A man who stabbed his accountant wife to death a day after he discovered she was having an affair with a joiner has been jailed for a minimum of 17 years by a British court today.

The partner of a cheating joiner kicked him out of their house just hours after he told a murder trial jury he had planned to set up home with his lover.

A wanted man suspected of murdering his ex-girlfriend in the UK has handed himself in to armed officers after nearly a month on the run.

Trained negotiators in the UK were today continuing to talk to a man inside a house who is thought to be armed.

A man has appeared in court charged with raping a teenage girl he allegedly met through text messaging.