THE sudden death of any young person is a tragedy, with all that potential, all those years of experiences and enjoyments, wiped out.

He was a rarely seen veteran militant who learned Hebrew over years spent in Israeli prisons and who carefully studied his enemy.

Troops appear to have run across him in a battle, only to discover afterwards that a body in the rubble was the man Israel ...

A boy has been stabbed in the middle of the afternoon in south-east London. Metropolitan Police officers were called to the scene in Broadway, Bexleyheath, at 3.31pm on Thursday and found the boy, who ...

Researchers have found that the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago.

A County Durham cat has got a second chance, after a team of expert vets treated him for a rare and aggressive kind of cancer induced by injections. Five-year-old Ragdoll cat Yurtie was referred to ...

Yuill Kelso of Witton le Wear, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, became the oldest person to climb the mast of the Cutty Sark - only ...

A dangerous driver who crashed a stolen car into a police car in Middlesbrough in a desperate attempt to avoid arrest has been locked up.

A Hartlepool charity which provides support for homeless people has been vandalised in a suspected "break in". The staff of LilyAnne's Wellbeing café were "devastated" to find that someone had tried ...

Thomas Tuchel’s appointment as England’s new head coach has divided opinion and that is not strictly down to his credentials but largely because of his nationality. However, the German, who has vowed ...

Payne died after falling from the third-floor balcony of the CasaSur Hotel in the Palermo area of Buenos Aires.

Counterfest - Teesside's longest running tribute festival - is set to return to Stockton town centre for its 12th annual outing.