Coalition plans to expand the powers of the security services to monitor emails and phone calls will give them "unfettered access to every single comm...
Thousands of London bus workers are to be balloted for strikes in a row over payment for working during the Olympic Games. Unite said 24,000 of its...
Boris Johnson accused Ken Livingstone of being a "f*****g liar" as a furious row over the mayoral candidates tax arrangements spilled off air followin...
Police have begun an investigation after a candidate in Scotland's local elections turned out to be a shop dummy. The term "dummy candidate" is usu...
A soldier who fought in the Iraq war and escorted the Queen to Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding has spoken out against critics of plans to ...
Boy band One Direction have reportedly turned down an invitation to meet US President Barack Obama at the White House, because their hectic schedule m...
Allowing doctors to assist terminally ill patients to commit suicide would "contaminate the medical profession", campaigners against changing the law ...
David Cameron and Nick Clegg have failed in their mission to ensure both rich and poor share the burden when it comes to tackling Britain's financial ...
David Cameron has restated his opposition to the UK ever adopting the euro after a Liberal Democrat Cabinet minister said it was "unwise" to rule out ...
Live long and prosper Mr President. Barack Obama got a boost to his re-election campaign last month when Star Trek's Lieutenant Uhura, aka Nichelle Ni...
HMS Dauntless, the Royal Navy's most advanced destroyer, has set sail from Portsmouth to patrol the waters around the Falkland Islands. The ship's ...
The best friend of Stephen Lawrence who was with the black teenager when he was murdered in 1993 will be appointed deputy mayor of London if the Lib D...
The Queen could lose sovereignty over Australia if Scotland becomes independent, according to a senior solicitor. David Denton SC, a senior counsel...
The snap agreement by the four leading candidates to be London mayor to publish how much they pay in tax points to the increasing Americanisation of B...
Have you ever wondered how Doctor Who or Postman Pat would vote? Of course you have. How do we know? Because polling firm YouGov asked you. The pol...
A gay Labour MP has defended criticising the government's drive to introduce same-sex marriage as "pure politics". Ben Bradshaw, a former Labour cu...
Scrapping bank holidays could add at least £18bn to the nation's annual economic output, a think-tank has said. The Centre for Economics and Busin...
A wealthy Tory donor flew his private jet out of British airspace at night in order to avoid paying tax, according to a lobbyist caught up in the cash...
The "largest and most powerful warship" ever built for the Royal Navy is beginning to take shape as two massive sections of HMS Queen Elizabeth were j...
Home owners could be blocked from carrying out minor improvements to their houses if they refuse to also make their houses more environmentally friend...
Human rights judges will rule tomorrow on whether to allow the government to extradite radical preacher Abu Hamza to America to face terrorist charges...
Muslim cleric Abu Hamza, who faces extradition to the United States on terror charges once appeared to embrace Western society. Hamza worked as a b...
It's a long-standing White House Easter tradition that the US president entertain children on the South Lawn for a egg roll, and this year Barack Obam...
US President Barack Obama joined his wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha on the White House South Lawn yesterday to take part in a series of E...
David Cameron hailed a decision by human rights judges today which paves the way for radical preacher Abu Hamza and four other terrorist suspects to b...
