A monkey and dog take turns to share a lollipop in this touching video - but their unlikely friendship is cut hilariously short More »Hands off my snack! Hilarious moment monkey and puppy fall out while sharing a lollipop
By Peter Griffiths LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron ordered rebellious MPs on Thursday to back his plan for a law guaranteeing a vote on Britain's European Union membership as he sought shore up his party, his leadership and the coalition. Conservative rebels have been pushing him to take a hard line on Europe, resurrecting party splits that contributed to the downfall of former prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major in the 1990s. An election is due in 2015. ... More »Cameron tells EU rebels to back referendum law
London shares closed in negative territory on Thursday as poor unemployment data darkened the mood on the trading floors following a raft of weak economic data from the eurozone. More »London FTSE shares fall after weak US data
David Beckham, one of the world's most famous footballers, has called time on his career. More »Tributes pour in as Beckham quits
Nigel Clarke, 53, has painstakingly catalogued the intricate phone menus of hundreds of leading multi-national companies - some of which have up to 80 options. More »Frustrated IT manager creates website giving you shortcuts through menus on 'hellish' calls to automated phone centres
Chart-topping songwriter Emeli Sande was a double winner at the Ivor Novello Awards. More »Sande takes two at Novello Awards
Members of a group of young British computer hackers who masterminded sophisticated cyber attacks on major global institutions from their bedrooms have been jailed. More »LulzSec members jailed over hacking
Google has been branded devious, calculating and unethical as furious MPs step up pressure on the internet giant over its efforts to shelter its multi-billion profits from UK taxes. More »Google 'devious' over tax bill
A British World War II Lancaster bomber performed a flypast Thursday over a reservoir used for practice runs by the legendary "Dambusters" airmen, marking 70 years since their daring raid over Nazi Germany's industrial heartland. More »UK bomber flypast marks 70 years since Dambusters raid
Hundreds of well-wishers gathered at Derwent Reservoir to watch a flypast by a Lancaster bomber to mark the 70th anniversary of the war-time Dambuster raids. More »Flypast marks Dambuster anniversary
A jury has viewed a car belonging to murder suspect Mark Bridger and the bike that was being ridden by schoolgirl April Jones on the night she went missing. More »April jury views Bridger's car
The "sweetheart" tax deal between HM Revenue and Customs and Goldman Sachs was procedurally flawed but not unlawful, the High Court has ruled. More »HMRC tax deal ruled 'not unlawful'
Kelly Hoyles, 36, tipped the scales at a whopping 29 stone in 2003, but ignored doctors' warnings she was too obese to conceive. More »New mum told she was too fat to conceive loses 12 STONE - and gives birth to triplets
Feeding the birds will cost you more than a tuppence - a council has threatened prosecution should a piece of bread be pecked by a pigeon More »'Please don't feed the dirty, filthy vermin': Pigeon fines for shoppers?
The driver of a train that struck a teenage girl at a level crossing, killing her, has said she was "not looking", as an inquest into her death recorded a verdict of accidental death. More »Accidental Verdict For Teen's Crossing Death
England manager Roy Hodgson on Thursday recalled striker Andy Carroll and awarded a first call-up to Reading goalkeeper Alex McCarthy for the forthcoming friendlies with the Republic of Ireland and Brazil. More »McCarthy, Carroll get England call-ups
A police chase in Portland, Oregon, came to an abrupt halt when a family of ducks got in the way of a speeding traffic officer. More »The moment high-speed police chase was stopped by family of DUCKS
Police officers were called to sort out a bust-up at a British science-fiction convention as rival groups of "Star Wars" and other sci-fi fans rowed, reports said Thursday. More »UK sci-fi fans turn to the dark side at convention
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's tax authority was heavily criticised by a judge on Thursday, who nonetheless ruled its deal with Goldman Sachs worth up to 20 million pounds to the U.S. bank was lawful. High Court Judge Andrew Nicol dismissed a claim by campaign group UK Uncut Legal Action that the tax settlement with the bank in 2010 was an unlawful "sweetheart deal". But he criticised the way HMRC had decided how much tax Goldman Sachs should pay. ... More »UK judge says Goldman tax deal lawful, but "not glorious"
A three-week-old lamb has had its ears cut off in a "horrendous act of animal cruelty", the RSPCA has said. More »Young lamb's ears severed in attack
Frank Lampard has signed a one-year contract extension with Chelsea, the west London club said Thursday. More »Chelsea's Lampard signs one-year extension
Eurosceptic hopes of a law to guarantee a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU have been boosted after a Commons ballot. More »EU Refendum: Tory Hopes Of Law Boosted
LONDON (Reuters) - Confidence trickster Achilleas Kallakis, who received a seven-year jail sentence in January, will spend a further four years behind bars after a top British government lawyer called on senior judges for a tougher sentence. Kallakis, 44, duped banks out of more than 740 million pounds ($1.1 billion) by posing as a property tycoon based in the elite west-end district of Mayfair. ... More »UK court extends jail term for property fraudster Kallakis
Ian Pemble, 67, paid the £30 penalty after council officers sent him photos of his vehicle apparently flouting the law. More »Motorist's fury after he is handed bus lane fine for letting two fire engines past
Royal Bank of Scotland has announced it is cutting 1,400 jobs in the latest round of redundancies since it was bailed out by the taxpayer. More »RBS set to axe another 1,400 jobs