Five million people worldwide were affected by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, which was triggered by an earthquake with the energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type atom bombs. Here, we review a thought-provoking new novel about one of the world’s most deadly natural disasters and its aftermath. By Lucy Bryson Just before...

Derbyshire police dog PD Axle was knifed while on duty

Pat Moss, 56, went into cardiac arrest at home and started bleeding from his mouth

What’s so bad about existing in a fat body? Since I was a teenager I can remember that to be fat was a ‘bad thing’. The people around me, and the media I was exposed to, spoke about it as if it was the worst thing that could ever happen...

Alastair Cook walks out at The Oval today for his last test match against India hoping to sign off with a century in the same way he kicked off his international career in 2006.  The opener has racked up 12,254 Test runs in that time and appeared in a world...

Scott Spurling appeared in court charged with assaulting an officer, assault by beating and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal

Carl Hartley, 26, was arrested and bailed an extraordinary five times on suspicion of committing separate rapes

Albanian Suzanna Sokolli, 57, tied the cash-stuffed stockings around her waist as she tried to leave Britain with her son, Xhino Mata, 24, through the Port of Dover.

Corey Junior Davis was gunned in a playground near his east London home last September in what is believed to be a turf war between rival gangs