In our report below we mistakenly said that the leopard seal can grow to a length of 7 metres. Most authorities agree that the female, which is longer than the male, can reach 3.6 or 3.7 metres. ----- ...

Robert Napper, who has schizophrenia and a history of violent attacks on young women, today pleaded guilty to killing Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common 16 years ago. In Court One of the Old Bailey, ...

The Times published a reader's letter earlier this year. It read: "Sir – is it not bizarre that MI5 and MI6, otherwise known as the secret services, currently stand accused of being – er – secretive?" ...

Three Asian gang members were jailed for life yesterday for the "savage and barbaric" racially motivated murder of a schoolboy in Glasgow who had been singled out because he was white. Kriss Donald, ...

Police investigating the deaths of 19 Chinese workers who drowned when they were trapped by a rampaging night tide while picking cockles in Morecambe Bay, Lancashire, were last night hunting the ...

The British artist Banksy has been criticised by officials in California for the "frivolous abuse" of an elephant which he had painted to look like pink wallpaper. The elephant, Tai, was the main ...

The protracted and often bitter paternity dispute between Liz Hurley and her former boyfriend Steve Bing finally came to an end yesterday when DNA testing confirmed he was the father of Ms Hurley's ...

Twins separated at birth and adopted by separate parents later married each other without realising they were brother and sister. The siblings were recently granted an annulment in the high court's ...

The mysterious disappearance of the 1980s rock star Stuart Adamson has been solved: his body has been discovered in a Hawaii hotel room. The lead singer of the melancholy 1980s rockers Big Country has ...

Ghost-hunters will tonight toast a bricklayer who made the lethal error of walking repeatedly through his local churchyard in the dark wearing the 19th century garb ...

Analysis of 2.6 million tweets shows Twitter is adept at correcting misinformation - particularly if the claim is that a tiger is on the loose in Primrose Hill Your IP address will be logged ...

This list is excerpted from a much longer directory at Lefthandersday.com. Artists Leonardo Da Vinci Paul Klee Michelangelo Buonaroti Henri de Toulouse Lautrec Peter Paul Rubens Actors Amitabh & ...