Armed with nothing more than the hope of building a life in the UK, hundreds of refugees from Syria, Egypt, and other war-torn countries have risked their lives to reach the other side of the Channel

The data watchdog has warned ministers that staff at blue-chip companies, including leading law firms, suspected of illegally obtaining personal information will escape jail if convicted of criminal offences because of their failure to enact legislation.

An app which promotes child safety by killing off its characters with grisly inventiveness; bottle caps that become building blocks; a floating classroom; and an aircraft that weighs less than a Galapagos tortoise.

Documents released by the American former CIA employee claim that the agency is at the forefront of efforts to develop “offensive” online techniques

Some 600,000 documents that shed light on Britain's recent past may be released only slowly, or not at all, for lack of staff

Tasting notes of prime ministers' cellar tell the story of official hospitality

Phone-hacking trial told how News International wanted to halt civil claim

Cold? Fed up with the weather? It could be worse. Cahal Milmo looks back to the day, exactly 200 years ago, when the river Thames froze solid – probably for the last time

A British company has been accused of making “disgusting amounts of money” from a controversial scheme by Malta to sell European Union passports to tycoons and celebrities ranging from a former Formula One world champion to a Chinese billionaire.

A former international badminton player who became a bodyguard and close friend to the ex-wife of the Sultan of Brunei abused her position to steal diamonds worth £11.6m from her “extremely wealthy” employer, a court heard yesterday.