WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains in custody tonight after Swedish prosecutors appealed against a decision to grant him bail.

A man in the US has changed his name to Captain Awesome.

A teenage American girl who vanished a year ago and was found hidden in a room in a man's home in Connecticut assumed a new identity that made her part of his family, authorities said today, as they investigated whether he had inappropriate relationships with her and other girls.

A Northern soldier killed in Afghanistan was totally committed to his job, mourners today heard.

A mortar barrage killed nine Iraqi civilians and wounded 40 in southern Baghdad today, police said.

WHEN the remains of missing diver Billy O’Connor were brought ashore on Saturday, the 150 people who had gathered on Kilmore Quay applauded. The hero had finally returned home.

Twenty England fans were in custody today after a second night of rioting on the Algarve in Portugal.

Captain Cook - revered by many as the man who ‘‘discovered’’ Australia - may be muscled off a Sydney municipality’s logo by a dolphin because he is deemed dated and offensive to Aborigines.