Arran Coghlan was last night released from prison after being acquitted of the murder of Stephen Akinyemi at his Alderley Edge home earlier this year. [more]
Snooker Star Alex Higgins will be laid to rest in Belfast on Monday [more]
Sir Alex Ferguson has defended Manchester United owners the Glazer family. [more]
A disaster such as the Potters Bar train crash of 2002 could happen again, the coroner overseeing the inquest believes. [more]
Boris Johnson's flagship cycle hire scheme for London is being launched by the Mayor with more than 11,000 people already signed up. [more]
The RAF is expected to ground its fleet of Tornados because of Treasury demands that the Ministry of Defence must cut its spending by between 10% and 20%. [more]
Lord Prescott has told the Iraq Inquiry he had doubts about intelligence on Saddam Hussein's weapons programmes before the 2003 invasion. [more]
A Welsh schoolgirl has died in a rafting accident in southern Turkey, the Foreign Office has confirmed. [more]
The retail sector has seen a boom in employment with over 22,000 more people taking up jobs than a year ago. [more]
A tycoon who fled Britain to escape a fraud trial has indicated he will return after a judge made him an offer of bail. [more]
Jennifer Lopez is favourite to join American Idol after judge Ellen DeGeneres quit the hit US show. [more]
Walt Disney has unveiled a £423m deal to sell Miramax Films - the movie studio behind hits such as Pulp Fiction and Shakespeare In Love. [more]
Liam Gallagher has told Sky News his new band's album will be the "the best record you'll hear for the next 50 years". [more]
British bands came out on top at this year's Kerrang! awards with Bullet For My Valentine scooping two trophies. [more]
Sebastian Vettel topped the second round of practice for the Hungarian Grand Prix after a strong display from the Red Bull team. [more]
Steve Finn and James Anderson tore through Pakistan's top order to put England in a commanding position at tea on the second day of the first test at Trent Bridge. [more]
England goalkeeper David James will play in the Championship next season after signing for Bristol City. [more]
Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp is adamant that the club did nothing to unsettle West Ham United star Scott Parker. [more]
A family hid the mummified body of a relative in his bedroom for 30 years to keep his title of Tokyo's oldest man. [more]
In the city that never sleeps there is one increasingly busy nocturnal resident that New York wants to evict. [more]
A set of negatives bought in a car boot sale for just under £30 have been valued at around £130m after being identified as the work of photographer Ansel Adams. [more]
A 56-year-old woman has become the slowest person to swim the English Channel after being pushed more than 40 miles off course by the tides. [more]
A tomcat called Timothy has stunned animal carers by turning up more than 800 miles from his home - a year after he went missing. [more]
A woman apparently had to pull acupuncture needles out of her back and call emergency services after staff forgot about her and closed the clinic with her still inside. [more]
The new owners of Harrods got a taste of London life when they returned to their luxury cars to find they had been clamped. [more]