Three MPs and a peer tell a court they are not guilty of charges of false accounting in relation to their expenses claims.
Plans for a new high-speed rail line between London and Birmingham are announced by Transport Secretary Lord Adonis.
The Chancellor Alistair Darling warns not to expect a "giveaway" when the Budget is announced later this month.
Relatives of kidnapped five-year-old Sahil Saeed speak of their anguish as reports of his release turn out to be false.
A report into parents who cheat to get their child into a school calls for whistleblowing hotlines to be set up.
Justice Secretary Jack Straw meets the mother of murdered toddler James Bulger to discuss the return to prison of one of her son's killers.
Britain should apologise to ex-Bosnian president for "mistreating" him in prison, says chairman of the joint presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The mechanism by which thalidomide causes malformed limbs is revealed by scientists.
Police arrest an 18-year-old on suspicion of manslaughter after a man collapsed and died outside his home in Greater Manchester.
Blue Peter dog Mabel, one of the show's longest-serving pets, is to retire after 14 years, it is announced.
Fulham play Juventus in the last 16 of the Europa League after Liverpool are beaten in Lille.
Liverpool face an uphill task to progress from the last 16 of the Europa League after Eden Hazard's goal gave a lively Lille side a first-leg lead.
England will make a last-minute call on the fitness of Stuart Broad for the first Test against Bangladesh in Chittagong.
Thousands of pupils swap classrooms for newsrooms
Can neuroscience help us solve conflicts?
Are we really ready to let go of the education balloons?
One family's experience of anti-social behaviour
Keeping up with the theatrical Joneses
New skirmishes in war of Daily Mail v the internet
UK forces are to hand security powers in the Afghan district of Musa Qala to US troops, the defence secretary says.
A female pornographic film director is selected as the Lib Dem prospective parliamentary candidate for Gravesham, Kent.
A businessman is jailed for masterminding a scam which saw tens of millions of battery hen eggs sold as free-range or organic.
A retired stockbroker from Surrey is jailed after being convicted of insider dealing.
A British Airways computer expert has appeared in court charged with planning suicide bombings.
Hamas releases a British journalist it had held for a month in Gaza, saying at a news conference that it suspects him of being a spy.
London Underground is to axe up to 800 jobs under plans to make savings of £16m a year, the company announces.
Police forces in England and Wales are being criticised for failing to deal adequately with anti-social behaviour.
The bodies of five British servicemen killed in Afghanistan last week are flown back to RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire.
A woman convicted of trying to kill her husband in what she said was a failed "mercy killing" dies in an assisted suicide in Switzerland.
It's a big task, so how do you recycle a plane?
Can a fatwa to counter a fatwa really work?
Test yourself, now Royal Mail will no longer limit the stuff
Failings by police and social services over two sisters raped by their father over many years is widely reported in Thursday's papers.
Musician Pete Doherty is banned from driving after admitting allowing his manager to use his car without insurance.
One of Britain's most iconic steam trains will return to the rails with the help of Greater Manchester heritage railway enthusiasts.
Two men are found guilty of murdering a County Tyrone supermarket manager because he was gay almost two years ago.
A man who was on the run for four years over the kidnap and attack on a dissident republican is remanded in custody.
The UK government's proposals for a high-speed rail link must include Scotland, the Scottish government says.
A Dundee teacher convicted of assaulting two pupils is given an absolute discharge after an appeal.
A man is jailed for murdering his ex-girlfriend but his barrister says she would be alive if a 999 call had been handled differently.
The number of patients waiting more than 26 weeks for referral to a hospital in Wales rose during January.
AP - The Internet has gotten its way: Betty White will host "Saturday Night Live."
AP - Without a TV show to do every night, Conan O'Brien is taking his act on the road.
AP - Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Elizabeth Dole welcomed 250 veterans to the World War II memorial Thursday to honor their service and introduce a TV miniseries on the battles of the Pacific.
AP - Merlin Olsen, a Hall of Fame defensive lineman and member of the Los Angeles Rams' "Fearsome Foursome" who followed up football with a successful television career in "Little House on the Prairie," NFL broadcasts and commercials, has died. He was 69.
AP - A stage adaptation of John Grisham's first novel, "A Time to Kill," will have its world premiere next year in Washington in what is being billed as a "pre-Broadway" production.
AP - In a victory for the concept album, Britain's High Court on Thursday ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band's original records.
AP - Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
AP - The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
Reuters - The Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled its first group of films for April's event, including one documentary about the prostitution scandal that brought down former New York governor Eliot Spitzer.
Reuters - The Bolivian woman who inspired Mario Vargas Llosa's 1977 novel "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter," and married Peru's best-known writer when he was 19, has died at age 84.
Fashion Wire Daily - It was 1960s modernism meets Louis XIV at the latest collection of Miu Miu, the final show of Paris fashion week that ended Wednesday evening, March 10.
AP - Chain book store Books-A-Million Inc. reported Thursday that its profit edged up slightly in the fourth quarter despite a drop in sales.
The Newsroom - Burberry has become the premiere brand to break through fashion week's fourth wall this season by staging the world's first-ever global 3D fashion show. (To note, the British fashion brand wasn't the only one to engage with the technology conceived more than half-a-century ago: Los Angeles tailored menswear label Native Son's New York Fashion Week presentation included a multi-dimensional video that required 3D glasses for viewing.)
Reuters - A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign Friday against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care.
Reuters - A German woman, fearful that a burglar was trying to break into her second storey apartment, called police after she heard someone climbing up to her balcony shortly after midnight, police said Thursday.
Reuters - In search of Mr. or Mrs. Right, dozens of Japanese are attending a newly launched school in Tokyo that aims to turn them into marriage material.
Reuters - A 16th century dog, the only known female to have served aboard King Henry VIII's ill-fated flagship the Mary Rose, has stolen the show at Britain's Crufts dog show this year.
Reuters - A New Zealand woman sold two vials that she said contained the ghosts of an old man and a young girl for almost NZ$2,000 ($1,410) after a fiercely contested online auction, local media reported.
Reuters - Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday.
Reuters - An elephant gave birth to a calf at Sydney's main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared the baby had died in the womb.
Reuters - Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products.
Reuters - A court in Cyprus remanded two men in custody Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its discovery Monday.
Reuters - Wild elephants rampaged through a southern village in Angola last weekend, destroying farms and dozens of houses and prompting most of its 4,000 residents to flee to neighboring Namibia, a local official said Tuesday.
Reuters - Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable Formula 3 racing car has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds.
Reuters - Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than whites and Asians to lose sleep over job and money worries, a sleep survey released on Monday found.
Reuters - Don't mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa to scrap plans to make the country's national anthem gender-neutral.
Reuters - Australian underwear company AussieBum has been monkeying around and the result is a range of men's underwear made with bananas.
Reuters - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Thursday banned men in the Gaza Strip from working in women's hair salons, vowing to arrest and try offenders.
Reuters - A Swedish pilot with a fake commercial license was arrested in his cockpit at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport as he prepared to fly 101 passengers on a Boeing 737 to Turkey, Dutch police said Wednesday.
Reuters - Performers in London's West End are having to cope with a different kind of stage fright in the form of mice, rat and flea infestations in theatres, according to a new survey by actors' union Equity.
Reuters - China must urgently address the physical fitness of the nation's youth or run the risk of raising a generation incapable of fighting the Japanese in a future war, the head of the country's top sports university said Thursday.
Reuters - "O Canada," the country's national anthem, has included the line, "True patriot love in all thy sons' command," for nearly 100 years.
Reuters - An investigation is underway into why a young child, apparently under an adult's supervision, was allowed to direct air traffic at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday.
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The Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination tour heads north to Anchorage until April 25
The hardcover novel is by Aaron Allston and features a cover design by Ian Keltie with Ben Skywalker as the focus. Here is the synopsis of the book followed by an excerpt from chapter two.
Artist Randy Martinez gives Boba the axe
You can beat a path this summer to get a pair!
Lucasfilm associate David Iskra reports from the Dublin, Ireland performance of Star Wars: In Concert!
Submit your best caption for this image and we'll post our favorites next Friday!
A brief introduction to the writing systems of Galactic Basic...
We list our favorite captions submitted by readers!
Another peek at Star Wars: Visions...
A ton of new avatar items for you to bring Home!
The tour returns to North America starting in Ft. Myers, Florida on May 13, 2010!
An interview with Vader mask sculptor Brian Muir as well as discussions with Clone Wars voice actors and a rare peek at Empire storyboards highlight the latest issue of Insider!
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War still rages in the galaxy! The Republic's Clone Army and Jedi Knights continue to fight the Separatist threat.
The Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic continues with another exclusive, action-packed story in issue 6.5!
LEGO's popular line of Star Wars watches now comes in adult-size! Check out the new watches for fans both young and old at StarWarsShop...
Here is a sampling of some of the latest updates to appear on the official Star Wars: The Old Republic website from LucasArts and BioWare.
The bold, blue and beautiful Jedi General from The Clone Wars has a few things to say...
Car Enthusiast - Britain's favourite supermini is now available in a sportier guise.
Car Enthusiast - Project Kahn has released its restyled 600bhp version of the Range Rover Sport.
Car Enthusiast - Record levels of fines have been issued by a speed camera on the M6, causing outrage.
Car Enthusiast - Despite the recent bad publicity, Toyota sold more examples of the Prius in February than in any other year.
Car Enthusiast - German tuner, Brabus, has released a 230mph version of the Mercedes E-Class Coupé.
Car Enthusiast - An American driver was brought to a halt by a police vehicle when he failed to slow his Prius.
Car Enthusiast - Old conjurers trick recreated by BMW, only with a twist - grip.
Car Enthusiast - Taiwanese firm introduces Luxgen brand into the world of cars, and promises high technology and safety.
Car Enthusiast - Some Toyota owners are reporting the same problems after their recalled cars were fixed.
Car Enthusiast - February cars sales show more growth, but what effect will the end of scrappage have?
Car Enthusiast - Petrol-electric hybrid GT3 R racecar has its first outing in Geneva.
Car Enthusiast - New Porsche Cayenne revealed alongside hybrid model.
Car Enthusiast - Hyundai shows its next generation of family cars will be far from dull with the i-flow.
Car Enthusiast - Kia has recalled its brand new Venga after a problem with the seatbelt is identified.
Car Enthusiast - A council has ordered wardens to fine drivers that leave their engines running while stationary.
Car Enthusiast - Gorgeous celebratory concept car from Pininfarina hints at Alfa's next generation Spider.
Car Enthusiast - New Qashqai fighting ASX crossover revealed by Mitsubishi.
Car Enthusiast - Mercedes adds some spark to a diesel powertrain with its new E 300 BlueTEC Hybrid.
Car Enthusiast - Mercedes-Benz 'research' vehicle exhibits new style and future technology.
Car Enthusiast - Volkswagen unveils its all-new Touareg SUV and there will be a hybrid version.
Car Enthusiast - Vauxhall says its Geneva star, the Flextreme GT/E, takes electric car performance to the next level.
Car Enthusiast - An extra strong Polo in Geneva, with obvious heritage.
Car Enthusiast - Citroen's star of Geneva is the Survolt concept electric sports car.
Car Enthusiast - Mansory butchers the Rolls-Royce Ghost with its 'breathtaking individualisation'.
Car Enthusiast - Shooting brake Bentley based on Continental GTC adds practicality and beauty.
Car Enthusiast - Nissan's simpler supermini revealed at the Geneva Motor Show.
Car Enthusiast - Radical genre-bursting Juke revealed in production form in Switzerland.
Car Enthusiast - Swiss-Spanish name revived with a re-skinned supercharged Audi R8 boasting a breathtaking price.
Car Enthusiast - Audi reveals an electric version of the new A1 city car.
Car Enthusiast - Audi's flagship saloon gets cleaner hybrid power.