The Green Party is confident of growing beyond its strongholds and "spreading out" across the country, its leader Natalie Bennett says, ahead of local elections on Thursday.

A dental nurse poisoned her boss's coffee with mercury after being given a final written warning, a jury hears.

The European Space Agency says its flagship Herschel telescope, the most powerful infrared observatory ever put in orbit, has run out of coolant and stopped working.

US basketball player Jason Collins comes out as gay, the first active male athlete in a major American professional sport to do so.

The owner of a factory building that collapsed in Bangladesh killing hundreds inside is met by an angry crowd on his first appearance in court.

Primark says it will pay compensation and offer emergency food aid to victims of the Bangladesh factory collapse who worked for its supplier.

The first pictures of South African's former leader Nelson Mandela are broadcast since his discharge from hospital, showing him with ANC leaders.

A video of an unfortunate woman trying to parallel park her car in Belfast becomes an internet sensation.