Fugitive Tycoon Finally Faces The Music

Fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir is due in court today to finally face multi-million pound charges over the collapse of his Polly Peck business empire.

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Unemployment should be tackled by spending £250m on creating 200,000 jobs and placements for people out of work, Labour leadership hopeful Ed Balls has said.

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Fears of another fuel spill in the Gulf of Mexico following a fire on a second oil platform have been ruled out after the coatguard said there was no evidence of an oil sheen.

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Vivienne Westwood handbags worth thousands of pounds have been stolen in a smash-and-grab raid on a London store.

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An team of professionals held an urgent meeting about a severely disabled pensioner who repeatedly threatened to kill himself seven months before he went to Switzerland to die, it has emerged.

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Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has revealed his plans for the future and said he will work for free for charities specialising in education, Africa and the internet.

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The Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed to meet again every two weeks during initial Middle East peace talks that have been described as "productive".

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The parents of a Muslim teenager suspected to be the victim of an honour killing have been arrested on suspicion of her murder.

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The three Pakistan cricket players at the centre of spot-betting allegations have been talking to officials from their country. Here are the latest developments:

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Royal Bank of Scotland is cutting a further 3,500 British jobs in a move a major trade union has described as a "horror story".

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The career of racing driver Ben Collins as Top Gear's The Stig is likely to have skidded to a halt following his High Court battle with the BBC, sources are saying.

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An evening newspaper has come up with an ingenious way to beat a League One football club's ban on photographers.

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The 33 miners trapped 2,000ft underground in Chile will have to move more than 3,000 tons of rock to ensure their rescue is successful, experts have said.

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Robbie Williams is due in Blackpool tonight to switch on the lights that will stay on for the next 66 days.

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A fuel tanker carrying around nine million litres of diesel has run aground in the far north of Canada and is at risk of spilling its cargo into the Arctic.

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A man who met a woman on a dating website and then raped her 14-year-old daughter has been locked up indefinitely.

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The International Cricket Council has "provisionally suspended" the three accused Pakistan players - who will be interviewed by Scotland Yard in the morning.

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Hurricane Earl has been downgraded to a Category 3 storm - but is still barrelling towards the US East coast with dangerously strong winds.

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William Hague has defended his decision to make a deeply personal statement denying claims he had an improper relationship with a male aide.

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Four Greenpeace activists have been arrested after abandoning a protest aimed at disrupting drilling on the Stena Don oil rig in Baffin Bay, Greenland.

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Ten civilians have been killed in a Nato airstrike on vehicles carrying election workers in Afghanistan, according to the country's president, Hamid Karzai.

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House prices have fallen for a second month in a row - the first consecutive drop since February 2009, according to Nationwide.

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The BBC used to have a "massive bias to the left", the broadcaster's director general Mark Thompson has declared.

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Physics was the reason for the Big Bang, not God, according to scientist Stephen Hawking.

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