A campaigner has been given the go-ahead to bring a High Court challenge against the British Government over gender-neutral passports.

A British imam voiced support for Islamic State and told children at his mosque that martyrdom was the "supreme success" and better than anything they would achieve at school or college, a court in England heard.

A chemistry teacher in the UK who sent a schoolgirl indecent photographs of himself with his private parts covered by emojis has been jailed for 15 months.

The owner of a boat on which two fishermen died of carbon monoxide poisoning has been jailed for 15 months.

Charlie Gard's parents are considering their next steps ahead of the latest High Court hearing in a five-month legal battle over whether the terminally-ill baby should be treated by a specialist in America

A father in the UK who fought a long-running legal battle over taking his child on a term-time holiday was today found guilty over the unauthorised trip.

The UK's highest court is to rule on a legal battle for women from Northern Ireland to receive free abortions on the NHS in England.

A couple who staged a "cynical charade" on a bus to cover up their baby's torture and death at home have been jailed for 11 years.

A 95-year-old man who bludgeoned his wife of 65 years with a lump hammer in an attempted mercy killing has been spared jail.

A vagrant is facing life behind bars in the UK for snatching a woman under a motorway bridge, then killing her during a violent sex attack.

A father has been found guilty of murdering his deformed baby after both parents attempted to shift the blame for his death on to a young autistic child.

The UK's Crown Prosecution Service has said it is "considering options" in the case of a man who was spared jail after he admitted beating his wife.

A former BBC employee carried out a "persistent, repeated and unwanted sexual harassment" of a woman while he worked for the company more than 30 years ago, a British court has been told.

Children’s author Helen Bailey was plied with sedatives and "probably suffocated" by her partner before being dumped in a cesspit below her home, a court has heard.

The UK's highest court is hearing a second day of argument in the historic Brexit legal challenge.

Women and girls in need of abortion services in the North are being treated as "second-class citizens", the UK's highest court has heard.

A judge who called a racist thug a "bit of a c***" after he launched a foul-mouthed tirade at her has been branded a "hero" and a role model for children.

A judge has demanded an urgent review into “what went wrong” after prosecutors dropped the case against medics accused over the death of a woman at an abortion clinic four years ago.

A Jaguar Land Rover manager left two young sisters paralysed after smashing his company 4x4 into their father's car during a road rage chase in England, a court heard.

An estranged husband decapitated his wife of 30 years, smashed up her head and flushed it down the toilet in an act of “pure hatred”, a court heard.

The heir to a multimillion-pound nightclub empire has been jailed for 13 and a half years for stabbing his father to death after years of being treated as his “whipping boy”.

A judge has branded a mother who went on the run with her three-year-old son after becoming embroiled in a bitter custody battle with the boy’s father “utterly irresponsible”.

The mother at the centre of a custody battle in England who is on the run with her three-year-old son has broken her silence, saying she left with him because she felt “trapped”.

Ten seemingly respectable people - including six women - subjected young children to sexual and physical abuse over more than a decade, prosecutors have told a British court.

The death of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko gives rise to issues of “utmost gravity” including allegations of state-sponsored assassination, the chair of a public inquiry has said.

Massimo Cellino’s long-term future as Leeds owner has been cast into doubt despite the Italian businessman insisting he will accept disqualification by the Football League and then return in April.

Leeds owner Massimo Cellino has had his appeal against being disqualified as a director dismissed, the Football League has announced.

An “emotionally manipulative” father killed his 12-week-old daughter in “a momentary loss of self-control” after shaking her, a court has heard.

The wife of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has told a judge of her “extremely distressing” discovery that her father and brother were “systematically defrauding” her husband.

Cork and Down have topped the Michelin choices for best pub grub in Ireland.

Counties Cork and Down have both secured six listings in the 2015 Michelin ‘Eating Out In Pubs’ guide.

A News of the World reporter was told by a “tyrant” boss to write a story about one of James Bulger’s killers from an anonymous tipster, a court heard today.

A young woman who tried to smuggle cash in her knickers on a flight to Turkey beamed as she walked free from court after she was dramatically cleared of funding jihadists in Syria.

Convicted paedophile Rolf Harris will not stand trial over allegations that he downloaded sexual images of children, prosecutors said today.

Veteran entertainer Rolf Harris has admitted that he admired a 13-year-old friend of his daughter sexually while on holiday.

The Football Association will not appeal against Nicolas Anelka’s five-match suspension over his “quenelle” gesture, having decided there is little prospect of the ban being extended.

Former News International boss Rebekah Brooks began giving evidence in her defence at the phone hacking trial today after she was formally cleared of a charge linked to a picture of Prince William dressed as a bikini-clad Bond girl at a Sandhurst party.

Tony Blair offered to act as an “unofficial adviser” to newspaper editor Rebekah Brooks when she sought his guidance at the height of the phone-hacking crisis at the News of the World, prosecutors have told the Old Bailey.

Actor Jude Law tried to manipulate a News of the World story about his girlfriend Sienna Miller’s affair with Bond star Daniel Craig to make it appear that “she cheated first”, it was claimed.

Coronation Street star Anne Kirkbride has told a jury that her on-screen husband William Roache was “always a perfect gentleman” around her.

The sexual harassment scandal engulfing Britain’s Liberal Democrats has moved a step closer to the law courts after the peer at the centre of the claims instructed senior counsel to advise him.