Hollywood actor Mel Gibson will not be charged over allegations that he pushed and verbally abused a female photographer in Australia.

What is said to be the most robust estimate yet finds there to be just over three trillion trees on Planet Earth.

French judges say they have dropped an investigation into claims that former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned.

A Cardiff man who is one of three from the city to have joined a jihadist group in Syria has died, the BBC is told.

A man says he fears having to tell friends and family he is HIV positive after he was among 780 patients whose details were leaked by a health clinic.

At least 100 schools in England are pressurising parents or demanding they donate money, potentially in breach of the law, research suggests.

The American actor Dean Jones, best known for starring in Disney's The Love Bug and That Darn Cat! dies at the age of 84.

Progressive music, the oft-maligned genre that had its heyday in the 1970s, is to be endorsed by the Official Charts Company.