An Asian elephant uses his trunk to imitate human speech, scientists report.

Norman Lamb says terminally ill patients should not be put on the Liverpool Care Pathway to end their lives without relatives being consulted.

An independent review into BBC Newsnight's shelving of a programme about alleged sex abuse by Sir Jimmy Savile will report later this month.

The family of a 12-year-old Lincolnshire boy who went missing on an island in France are told that a body has been found.

The death toll from Sandy tops 80 as swathes of the US East Coast battle to recover, three days after being smashed by the massive storm.

The Foreign Office spent £10,000 on "essential maintenance" to a stuffed anaconda called Albert, it has been revealed.

A retired London businessman extradited to the United States pleads guilty to selling weapons parts to Iran.

Greek journalist Costas Vaxevanis is cleared of breach of privacy after publishing the names of 2,000 Greeks he suspected of evading taxes.