SOCIETY

American diver lost consciousness and died after surfacing from 72-metre record dive.

Media reaction to the assault on a 16-year-old girl, and the rapists' pathetic punishment, has already changed millions of attitudes for the better.

Harry going with wounded serviceman and women to Antarctic.

Scientists find volcano a kilometre beneath the ice in Marie Byrd Land.

A tornado that tore across the Midwest in the US on 17 November has killed six people while 40 are reportedly injured.

Boeing jet belonging to Tatarstan Airlines bursts into ball of fire on landing at Kazan.

Libya's deputy intelligence chief Mustafa Noah abducted from Tripoli Airport after returning from Turkey.

In areas around Naples cancer rates have risen by more than 50% over two decades.

A Boeing 737 passenger aircraft has crashed in central Russia killing at least 44 passengers and crew.

Nigerian troops kill 29 Boko Haram militants as part of targeted two-day raid.

Experts warn of 'grave danger' posed by rise in drug-resistant bacteria.

The Nobel-prize winning novelist Doris Lessing has died. Her publisher HarperCollins said she died peacefully on Sunday.

Attack in China's northwest Xinjiang province leaves 11 dead and two injured.

Former chairman of Co-op Bank Paul Flowers is 'seeking help' after video shows him handing over money to buy hard drugs.

Protesters rally against far-right NDP in eastern German village that houses hundreds of asylum-seekers.

Downing Street rejects call from health expert to lower age of consent to 15.

Dramatic CCTV footage shows the horrific accident unfold.

Previously unknown leftist group Militant People's Revolutionary Forces claims responsibility for Golden Dawn shootings.

Seven men quizzed on suspicion of murder after body found in garden well in suburban Surrey.

Company introduces device to combat thriving trade in stolen marble and granite headstones.

All 35 passengers on US Airways flight walk off plane after blind man and dog denied travel.

Adherents of the religious sect Scientology call it their Super Power Building, a sprawling $80m building on Florida's Gulf Coast.

Corrupt officers led investigators to beauty spot where 22 bodies were buried, some showing signs of torture.

New five-year jail term to be introduced following Mid-Staffordshire NHS scandal.

Arctic blast set to bring freezing temperatures and six inches of snow to the UK next week.

Police have arrested seven people following the discovery of a body in a well by gardeners at the grounds of a private house in Audley Drive, Surrey.

Gunmen open fire on Shia Muslim procession in latest sectarian violence in Pakistan.

Police are investigating the death of a man found at the bottom of a well in the front garden of a private house on Audley Drive, Warlingham, Surrey.

More than 31 people were killed and at least 400 wounded in street protests after militiamen fired on demonstrators.