General news

• Boys born from their grans' wombs

  02-12-2014 23:53
  
  Two women were able to give birth after womb transplants from their own mothers, it was reported tonight.
  
  Read more

• 22 year coma man's traveller funeral

  02-12-2014 23:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of mourners from the Gypsy and traveller community have attended a funeral for a man from Cardiff who died after 22 years in a coma.
  
  Read more

• Gaga reveals teenage rape ordeal

  02-12-2014 23:32
  
  Lady Gaga has said that she was raped as a teenager.
  
  Read more

• Ireland accuses British Army of torture during the Troubles

  02-12-2014 23:31
  
  The British and Irish governments will clash in the European Court of Human Rights over one of the Troubles’ most harrowing torture cases involving the degrading treatment of Irish prisoners at the hands of the British Army.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Leicester City 1-3 Liverpool

  02-12-2014 23:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Steven Gerrard marks his return to the Liverpool side by scoring as the Reds win at bottom club Leicester.
  
  Read more

• UKIP sex education policy confusion

  02-12-2014 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UKIP leader Nigel Farage is forced to clarify his remarks on sex education in schools after appearing to contradict party policy during a live debate.
  
  Read more

• Autumn Statement: Cameron WILL have to cut NHS spending, warns senior Tory

  02-12-2014 23:15
  
  A rising star of the Conservative right has been secretly recorded suggesting David Cameron may have to renege on his pledge to protect NHS spending if the Tories win next May’s general election.
  
  Read more

• Autumn Statement: Chancellor to extend Funding for Lending scheme to help small firms

  02-12-2014 23:15
  
  The Government’s Funding for Lending scheme, designed to help small businesses access bank credit, is to be extended for a further year, the Bank of England and the Treasury has said.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Head of auction house Christie's to step down amid record sales run

  02-12-2014 23:12
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Steven Murphy, the chief executive of Christie's, will step down at the end of this year, the London-based auction house said on Tuesday, following a record run of sales. Having joined Christie's in 2010, Murphy is credited with developing online auctions and growing the company's Asian client base, with offices in China and India. He will be replaced by Patricia Barbizet, who will continue in her role as chairman. ...
  
  Read more

• Sheeran and Angels put on a show

  02-12-2014 23:07
  
  Ed Sheeran found himself in heaven tonight as he performed at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in London with his friend Taylor Swift, surrounded by a host of model Angels.
  
  Read more

• Nadia Forde booted out of jungle

  02-12-2014 23:07
  
  Irish model Nadia Forde has become the second person to leave I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!
  
  Read more

• Manchester United 2-1 Stoke City

  02-12-2014 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester United's revival continues with a fourth straight win as they survive a late scare to beat Stoke 2-1.
  
  Read more

• Vain metrosexual men are more likely to attract women

  02-12-2014 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FORGET bulging biceps, guys – what women really want is a well-groomed man.
  
  Read more

• Leicester vs Liverpool match report: Steven Gerrard inspires impressive comeback win at the King Power Stadium

  02-12-2014 22:55
  Liverpool may want to re-think the contract offer made to Steven Gerrard after their captain bailed them out in a 3-1 comeback victory over Leicester like he has done so many times in the past.
  
  Read more

• Leicester City vs Liverpool match report: Steven Gerrard makes striking return to breathe life into the Reds

  02-12-2014 22:55
  There were no awkward questions for Brendan Rodgers tonight. The Liverpool manager picked his captain from the start and Steven Gerrard rewarded him with a vintage display and a goal.
  
  Read more

• Leicester City vs Liverpool match report: Steven Gerrard makes striking return to breathe life into Liverpool

  02-12-2014 22:55
  There were no awkward questions for Brendan Rodgers tonight. The Liverpool manager picked his captain from the start and Steven Gerrard rewarded him with a vintage display and a goal.
  
  Read more

• Bahamas plane crash: One dead and ten other passengers hospitalised

  02-12-2014 22:45
  
  A 77-year-old man US has died and 10 others, including a child, have been hospitalised after a small plane carrying 11 people crashed near the Bahamas on Tuesday.
  
  Read more

• Stones mourn saxophonist's death

  02-12-2014 22:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Rolling Stones say they're devastated over the death of Bobby Keys who played saxophone with them.
  
  Read more

• Enfield flashes flesh in charity ad

  02-12-2014 22:38
  
  Comedy legend Harry Enfield has bared almost all as he paraded down a gloomy British beach in a spoof advert for Save The Children.
  
  Read more

• Sister urges Syria man to come home

  02-12-2014 22:37
  
  The sister of a British jihadi fighting with Islamic State in Syria has urged him to return to the UK even if it means going to prison.
  
  Read more

• UK generals play down Taliban attacks

  02-12-2014 22:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Attacks by the Taliban in Afghanistan are not a sign it is making advances following the UK military withdrawal, the former head of the British army says.
  
  Read more

• New blow for Royal Mail as Ofcom rejects competition threats

  02-12-2014 22:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ROYAL Mail has been dealt a fresh blow after regulator Ofcom said it would not impose new conditions on the firm’s direct-delivery competitors.
  
  Read more

• More approval for garden bridge

  02-12-2014 22:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A proposed garden bridge over the River Thames moves a step closer after Westminster Council approves the plans.
  
  Read more

• Small businesses support extended

  02-12-2014 22:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A package to boost bank lending to small and medium-sized businesses has been announced ahead of Wednesday's Autumn Statement.
  
  Read more

• Hopsital refuse 102-year-old woman a bed and send her home at night

  02-12-2014 22:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A WOMAN aged 102 was sent home at night by staff at a hospital’s A&E department after doctors refused her a bed.
  
  Read more

• Ukip leader Nigel Farage clashes with audience members as he tries to engage with young voters

  02-12-2014 22:05
  
  Nigel Farage has been grilled by a panel of young people on the European Union, the state of British democracy, immigration and education.
  
  Read more

• Victoria’s Secret 2014 show report: Angels, extravagance and blinged-out bras

  02-12-2014 22:04
  
  Victoria’s Secret is not just any old lingerie label, with sales topping the $6 billion mark in 2013, it commands the kind of retail power that is not to be scoffed at.  
  
  Read more

• Monkeys 'see value for money'

  02-12-2014 22:00
  
  Monkeys are savvier than human consumers when it comes to getting value for money, research has shown.
  
  Read more

• Biomedical research centre will make Manchester an economic 'northern powerhouse' to rival London

  02-12-2014 21:55
  
  Manchester will be home to a multimillion-pound science institution, George Osborne will confirm, as he prepares to flesh out plans for a “northern powerhouse” to rival London’s economy.
  
  Read more

• Bid to reopen NI 'torture' case

  02-12-2014 21:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Irish government will ask the European Court to revise its judgement in the case of a group of men who said they were tortured in Northern Ireland.
  
  Read more

• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Danny Alexander’s tower of jargon is a wobbly construct

  02-12-2014 21:44
  
  Bizarrely, Danny Alexander began his big launch by announcing that “infrastructure” is “a long word” that “doesn’t necessarily mean a lot to a lot of people”. He then read out a dictionary definition, like a fifth former stumped for a way to start an essay. It might have been better to translate the jargon littering today’s euphoric event.
  
  Read more

• Osborne’s £10billion boost for small businesses will bolster the economy

  02-12-2014 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  GEORGE Osborne will tomorrow seek to accelerate Britain's economic recovery with measures designed to give small and medium-sized firms a £10billion investment boost over the next three years.
  
  Read more

• Twitter reveals new tools to deal with abuse and harassment after criticism

  02-12-2014 21:28
  
  Twitter has unveiled new tools to crack down on abuse and harassment on the service, including a new way of reporting problem tweets and internal ways to deal with them more quickly.
  
  Read more

• VIDEO: 'I was terrified to be around food'

  02-12-2014 21:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Early intervention in anorexia cases is key to prevent irreparable health issues, one sufferer has warned.
  
  Read more

• Bobby Keys dies: Rolling Stones saxophonist dies aged 70

  02-12-2014 21:10
  
  Bobby Keys, the saxophonist celebrated for his solo on the Rolling Stones track Brown Sugar, has died at his home in Franklin, Tennessee. He was 70 years old.
  
  Read more

• Tiger Woods is back – but will it go with a swing?

  02-12-2014 21:05
  
  The four horsemen of the Tiger Woods apocalypse ride into view this week, presenting for scrutiny and judgment the latest and perhaps final phase of a great career.
  
  Read more

• Actor's wife slams Claridge's for telling her to 'cover up' while breastfeeding

  02-12-2014 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE wife of a British actor has told of the "humiliating" moment she was asked to cover herself with a napkin while breastfeeding at luxury London hotel Claridge's.
  
  Read more

• As its economy collapses, Russia needs some help from its friends...

  02-12-2014 20:57
  
  The crash of the oil price is a bonus to most of the world and especially to the largest oil importer, China. But for oil producers in general, and for one country in particular, it is a disaster. That country is Russia. Oil matters to Russia, in some ways even more than it does to the Middle East oil producers, the largest of which is Saudi Arabia. That is partly because if you add oil and gas together, Russia is the No 1 producer, but it is also because it has a much larger population to suppo
  
  Read more

• Palestinian statehood: French national assembly votes overwhelmingly to ask government to recognise Palestine

  02-12-2014 20:54
  
  The lower house of the French parliament has voted overwhelmingly to “invite” Paris to recognise Palestine as an independent state.
  
  Read more

• Should we get rid of the penny and 2p coins?

  02-12-2014 20:46
  
  The other day I noticed something odd. Some change I had lying around stuck to the cover of my iPad. That’s because the cover has some sort of magnet in it, and nowadays our coins are just painted steel. The older coins didn’t stick to it, being made out of copper and nickel, but our currency has been so devalued by inflation that even these base metals are too valuable to make coins of such low face value.
  
  Read more

• Elections loom in Israel after PM Benjamin Netanyahu sacks two ministers over disagreements on domestic and foreign policy

  02-12-2014 20:45
  The Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has propelled Israel towards new elections by sacking two restive coalition partners and calling for the dissolution of the Knesset as soon as possible.
  
  Read more

• The Guest Cat: The unlikeliest festive bestseller

  02-12-2014 20:45
  
  Occasionally at Christmas time, there emerges, among the dreck that publishers like to foist upon us, a book genuinely worthy of bestseller status. This year, it is an unlikely one: The Guest Cat, which is neither celebrity biography nor novelty joke compendium, though it does feature another staple of surefire bestseller status these days: cats.
  
  Read more

• Goodbye Clip Art: Vitally important bad design

  02-12-2014 20:44
  
  I can't draw. My ability to depict accurately dogs, cars or even cubes using my hands and my brain is pitiful and hasn't really moved on since I was about four years old.
  
  Read more

• UN expert slams UK’s 'b*******' attitude to immigration

  02-12-2014 20:44
  
  Politicians must stand up to the “bullshit” populist stereotypes about migration in Britain amid concerns that border control policies across the EU are putting people’s lives in danger, a top United Nations official has warned.
  
  Read more

• Victoria Cross won by hero who took on 10,000 fighters set to sell for £200,000

  02-12-2014 20:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A VICTORIA Cross won by an Army officer in a breath-taking feat of grit and derring-do is set to sell for around £200,000.
  
  Read more

• Andy McSmith's Diary: The Falklands hero, definitely not bullet-proof, whose citation went awry

  02-12-2014 20:38
  
  The fog is slowly lifting around the story of why one of the most daring soldiers killed in the Falklands War was never decorated.
  
  Read more

• Rise in racist, religious and homophobic hate crimes in London

  02-12-2014 20:32
  
  Hate crimes motivated by racism, religion and homophobia have significantly increased in London over the past year, a new report has warned.
  
  Read more

• BBC forced to investigate fictitious Radio 4 show's scorer Samantha for sexism

  02-12-2014 20:21
  
  For listeners to I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, “Samantha” has long been cherished as the BBC Radio 4 show’s libidinous scorer who, among many innuendos, likes “nothing better than to spend the evening licking the nuts off a large Neapolitan”.
  
  Read more

• Disney's Frozen: The power of princess merchandising

  02-12-2014 20:20
  
  The Patriot Centre at George Mason University, half an hour west of Washington, is a popular place to watch concerts, college athletics, professional wrestling and other events that command the attention of the adult world. But no event in the 29-year history of the arena has attracted as many people or earnt as much money as October's performances of "Disney on Ice Presents Frozen". For six days, waves of little blue-and-white Princess Elsas – and quite a few costumed parents – sang the mo
  
  Read more

• Capture of Isis leader's wife is another murky tale from the pit of marital scandals

  02-12-2014 20:16
  
  We love the wives of our favourite monsters. And the rumours which surround them. Fresh from spitting out our hatred of Madame Asma al-Assad and making fun of the late Osama’s many wives, we are now given the saga of Saja al-Dulaimi, wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the throat-cutter of Mosul and self-proclaimed “leader of the faithful” of the equally self-proclaimed “Islamic Caliphate”, or Isis. And this time the story comes from that pit of all Middle East marital scandals, Lebanon.
  
  Read more

Follow @GeneralnewsUK on Twitter!