Teacher Peter Harvey shouted 'die, die' as he hit pupil with dumbbell

A stressed teacher ?went mad? and tried to kill a pupil by bludgeoning him with a dumbbell and shouting ?die! die! die!?, a court was told yesterday.

Tories switch target to attack Nick Clegg

The Conservatives turned their fire on Nick Clegg yesterday as the Liberal Democrat leader replaced Gordon Brown as the main threat to their hopes of an outright majority.

Jack Tweed found not guilty of rape

Jack Tweed, the widower of the reality television star Jade Goody, was cleared yesterday of raping a teenage student six months after his wife died of cancer.

7/7 bombing victim Behnaz Mozakka 'might have been saved'

The family of a woman killed in the July 7 London bombings wants an inquiry into whether the emergency services could have saved her after discovering that she survived for 40 minutes.

Archives reveal belief in Loch Ness Monster

The existence of the Loch Ness Monster was ?beyond doubt? in the mind of one of Scotland?s most senior police officers, according to a file released yesterday by the National Archives of Scotland.

Family who tortured and decapitated Michael Gilbert sent to jail

Three people were each jailed for life yesterday for the ?depraved? torture and murder of a vulnerable man they held captive as a slave.

'Suicide bomber' targets British Ambassador to Yemen

The British Ambassador to Yemen escaped assassination yesterday when a suicide bomber attacked his convoy as it travelled through the capital, Sanaa.

Study finds higher chocolate consumption linked to depression

Chocolate?s claims to being a ?mood food? are supported by a study which finds that people at risk of depression appear to eat more of it.

Shell drafted letter Tony Blair sent to Gaddafi while Prime Minister

Tony Blair lobbied Colonel Muammar Gaddafi on behalf of Shell in a letter written for him in draft form by the oil company, documents obtained by The Times reveal.

The rabbits that ate an island

Experts flew in from the far side of the world; they paced and poked, calculated, calibrated. They set thousands of cunning traps and waited ... for six long months until ? hurrah! ? the last unwelcome visitor scuttled to its doom and the tiny Hebridean island of Canna was released from its plague of rats.

Parliament will lose much scientific expertise after election

Science will struggle to find a voice in the next Parliament as most of its strongest advocates among MPs are retiring or likely to lose their seats, research by The Times has found.

Lilly the lonely meerkat at Twinlakes theme park find love on internet

A lonely meerkat that turned to online dating in search of love has found her Mr Darcy ? thanks to The Times.