Scotland's Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill has defended his decision to release the Lockerbie bomber almost three years ago as the only man convicte...

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi died on Sunday, after two appeals against his conviction for the Lockerbie bombings and more than a decade of tense p...

HIV/Aids is no longer the death sentence it once was. But while millions of HIV positive people lead healthy and productive lives, we still have nine million people who still cannot access treatment. We also have a long way to go on preventing new infections.

The credit rating agency Moody's has downgraded 16 Spanish banks along with Santander's UK arm, citing the Spanish government's reduced ability to sho...

Leading figures from the worlds of media, politics and the arts gathered to pay an emotional tribute to "bravest of the brave" war correspondent Marie...

Correction: Our article on 16 May reported on speculation that the release by Wikileaks of a redacted cable from the US Embassy in Baku could have led...

As I follow the modern Greek tragedy unfolding in Europe, I flash back to the 18 years I spent in Athens, walking to school in Plaka (the old part of ...

An American self-defence instructor has been banned from Britain by Home Secretary Theresa May, ahead of a series of seminars the man had planned in t...

The owner and general manager of Connyland zoo has denied that two dolphins died from ingesting a heroin replacement drug, instead blaming a "planned ...

The Mexican Electoral Commission has apologised for an "outrageous" dress worn by an assistant at the first televised debate in the Mexican presidenti...

The ongoing trial of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik has raised questions over how psychiatrists and courts, and the public, diagnose insanity....

With Nicolas Sarkozy losing his premiership to socialist leader Francois Hollande, speculation is rife as to where life will take him and his glamouro...

Two dolphins at a Swiss zoo died after ingesting the heroin substitute drug buprenorphin some time after a "rave" near their habitat, a post-mortem ha...

Protesters clashed with police in Moscow, resulting in 400 arrests, over of the inauguration of Vladimir Putin as president. A peaceful protest by ...

What might the man (or woman) on the Clapham omnibus make of the case of Anders Behring Breivik, currently on trial for the killing of 77 people in Oslo and Utøya in July 2011?

By the time you read this, the Greek elections will probably be over and we will be waiting for the full results of the 6 May ballot battle, to show us what in blue blazes Greece does next.

The company behind the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster has introduced a raft of new safety measures as it launched a new liner. As the new Cos...

As the world focuses on Afghanistan today; President Obama's historic visit and discussions about the future of the country, the scene that we witnessed unfolding inside the little neonatal unit at the provincial hospital this morning runs in freeze frame through my head.

The claims by a Portuguese taxi driver who said police ignored the possibility he may have had Madeleine McCann in his cab the night she went missing ...