Plane crashes in Madrid - deaths feared

Passenger jet heading for the Canary Islands overshoots runway on take-off from Madrid airport with at least two deaths reported

Website breaks taboo to reveal salaries

Pay of thousands of employees and workers' reviews of top companies are on display at site launched two months ago in US

Thailand threatens Glitter with detention

Disgraced singer refused to board flight to UK, but Thailand doesn't want him and threatens convicted paedophile with detention

Terror cell chief jailed for 12 years

Former fast-food worker from Bradford was possibly plotting to attack Royals in campaign to 'wipe out non-believers'

London gets centre for 2012 champions

A cycling centre that has been developed to produce champions for the 2012 Olympics has opened in London

BBC charity funded jihadists

Children in Need charity donated £20,000 to an organisation that funded the propaganda activities of the July 7 bombers

Accident victim reborn as artist

Ken Walters has created his own software and has been contracted by EA games, the computer company

Muslim prisoners seek sanctuary from attacks

Chief Inspector of Prisons finds that Muslims at a top-security jail avoid violence by entering the segregation unit

Road sign ‘insults pensioners’

Age Concern and Help the Aged said that the hunched figure with a walking stick should be replaced with a new image

Georgian national squad spirited to Swansea

Whatever the result of the friendly football match in Swansea, just putting out a team is a big victory for the visitors

Alexander Technique effective for back pain

Combining exercise with practising the Alexander Technique could significantly reduce back pain and improve mobility

People: Paris Hilton; Sir Jimmy Savile

Paris Hilton is moving to London to seek a best friend who is 'hot, can keep up with me and won’t be a backstabber'

Now rivals see a clean pair of wheels

British Cycling’s medal spree is no flash in the pan, but the legacy of a development programme that began 16 years ago

News in Brief: Airport staff walkouts

Airport staff walkouts | Terror plotters jailed | Death crash verdict | Knife leniency ‘over’ | The £10,000 Pimple

Computer ‘villains’ are just savvy kids

The rapidly increasing speed of broadband connections has allowed consumers to share and copy vast media files

Correction

How Team GB turned hard work into gold

With his space-age helmet, racing on razor-sharp wheels at nearly 40 miles an hour, all Chris Hoy is missing is the cape

New golden girl will be forever tarnished

Ohuruogu will be haunted by the three missed drugs tests that resulted in her being banned from the sport for a year

New sex offender laws

Home Office reveals child sex offenders to face tighter travel restrictions but Gary Glitter attempts to stay in Thailand

Latest British casualty named

Corporal Barry Dempsey, 29, who was killed yesterday in Afghanistan, has been described as a 'dedicated family man'