Top Cop Confirms They Will Quiz Coulson

The Prime Minister's communications chief will be quizzed by police in relation to claims journalists hacked the phones of public figures, a senior officer confirms.

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The body of a newborn baby has been found in the front garden of a house in Bury.

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A British man suspected of burning his wife's body and burying the ashes in cement after accidentally killing her at their French countryside mansion has been arrested.

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A man has free-climbed a San Francisco skyscraper using nothing more than suction cups to help him cling to the glass structure.

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One of the world's biggest money printing factories is being probed by fraud investigators over dud banknote paper.

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French workers are taking to the streets in protest over proposed new pension reforms.

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Social housing firm Connaught, which employs 10,000 people, is on the brink of collapse, it emerged today.

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Sky News has learned that our current economic plight is even worse than in the aftermath of the 1980s recession.

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Plans for a referendum on changing the Westminster voting system have comfortably cleared their first Commons hurdle. 

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A "Double Broom" created by a five-year-old boy is one of the most ingenious inventions of the last decade, according to the British Library.

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Rescuers in Guatemala are taking advantage of a brief let-up in torrential downpours to search for victims and survivors of a series of landslides that have so far claimed 44 lives.

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England coach Fabio Capello and principal sponsors are backing Wayne Rooney, despite newspaper allegations concerning a relationship with a prostitute.

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Andy Coulson, the Prime Minister's communications chief, would be happy to meet police to discuss allegations of phone-hacking, Downing Street has said.

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A British man has plunged to his death from a fifth-floor hotel balcony after apparently taking part in a game.

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A 30-stone man has left his job after being told his weight makes him a health and safety risk.

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An American teenager has had a lucky escape after being swept away in a river.

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Multi-millionaire banker Bob Diamond has been named as the next chief executive of Barclays, on a salary of £1.35m.

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Transport bosses pledged to keep London Underground running despite a 24 hour strike by rail workers.  

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More people would opt to cut back on food rather than give up their broadband connection if money became tight, according to a Sky News survey.

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Julia Gillard has clung on to power as Australia's Prime Minister, 17 days after her party suffered major losses in the country's general election.

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Millions of people are about to find out whether they will be hit with a demand for more than £1,000 in tax they have underpaid because of a blunder.

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Tony Blair will not cancel a party to celebrate the launch of his memoirs, despite a pledge by protesters to disrupt the event.

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Two British soldiers who died after being caught up in separate explosions in southern Afghanistan have been named.

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Two schools in Northern Ireland have been evacuated after an eight-year-old boy found a suspected pipe bomb and carried it into a classroom.

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