both trains were moving, report reveals
Mr Evans, from Capel Dewi, Ceredigion, died after the crash and four others were seriously injured. A further 11 people sustained injuries which required hospital treatment On Tuesday, the RAIB…
Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Barack Obama lead tributes
Getty Images Quincy Jones discovered Oprah Winfrey and cast her in 1985 film The Color Purple Some of the biggest names in popular culture and politics, from Oprah Winfrey and…
Queen Elizabeth’s wedding cake slice sells for £2,200 at auction
John Fairhall/BBC The 77-year-old cake was found in a suitcase under a bed in Scotland A “very rare” slice of wedding cake from the marriage of Queen Elizabeth II and…
Survey finds record low number of teen boys had first kiss
In many countries it’s a teenage right of passage: a first kiss. But a new survey of Japanese high school students has revealed that four out of five 15-18-year-old boys…