Rape victims in the UK will be spared the ordeal of giving evidence in court under reforms being brought forward by the British Government.

A sea-crusted wing part washed up on an island in the western Indian Ocean may be the first trace of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 since it vanished nearly a year and a half ago, and a tragic but finally solid clue to one of aviation’s most perplexing and expensive mysteries.

Culling of thousands of ducks at a farm operated by the UK’s largest producer of duck products is expected to begin today after a bird flu outbreak.

Malaysia yesterday said it would share with Australia the cost of the latest effort to uncover signs of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, in the hope of unlocking modern aviation’s greatest mystery.

A sprawling undersea search area for a missing Malaysian airliner in the southern Indian Ocean could be extended further south based on new satellite analysis.

The search area for the missing Malaysian airliner in the southern Indian Ocean has been refined, based on the latest analysis.

The hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane will shift farther south of the most recent suspected crash site in a remote stretch of Indian Ocean.

Investigators with an Australian agency have concluded that the missing Malaysian jet is not within an area thought to be its most likely resting place after an unmanned submersible found no sign of the plane.

Search crews in the Indian Ocean have failed to pick up more of the faint underwater sounds that may have been from the missing Malaysian jetliner’s black boxes.

As planes spent a third day hunting for two large objects spotted by satellite in the southern Indian Ocean, Australian officials today said they were far from giving up on what remains the strongest lead in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Calculators are being banned from British primary school maths tests under new plans to improve basic arithmetic.

Jamie Oliver’s hit book 30 Minute Meals has gobbled up another new record after topping the charts for half a year.

The Australian government denied Singapore Airlines access to the lucrative route between Sydney and Los Angeles today, dismissing years of lobbying from Singapore.

Eritrea has agreed to accept a cargo of 52,000 Australian sheep stranded in the Middle East for almost three months, the two countries said today.

The Lions and their fans are being sniffed by dogs and X-rayed as they arrive in Australia as a precaution against foot-and-mouth.