British Court Denies Cancer Drug Plea

A court has rejected a British woman's plea for the country's health service to provide her with the breast cancer drug Herceptin.

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Blackburn Beats Manchester United 4-3

David Bentley scored three goals, helping Blackburn Rovers and American goalkeeper Brad Friedel defeat Manchester United 4-3 Wednesday in England's Premier League.

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The Government's Digital Economy Bill could be in breach of EU laws, according to an internet law expert. Professor Lilian Edwards has also warned that the Bill could make it impossible to operate a free wireless network legally.

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Tony Blair was told by his government's most senior legal adviser that an invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein would be a serious breach of international law and the UN charter.

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Social media could transform the NHS and other public services in the same way that file-sharing changed the music industry, a conference has heard.

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This week the parliamentary science and technology committee looked into the the funding of homeopathy on the NHS and the evidence behind the decision of the MHRA, which regulates medicines, to allow homeopathy sugar pill labels to make medical claims without evidence of efficacy …

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The UK bookshop chain Borders was placed in administration today, raising doubts over 1,150 jobs. The firm, which has 45 branded Borders and Books Etc stores across the UK, has come under severe pressure from internet competition during the past year.

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A businessman gave up his career to live on no money for a year after becoming disillusioned with consumerism. Mark Boyle said giving up his job, possessions and money to live the life of a pauper in a rusty old caravan was the best decision he has ever made.

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Police officers are still refusing to take complaints of rape seriously if the victims come from "the wrong part of town", if they have been drinking or if they have made previous allegations, according to a report by Sara Payne, the national victims' champion.

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A soldier has apologised after crashing an eight-tonne tank into a garden fence during a driving lesson.

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The claim that computer games consoles can improve pupils' maths ability has been dismissed by an Edinburgh University brain scientist.

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The UK received intelligence days before invading Iraq that Saddam Hussein may not have been able use chemical weapons, an adviser has said. Foreign Office official Sir William Ehrman told the war inquiry that a report suggested that such weapons may have been "disassembled".

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Every school pupil in England is to be taught that domestic violence is unacceptable, as part of a new government strategy.

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Mobile operators are unable to comply with proposed anti-copyright theft legislation that requires them to identify unlawful file-sharers, the head of an industry body has said.

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The BBC has today said it has "no intention" of charging for online news, in a declaration that is unlikely to please James Murdoch and his father Rupert as they prepare to start charging for News Corporation content on the internet.

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UK recording artist, and vocal anti-file-sharing critic, remarks that she's fine with people selling bootleg copies of her CDs rather than share it for free with others since the person selling it is at least placing "some kind of value on my music."

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More than 1,000 children under the age of 10 were listed as witnesses in courts in England and Wales last year, BBC News has learned.

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Police officers are now routinely arresting people in order to add their DNA sample to the national police database, an inquiry will allege tomorrow.

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In a desperate attempt to secure its electoral base, the government is shamefully wooing religious extremists

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A British sailing woman stranded in a storm off the Turkish coast abandoned ship and swam 75 metres to the shore carrying a milk crate containing her nine puppies on her head.

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A British couple said they decided to give their baby the same name as the unusual place of her birth -- Kia.

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The average British woman "hosts" 515 chemicals on her body every day, according to a new study.

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was trying to think of something coherent to say about the Digital Economy Bill published this week, but I'm too damned angry right now.

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The worldwide success of the album, released on November 23, is the latest milestone for the Scottish church worker who came second in the contest but became an internet star for her performance of I Dreamed a Dream from Les Misérables

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Prof Hayes is the co-author of the book The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education, which suggested that pushing pupils to talk about their feelings created a culture of dependence among children

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Six MPs and peers are facing criminal charges of fraud following investigations by Scotland Yard into the abuse of the parliamentary expenses system, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

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Ordnance Survey map data will be freely available online to everybody from 2010, the Government has announced.

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