A Surrey man jailed for killing his wife amid fears he fed her to the pigs on their farm loses an appeal against his murder conviction.

Kenneth Branagh receives rave reviews for Ivanov, the first play in the Donmar Warehouse's year-long West End season.

The Indian media calls for tougher laws and strategies to combat rising attacks by suspected militants in the country.

A woman admits to a four-year-long campaign of harassment aimed at Little Britain star David Walliams.

A man who murdered a former oil worker and then performed the last rites on his dead body is sentenced.

The mother of a woman who died after having an abortion pays tribute to her beautiful precious daughter.

People in many areas of the country struggle to get a newspaper delivered. It's the burning issue in the world of the newsagent - where did all the newspaper boys and girls go?

A man who murdered a former oil worker in the capital and then performed the last rites pleads guilty.

BBC News arts correspondent David Sillito describes the scenes as singer Amy Winehouse arrived for police questioning.

BBC newsreader Lucy Owen and her husband Rhodri introduce their newborn son Gabriel to TV viewers.

The age of electronic communication has allowed a hammer blow against privacy, Clive James writes, but even the last bastion, the humble letter, is under threat.

A man is jailed for life for shooting dead a pregnant woman in an "execution" after a row between neighbours.

A woman is jailed for trying to pass heroin to her prisoner boyfriend in his gym shorts and through a kiss.

A man who stabbed his wife 107 times when she said she wanted to leave him is jailed for life.

Three men and a woman who admitted supplying cocaine are sent to prison for a total of 14 years.

Nicolas Sarkozy is the most pro-US president in generations, but French opinion is divided on what this means, writes Hugh Schofield.

Jurors begin a second day of deliberations in the case of a teenage girl accused of murdering her sister.

The death of Nigel Dempster robs the media of the doyen of the gossip column. But in this increasingly celebrity-obsessed world has the "gossip-isation" of the news rendered the columns redundant?

A woman who suffocated her husband and waited for him to die "like an executioner" is jailed for life.

BBC Northern Ireland's Mike McKimm looks back at the trial of Father Jeremiah McGrath, who has been jailed for arranging and facilitating the rape of a young girl.