The UK government has made a critical mistake: George Osborne's 'help to buy' scheme is off to a roaring start with money pouring into house-buying, including many first-time buyers... but there's a big problem.

The financial problems that most of the world's big economies first confronted in 2007-2008 are still affecting the global economy. No country can face today's challenges on its own. The time when crises were local and isolated in nature is in the past.

After nearly three decades of development activists' and experts' efforts to bring about FTTs, it would be heinous not to use the revenues to contribute to a better future for millions of poor men, women and children.

The UK has tremendous potential for growth powered by high-impact digital entrepreneurship. We need to do everything we can to help our start-ups to scale up.

Sir Ian Blair, the former Metropolitan Police commissioner, wrote a piece in The Times this weekend headlined "Ian Tomlinson is our Rodney King moment". A warning from such a figure of authority must be taken seriously.

Yeah, yeah, we all know who Merkel and Cameron are, but who are the others? They are the movers and shakers. The biggest names in European politi...

Next year Putin and Cameron take the reins of the G20 and G8 respectively. They must show that bringing the most powerful people in the world together can still deliver results for the most powerless.

Hundreds gathered on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro to demand an end to fossil fuel subsidies.

David Cameron has refused to accept a letter from the Argentinian president over the country's claim to the Falkland Islands. The prime minister sp...

Prime minister David Cameron has called for Greece to move "decisively and swiftly" to form a new government, warning that "delay could be deadly". ...

The first six months of 2012 saw 8 journalists and writers murdered in Mexico; that shameful statistic puts this summer's G20 host country ahead of co...

As next week's G20 summit approaches, David Cameron will be heading off to Mexico to join other world leaders in discussions on how to stop the food crisis that already means Fatou is just one of a billion people going hungry.

I urge banks to work to ensure women have access and support to be able to obtain finance. I call on the G20 leaders to create the environment where women receive the support they deserve and require in order to continue to build on their contribution to the global economy.

Argentina's continued position around the G20 table is bringing the whole institution into disrepute.

Away from the established centres of power, the world is changing fast. The first meeting of the G20 Foreign Ministers taking place today demonstrate again the need for Britain to continue to build new alliances. For the first time ever the G20 will be chaired by, and held in, Mexico: an indicative sign of the shift which enhances the status of fast-rising economies.