Adele wins 12 Billboard awards as Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and LMFAO pick up trophies in Los Angeles.

Gardeners at Chelsea Flower Show are being given test kits to identify Sudden Oak Death, a deadly plant disease that is sweeping the country.

Plans to cut employment red tape by stripping down labour rights and making it easier for firms to sack under-performing staff have been blasted as "complete nonsense" by Business Secretary Vince Cable.

Internet auction site eBay has been flooded with London 2012 Olympic torches for sale, after one appeared to have been sold for over £150,000.

Music stars including Mick Hucknell lead tributes to Bee Gee Robin Gibb, who has died at 62.

A long-standing friend of Princess Michael of Kent was found shot dead in a Moscow suburb yesterday morning.

Nick Clegg is to propose introducing a student premium to guarantee financial help for all those who receive free school meals when they enter higher education, reports claim.

Self-confessed "beautiful" journalist Samantha Brick has disclosed the secrets of a happy marriage: a strict clothing allowance, regular weigh-ins and never feigning a headache in the bedroom.

The Prime Minister says Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, should never have been released, while Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond says his death will put to rest 'conspiracy theories' over his illness.

The Middleton family have been invited to join the Queen's Diamond Jubilee pageant on the Thames, it has emerged.

Princess Michael of Kent is receiving lessons in Russian in an attempt to improve her knowledge of the language.

Telegraph View: think it's easy being Queen? Try walking a mile in her shoes.

Will Smith, the Men in Black actor, says Prince Charles looks away during bedroom scenes in films.

David Gandy, the male model, has started a romance with Sarah Ann Macklin after separating from Mollie King, the pop singer, earlier this year.

Telegraph View: Genetically modified food offers one of our best hopes for feeding the world's growing population. Vandalising experimental research is short-sighted, ignorant and malicious.

The music world was in mourning today after Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees died aged 62 following a lengthy battle with cancer.

Robin Gibb had music "in his blood", a former member of the Bee Gees has said as stars paid tribute to the singer who died aged 62 after a lengthy battle with cancer.

Charles Moore reviews Green Gold by Peter Clery (Phillimore & Co).

The law applies equally to everyone - even raucous nightclubs frequented by the Royal family, discovers Cristina Odone.

In terms of the truth about the Lockerbie bombing, the death of the only man convicted of the atrocity changes very little.

Ministers are dragging their feet over more than a dozen key recommendations from a confidential Government report on boosting economic growth in Britain, a leaked Downing Street document obtained by The Daily Telegraph discloses.

After drought in March, floods in April and frost in May, gardeners are struggling to force flowers to bloom in time for the annual Chelsea Flower Show.

Police will be forced to investigate any incident of anti-social behaviour if reported by at least five people when Theresa May this week rips up Labour's flagship Asbos.

David Cameron's promise to strengthen families with tax breaks for married couples has fallen victim to Liberal Democrat opposition inside government, a think-tank warns today.

Adrian Beecroft's report lays bare the breadth of the revolution in employment law which was being considered by close aides to David Cameron last Autumn - and the degree to which the Liberal Democrats in the Coalition ensured that only a pale shadow of his proposals never saw the light of day.