Three adults and five children are winched to safety by helicopter from cliffs on the Somerset coast after climbing up to escape the incoming tide.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger criticises Roberto Mancini after the Manchester City boss said he was hopeful of signing midfielder Samir Nasri by the end of the month.

The Ministry of Defence could be about to announce "massive and disproportionate" cuts to the RAF in Scotland, the SNP claims.

President Obama holds further talks with congressional leaders in an attempt to resolve the looming debt crisis.

The UN makes its first aid delivery to drought victims in areas of Somalia controlled by al-Qaeda-linked militants since they lifted an aid ban.

Royal Navy divers will make a second attempt to detonate a live WWII mine dredged up off the Essex coast.

Pulling out British troops prematurely from Afghanistan could "dangerously weaken" remaining international forces, MPs say.

Tim Ecott describes the erotically shaped coco-de-mer, given to royal honeymooners the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in the Seychelles.