Five employees of The Sun, a serving Surrey Police officer, a serving member of the armed forces and a Ministry of Defence employee were arrested today over allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials.

Five employees of The Sun, a serving Surrey Police officer, a serving member of the armed forces and a Ministry of Defence employee were arrested in Britain today over allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials.

The pastor who planned an “International Burn-a-Koran Day” is still hopeful of meeting the imam overseeing plans for a controversial Islamic centre in New York for talks.

The pastor who planned an “International Burn-a-Koran Day” will instead fly to New York to try to meet the imam overseeing plans for a controversial Islamic centre near Ground Zero.

A rogue Afghan soldier was being hunted today after he killed three British troops and wounded another four.

The weekend's football schedule has been decimated in the UK as the freezing weather conditions tighten their grip.

Sheffield Wednesday have appointed Lee Strafford and Nick Parker as new board members.

British forces were tonight securing parts of Iraq’s second city, Basra, after pushing their way into its centre for the first time.

Two Kenyan truck drivers taken hostage by a gang of Saddam Hussein’s brutal militiamen were freed by British soldiers, it emerged today.

AROUND 2,000 civilians were shot at by Iraqi paramilitary forces as they tried to flee the southern city of Basra, British army officers claimed yesterday.

Around 2,000 civilians were shot at by Iraqi paramilitary forces as they tried to flee the southern city of Basra, British army officers claimed today.