BOY George let pal use his home while bailed over alleged rape of 12-year-old lad in loo

A DAD is in a serious condition after being shot by a policeman during a domestic row

The UN says its main aid agency in Gaza will resume operations there after receiving safety assurances from Israel.

Sierra Leone refugee fights for long-lost daughter

Video games are poised to "eclipse" all other forms of entertainment, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is told.

UK bank Lloyds TSB agrees to pay a $350m penalty to US authorities after admitted violating US sanctions.

Tony Blair says the situation in Gaza offers "no justification" for the radicalisation of British Muslims.

PresidentElect Barack Obama named two intelligence outsiders on Friday as his top spymasters to play a leading role in restoring what he has called a tarnished US image abroad.

A teacher who starred in pornographic films outside school hours has been found guilty of unacceptable professional misconduct.

A woman who was being sentenced by a judge dropped her trousers and showed him her bottom in court.

A deal to restore flows of Russian natural gas via Ukraine is held up despite the arrival of EU monitors in the region.

A 140yearold lobster is to be reunited with the ocean after being liberated from a New York seafood restaurant.

A 140yearold lobster is to be reunited with the ocean after being liberated from a New York seafood restaurant.

The US economy may be in crisis but come Sunday night in Los Angeles the stars will come out to celebrate in lavish style.

PRESIDENT-elect Barack Obama vowed to spend his way out of trouble like Roosevelt

CRISTIANO Ronaldo crashes his £200,000 Ferrari just TWO DAYS after collecting the keys

Rescuers search mountainous areas of central Costa Rica after a powerful earthquake that left at least four people dead.

MAURITIUS is twinned with STAINES — the drab commuter town made famous by Ali G

Glamour model voted out of the Celebrity Big Brother house.

Nelson Mandela is not amused at speculation he is cooling toward his ANC party which has undergone an angry split just months before parliamentary elections.