Queen Elizabeth II has bestowed the bi-annual British honours. Recipients included a fashion designer, an illustrator and a scientist.

The UK’s Olympic security plans have come under fresh scrutiny after several people on a terror watch list were waved through airport border controls.

Visa has closed a donation channel to WikiLeaks again after a payment processor briefly accepted money transfers to the anti-secrecy site.

WikiLeaks has posted a huge encrypted file, sparking speculation that those behind the organisation may be prepared to release more information.

A 13th century skeleton unearthed on the grounds of a friary may be the earliest physical evidence that Africans lived in England in medieval times.

A resurgent El Nino and persistently high levels of greenhouse gases are likely to make 2007 the world’s hottest year ever recorded, climate scientists said on Thursday. The…