The 24-year-old woman was in the big cat's enclosure when she was mauled and seriously injured at South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Dalton-in-Furness. One of tigers is pictured inside a cage at the park.
Conservative councillor David Carr is facing calls to resign after a rant against travellers which has been condemned by the Gypsy Council as 'racist'.
Officers boarded Pakistan International Airlines flight PK709, which was bound for Manchester, after it landed at Stansted and removed the men from the plane.
Congressional investigators have published a series of internal BP memos which they say proves that the British company systematically and negligently put safety at risk on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in order to increase profits.
Uzbekistan last night closed its borders to refugees fleeing neighbouring Kyrgyzstan as the numbers killed in the ethnic violence spiralled and aid agencies reported fresh allegations of atrocities from the survivors.
Serbia took a significant step towards joining the EU after European foreign ministers relaxed demands for the alleged genocide fugitive Ratko Mladic to be arrested before allowing its membership application to proceed.
President Barack Obama urged the future leaders of the US military to stamp out sexual assault from their ranks, warning that the actions of a few individuals could undermine the strongest force in the world.
After spending years restoring his 900 acre estate in Tuscany, the pop star Sting is to throw open its doors - at a price - to anyone who wants to hire it for weddings or parties.
Britain and the US upped the ante in an effort to save the Middle East peace process on Friday by bluntly telling Israeli and Palestinian leaders to make "hard decisions" or face losing the chance of a two-state solution.
Despite dramatic terrorist incidents, the terror threat that led to 9/11 has been defeated, and Obama is right to say the U.S. should move on, says Peter Bergen.
Pepper Schwartz says with constant drumbeat of scandals in armed forces, the military must require education programs to teach men self control, address culture of sexual entitlement
Angelina Jolie, when writing about her preventive double mastectomy, did not discuss how much her surgeries cost, but she did mention that many women would not be able to afford the $3,000 to $4,000 test that led her to make the decision. What she failed to say was why the test costs so much.
The organisers of an Arctic expedition in which a schoolboy was mauled to death by a polar bear will not face charges, Norweigian officials have confirmed.
In Greece, the perils of a drawn-out debt crisis are imprinted on its younger population — whose unemployment numbers are soaring — who turn to selling their bodies for money and to a dangerous, cheap new street drug for escape.
After meetings with Israeli and Palestinian officials, Secretary of State John Kerry urged them to “demonstrate leadership” to find a way back to direct peace talks.
