British sailor rescued after four days on raft

Jay Patel and his Belgian assistant survived on just water and dried biscuits after his 44ft motorboat sank in rough seas

Briton 'threw lover off Sydney cliff'

A high profile trial held 13 years after the model's death has ended with a guilty verdict for chauffeur Gordon Wood

Huge sea eagles are on the way back

Conservationists begin campaign to win landowners' support for the reintroduction of birds of prey after 100 years absence

COMMENT: Don't blame rail firms for higher fares

Department for Transport wants passengers to pay 50 per cent of rail costs by 2014, which means tickets must go up

London Cyclists: ‘They just get in the way’

I have no problem whatsoever with cyclists as long as they stay in their place – the pavement, says Giles Smith

London Cyclists: ‘Attacks just egg me on’

Things have been thrown at me, along with regular abuse – all from strangers. And no, I don’t ignore red lights, says Greg Hurst

Case study: snowboarding to a new future

Alan McIntyre is taking his redundancy package to the slopes in Whistler, Canada, for a four-month course with Alltrack

Case study: a new game plan in Africa

I decided I either plodded along with life the way it was or I needed to do something radical to change things, says Tracy Brookshaw

Hairspray linked to boys’ birth defect

Women exposed during the early stages of pregnancy are twice as likely to give birth to a son with a serious genital defect

Fast-food companies get healthier

Fast-food outlets have pledged to make their food more healthy as part of a campaign to cut heart disease and obesity

Drunken captain gets two months

A tanker captain was found drunk at the wheel of a ship laden with thousands of tonnes of potentially explosive chemicals

Spike Milligan’s children unhappy at sale

Daughter claims memorabilia owned by the late comedian has been put up for sale without the knowledge of his four children

Sergeant waltzes off with lucrative career boost

Already on the books of six agencies, John Sergeant will be able to triple his fee to £15,000 for an after-dinner speech

Schools and colleges could soon have sex clinics

Secondary schools and colleges should have sexual health clinics on site to offer pupils advice on contraception, report suggests

KGB wanted me to defect, says Sir Bernard Lovell

The astronomer and celebrated scientist has hinted that the Soviet Union wanted him to defect at the height of the Cold War

The British rescue that saved a boy

A silver coin is all that John Silbermann has to show of an operation that saved 10,000 Jews exactly 70 years ago

Jordan to face trial over speeding offence

Katie Price, the former glamour model known as Jordan, is to stand trial next year for an alleged speeding offence

Madonna’s divorce goes through in minutes

The nearly eight-year marriage of Madonna and Guy Ritchie was ended in minutes in a London court

Police arrest man over murder of student

Qatari student Mohammed al-Majed, 16, died two days after suffering a serious head injury when he hit the pavement

Liverpool pulls application to trademark liver bird

Liverpool FC will not apply to trademark one of the city’s symbols after the city council said that it would oppose the bid