National Headlines

An Afghan asylum seeker has been found guilty of abducting and raping a 12-year-old girl in Warwickshire.

Former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre has clashed in court with a lawyer, calling some of the allegations in a case against his newspaper group by a number of celebrities and Prince Harry "preposterous".

A teenage boy who murdered 12-year-old Birmingham schoolboy Leo Ross by stabbing him in the stomach in a random attack has been detained for a minimum of 13 years.

A drug dealer who rigged his house with booby-traps after being inspired by the Christmas classic Home Alone has been jailed for seven years.

An overwhelming majority of people think the King should encourage Andrew to give evidence, according to a YouGov poll for Sky News.

Lord Mandelson would have been subject to a "thorough" and "intimate" vetting process before he was appointed UK ambassador to the US, a former head of MI6 has said.

A man is being sought by police after a rape was reported on a university campus.

A turkey butcher who killed her girlfriend and cut her in half before burying her in a garden has been found guilty of murder.

A 23-year-old British woman who was shot dead by her father had argued with him about Donald Trump earlier that day, an inquest has heard.

The Scottish government has spent more than £766,000 of taxpayers' money in its long-running legal battle over the definition of a woman.