Britain's prize-winning nun hands off cash to convent
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In an act of charity in keeping with her calling, an Irish-born nun who won a 69,000-pound (100,000-euro, 135,000-dollar) prize gave it away on the spot.
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Alleged abuse victims from a number of Manchester children's homes are awarded Â£2m in compensation.
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Scotland Yard paid for a California soft porn star to fly to the UK in connection with the cash for honours inquiry after she claimed to have crucial information, which turned out to be valueless.
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The actress has become very famous after her Biss Brother win.
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A set of pearls once belonging to Marie Antoinette and taken to Britain by a friend for safekeeping will go on sale in December, and are expected to fetch up to $800,000.
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Six Catholic nuns have been excommunicated for heresy after refusing to give up membership in a Canadian sect whose founder claims to be possessed by the Virgin Mary, the Diocese of Little Rock announced Wednesday.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Sister Leonella, a nun who devoted her life to helping the sick in Africa, used to joke that there was a bullet with her name engraved on it in Somalia. When the bullet came, she used her last breaths to forgive those responsible.
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The couple received a prize of Rs 20 lakh.
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Â· Multimillionaire has given Â£125m to charity already Â· First step to fortune made selling trainers in garage
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The honour carries a cash prize of 25,000 euros (some $32,000). The awards panel described the book as "a work in which a long history of literary creation and critical and theoretical reflection unfolds with ...
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Tesco agrees to pay the cash to a woman who was told her winning Lottery ticket was invalid.
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Arts & entertainment: Royal College of Art to get rich reward for taking in artist made homeless by fire.
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The National Botanic Garden of Wales gets a Â£1.9m cash injection to wipe out its debts.
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An eight-year-old girl with a rare degenerative condition will have her Â£100,000 a year treatment funded by the NHS.
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Celina Jaitley has received an unusual gift from one of her fans from Kolkata.
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A woman is arrested over claims she was collecting for the fund to support the family of missing Madeleine McCann.
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Four migrant women who suffered sustained abuse given Â£140,000 compensation