Country star turned pop sensation Taylor Swift returns to the top of Billboard's annual list of music money makers, a title she held in 2012 only to relinquish last year to Madonna.

MPs deserve a pay rise so they are not forced to "scramble around the place", union leader Bob Crow says.

An American woman who killed her three children in Edinburgh is found dead in a secure hospital in Nottinghamshire.

Jump racing's showpiece Cheltenham Festival starts on Tuesday with more than 230,000 people expected to attend the four-day meeting.

Werder Bremen midfielder Aaron Hunt owns up to a dive and convinces the referee in their game against Nuremberg to overturn his decision to award a penalty.

A great white shark has become the first of its species to be observed crossing from one side of the Atlantic Ocean into the other.

American writer George Saunders is named the first winner of the Folio Prize for his "darkly playful" short stories, Tenth of December.

An employment tribunal involving a school linked to an alleged Islamist takeover plot is adjourned to allow authorities time to investigate.