When he was first arrested he indicated to detectives that he had murdered five or six women in total. He held up one hand with his fingers outstretched and put up a finger on another when asked about killings he had carried out.

As the UK chairs today’s UN security council briefing on the violence in Western Sahara, for civilians on the ground that violence may be continuing.

European shares were seen opening higher on Thursday, tracking gains in Asia after better-than-expected Chinese economic data supported commodity prices and Wall Street rebounded overnight.

It’s James Bond, with bureaucracy and cramped office space. The first-ever official history of MI6 reveals that Britain’s foreign spy agency debated assassinating Nazi leaders, landed a spy wearing a wetsuit over his tux at a casino by the...

Four members of a child prostitution ring face jail today for trying to sell the virginity of young girls to wealthy Arab businessmen for up to £150,000.

Today, for the first time, kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch reveals the horror of her ordeal in full, from the moment she was snatched from the street as a ten-year-old. In her compelling autobiography - serialised exclusively in the Daily Mail from...

Prime Minister David Cameron’s media chief was under renewed pressure Monday after Scotland Yard said they could reopen their probe into a phone hacking scandal if new evidence surfaced. The use of phone-hacking by the News of the World tabloid...

More than two dozen children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are among the hundreds of victims of a recent wave of rapes in the nation’s conflict-torn east, the United Nations said. All but one of the 28 confirmed child victims were...

Police have said a number of “potential victims of human trafficking” have been rescued in raids on suspected brothels in Belfast. The raids were part of a UK-wide operation called Operation Apsis. Police said its objective was “to...

Pakistan’s Taliban on Friday threatened to launch attacks in the United States and Europe “very soon” and dismissed a move by Washington to add the group to its terrorism blacklist. The United States on Wednesday said it had added...