John Yates, the assistant Metropolitan police commissioner, tells MPs that police are likely to interview the prime minister’s director of ...

Murder police investigate after body of girl aged less than a week found abandoned in Bury Police have launched a murder ...

Gang member Jamie Price, son of dance music star Goldie, is given life sentence for fatal stabbing in Wolverhampton in ...

Stephen Green to leave HSBC to take up role in coalition government after reports David Cameron had been struggling to ...

Alternative media and innovative multi-platform storytelling are set to challenge a complacent film industry And so the four-day

European commission president uses state of the union address to urge leaders to steer clear of racism and xenophobia The president ...

Christos Tsiolkas and David Mitchell, both much-tipped when they appeared on the award longlist, have been overlooked in the six ...

Paul Matthews says choice of Dr Freddy Patel, suspended from practice for three months last week, for postmortem was ‘routine’ The ...

South West RDA announces successful installation of pioneering marine-energy test device off the Cornish coast After seven years in the making ...

Support of two independent MPs gives Labor party a majority of one seat over Liberal-led opposition coalition Julia Gillard will lead ...

A group of homeless people was recruited onto the Green Party ballot by a Republican operative, and Democrats are crying foul.

Unions started a major strike on Tuesday over President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plans to raise the retirement age.

Experiments in teacher-led schools raise morale, but critics say they could blur educators’ focus.

Two independent lawmakers said they will support Prime Minister Julia Gillard, ending weeks of political impasse.

Democrats are having trouble articulating a clear set of policy goals, a study of campaign Web sites suggests.

A wildfire in a rugged canyon in the Colorado foothills forced hundreds of people to flee, officials said Tuesday.

Labor organizers have met strong resistance as they try to organize carwashes in Los Angeles.

Robert E. Diamond Jr. helped turn the British bank into a global brand with the acquisition of Lehman Brothers’ U.S. operation and was behind much ...

The current Supreme Court justices are much more likely than their predecessors to hire clerks who match their own ideological positions.

A heavy reliance on emergency rooms care is seen as a sign of weaknesses in the primary health care system.

The Catholic Church has been accused of being ”deeply misogynist”, intolerant of gay people and ”monarchical” in its approach by members of a

Here are the six books shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize for fiction.

Andy Coulson, one of David Cameron’s most senior aides, will be questioned by police over alleged phone-hacking while he was editor of News ...

Hollywood star visits the flood-ravaged country to help raise funds.

The odds are against the Australian novelist as he and five others are named on the Booker shortlist.

The ’superstar housewife’ explains why there’s usually a good reason for her nastiness.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has fallen victim to a “Google bomb” attack on the web.

Some of the nearly six million people who paid too much or too little tax find out whether they are due a rebate ...

Travel misery caused by London Underground industrial action.

Residents welcome confirmation there will be no change to way runways at the west London airport are used.