A 23-month-old girl was beaten to death by the boyfriend of her mother who had just flown out to New York to celebrate her 21st birthday, a court has heard.

A 6-year-old girl who was abducted by her father and taken to Pakistan three years ago was reunited with her mother last night.

A six-year-old girl is on her way home more than three years after she was abducted by her father and taken to Pakistan, sources said today.

Stars of Coronation Street gathered yesterday to pay their respects to Bill Tarmey, who played the soap’s Jack Duckworth for three decades.

A PAIR of disaffected teenagers inspired by the Columbine school massacre planned a copycat killing spree in Britain, a court heard yesterday.

A father and son in England who could not live without each other took their own lives together, an inquest found today.

Bosses at a company in France were today released without incident after being held hostage overnight in a dispute over plans to close their factory.

Roma midfielder Simone Perrotta goes into tonight’s Champions League match against Manchester United hoping his team can duplicate the success achieved by Italy in Germany last summer.

Street serial killer Richard Hillman drives his family headlong into a canal but fans of hit soap Coronation Street were today left guessing whether the dramatic scenes spelled the end for the soap’s “Tricky Dicky”.

Six people have been injured, including one critically, following a gas explosion at a block of flats in Greater Manchester, police said today.

The man accused of stabbing and robbing Coronation Street actor John Savident has been further remanded in custody.