Thousands of students across the UK have been staging sit-ins, walk-outs and demonstrations to show their opposition to the increase in tuition fees.

A leading academic today called for prostitution to be decriminalised to protect women forced to work in the sex industry.

A strong earthquake shook Trinidad this afternoon, officials said.

A TEAM of Dutch and American surgeons claim they are ready to perform a face transplant, a procedure considered controversial by some medical ethicists.