Trading standards seize earrings containing more than the maximum permitted level of nickel.

Fitter, happier, always take a bag to the shop, never talk too loudly on the train... too few people change their ways, but can technology make us behave, asks Clive James.

Americans wrestle with the question of whether a teen who stabbed her mother to death should be treated as an adult or child.

The BBC's Laura Trevelyan looks at how two once respected detectives ended up convicted of murder over Mafia killings.

A pet golden eagle who went missing leaving her human family distraught is found and reunited with her owner.

The owner of a golden eagle which flew away and undid her radio trackers appeals for public help in finding her.

The government's anti-terrorism plans, which will be discussed by the Lords this week, include a number of proposals to monitor the behaviour of suspected terrorists. But how would they work in practice?

Trials of satellite tracking of offenders will allow their location to be pinpointed to within two metres.

Satellite tracking technology could potentially cut prison overcrowding, and expensive accommodation.

Some asylum seekers in Scotland are to be electronically tagged in a new scheme being piloted by the government in the coming months.

People around Cambridgeshire report sightings of a vulture thought to be a pet or zoo escapee.

The Home Office plans to introduce satellite monitoring of offenders in England and Wales, the BBC learns.

Archaeologists find the remains of a 4th Century castrated cross-dresser in North Yorkshire, believed to be a member of a cult of priests.

Julie Goodyear, better known as Bet Lynch, makes her Coronation Street return after seven years, dressed in a trademark outfit.