As a new surge in knife crime grips the capital, researchers found the frequency of stabbings spike between 4pm and 6pm - attributable to incidents occurring on school days

And, worryingly, the chemicals are being passed in to the food stream when the contaminated insects are eaten by predators - both in the water and on land

Hundreds of mass graves with 12,000 victims have been found in a former ISIS territory in Iraq. The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published a report on the findings today, detailing evidence of the 202 mass graves they have ...

Scientists have designed the 'bioreactor' that can induce partial hindlimb regeneration in adult aquatic African clawed frogs by "kick-starting" tissue repair at the amputation site

The 16-year-old was murdered on a housing estate in Tulse Hill in south London last night

Five men have been arrested over the burning effigy.

William Sitwell’s resignation from the Waitrose in-house magazine last week, after making some seriously ill-advised comments about veganism, generated the usual explosion of opprobrium from those who also see vegans as the devil incarnate. Writer Selene Nelson’s Twitter feed was jumping with trolls queuing up to castigate her for robbing ...

A group of yobs have mocked a rough sleeper before leaving his clothes and skin burnt by putting a firework in his pocket.

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha's helicopter took off from the King Power Stadium pitch moments before it crashed outside