Several cancellations to visit Ukraine during Euro 2012 are made amid concern over alleged mistreatment of jailed ex-PM. European leaders have mounted renewed diplomatic pressure on Ukraine over its treatment of Yulia Tymoshenko, the jailed ...

Refugees are left stranded by hostilities on the Sudanese border.   Aid workers are warning of a humanitarian disaster on the border between the two Sudans as tens of thousands of refugees from the recent fighting ...

The cross-party Commons Media Committee questioned journalists and bosses at the now closed paper, as well as police and lawyers for hacking victims. Its report will consider the role of James Murdoch, who has denied ...

(Reuters) - With some sporting pirate garb and black beards in light-hearted tribute to their name, Germany's Pirates party gathered in a small city hall and in the vast open waters of cyberspace this ...

Dissident who met Chen Guangcheng after he arrived in Beijing says the blind activist climbed over a high wall at night. New testimony has emerged about how Chen Guangcheng, a blind human rights activist under ...

Google bosses knew their Street View cars would collect e-mails, names, addresses and other personal data from Wi-Fi users around the world, a government report shows. The search giant had previously claimed that this ...

(Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron has denied favouring Rupert Murdoch's business interests in exchange for political support from his newspaper empire, and defended a minister's handling of an ill-fated takeover bid involving the ...

The President displayed his talent for stand-up at the annual White House correspondents' dinner.   It was the annual White House correspondents' dinner on Saturday, hosted by the late-night talk star Jimmy Kimmel, and the Comedian-in-Chief ...

Blow to Afghan peace hopes as documents reveal Bin Laden, Zawahiri and Omar discussed joint operations against Nato. Documents found in the house where Osama bin Laden was killed a year ago show a close ...

Telegraph Sport can reveal that the Court for Arbitration in Sport has ruled that the BOA's life ban does not comply with the World Anti-Doping Association code and is therefore unenforceable. The judgment will ...

At least eight reported dead after explosions and gunfire at university theatre hall used for church services in Kano. A bomb and gun attack on a theatre used for church services at a university in ...

When your back is against the wall and you are forced to make tough choices, your real motives shine through.  That is why this last week, a bad one for David Cameron and his Government ...

The Ministry of Defence says it is evaluating sites for surface-to-air missiles for the Olympic Games, and could place them at residential flats. Residents at an estate in east London have received a leaflet saying ...

Days before France's presidential vote, French website publishes documents it says prove campaign funding violations. The government of the late Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi agreed to fund French President Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign to ...

The Coalition promised a 'bonfire of the quangos' that would save £2.6billion. But a quick glance at the organisations' expenses claims suggests that staff aren't feeling the heat just yet. For as the rest of the ...

If French Muslims are largely left-leaning in their voting preferences, there are exceptions. France24.com spoke to three French Muslims of Arab descent, all of whom vote for the far-right National Front party. Here are ...

The country known for “coffee shops” where joints and cappuccinos share spots on the menu may see its famed tolerance for drugs go up in smoke. A Dutch judge upheld a government plan to ...

A law threatening to close Mississippi termination clinics may have consequences for more than one state. David Usborne visits the scene of a bitter argument.   The cars begin to draw into the clinic's small parking ...

A man who sold counterfeit medicines, including Viagra, has been told to hand over more than £14m by Southwark Crown Court. He kept customer's details in a folder entitled the "Thick People File". The Medicines and ...

An increasingly number of pupils are turning up at school malnourished and dirty, causing teachers to buy them food from their own wages, according to new research. Almost half (48%) of teaching staff regularly witness ...

The House of Representatives has approved Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act with a vote count of 248-168. The bill is now headed for the Senate. President Barack Obama will be able to sign ...

When the shareholders of Barclays file into the Royal Festival Hall today for the bank’s annual meeting, they will be heading for a showdown with chief executive Bob Diamond that could prove a watershed ...

Wall Street giant attacked for deferring 99 per cent of its tax bill.   The London arm of Goldman Sachs paid only £4.1m in corporation tax to the Treasury last year despite making pre-tax profits of ...

Judge refuses to dismiss most serious charge but tells prosecution it must prove private knew he was aiding the enemy. The military judge in the court-martial of the US soldier accused of handing WikiLeaks the ...

Barclays faces a revolt by shareholders angry at the pay of its top executives, when the bank holds its annual general meeting later. The chairman of Barclays is expected to make conciliatory remarks on the ...

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has been found "criminally responsible" for war crimes by supporting brutal Sierra Leone rebels in return for blood diamonds. Presiding Judge Richard Lussick said that prosecutors have proved beyond reasonable ...

Pierre Mouton, a fund manager at Notz Stucki & Cie. in Geneva, looks at the rise of anti- European, anti-austerity parties across the border in France with concern. It may keep him out of ...

There is still no evidence mobile phones harm human health, says a major safety review for the UK's Health Protection Agency (HPA). Scientists looked at hundreds of studies of mobile exposure and found no conclusive ...

BEIJING — When Hu Jintao, China’s top leader, picked up the telephone last August to talk to a senior anticorruption official visiting Chongqing, special devices detected that he was being wiretapped — by local ...

Government's strategy for recovery under fire as UK returns to recess.   Pressure is mounting on the Coalition to reverse course on its strategy of spending cuts after the British economy officially slumped back into recession ...

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is expected to suspend his campaign next week, US media report. The former House Speaker said he expected Mitt Romney, who won five primaries on Tuesday, to be the Republican ...

The UK economy has returned to recession, after shrinking by 0.2% in the first three months of 2012. A sharp fall in construction output was behind the surprise contraction, the Office for National Statistics said. A ...

Culture Secretary faces calls to quit as News Corp releases devastating emails revealing his secret help for BSkyB bid Ed Miliband calls for Jeremy Hunt to resign after damning 163 page dossier of emails is ...

A judge is to see for herself how the US assessed the damage inflicted upon the government by Bradley Manning’s WikiLeaks activities. Manning’s lawyer says the case against the soldier should be dropped as ...

Revenue from adverts tied to sites controlled by the crime ring earned them £9.1m in commission.  Hundreds of thousands of computers will simultaneously lose access to the internet on 9 July, unless their owners check ...

Claims by two Muslims accused of role in bomb attack during 2010 World Cup date from after coalition came to power. Two men facing terrorism charges in east Africa are accusing the British government and ...

Figures released on Wednesday will show whether the UK economy is in recession. Gross domestic product (GDP) figures will show the value of all the goods and services produced in the economy in the first ...

DHARAMSHALA, April 23: Chinese authorities in eastern Tibet have arrested a well-known Tibetan singer on suspected charges of singing songs calling for Tibet’s independence. Lo Lo, 29, was arrested on April 19 in Yushul region ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hay and grass seed cover the bare spots on the lawn in front of the stately old City Hall where Occupy Charlotte’s camp held its ground for nearly four months. The ...

David Cameron yesterday vowed to ‘stay in touch’ with voters as he brushed aside claims that he was an ‘arrogant posh boy’. The Prime Minister admitted mistakes during a turbulent month, singling out the fuel ...

Markets take fright at Hollande’s election lead as Dutch government steps down over budget impasse. UK Treasury seeks £16bncuts because of uncertainty.   Europe’s economy took another dramatic lurch downwards yesterday as investors found fresh reason ...

Proposals expected to include fast-track procedures to license sharing of personal data in areas where it is currently prohibited. Ministers are planning a shakeup of the law on the use of confidential personal data to ...

A London council has been accused of starting "social cleansing" in the capital by asking a Stoke-on-Trent housing association to take on up to 500 families on housing benefit. Newham Council says it can no ...

GUETERSLOH, Germany (Reuters) - Two years ago voters in this industrial city on the eastern edge of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) narrowly backed German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives in a regional election. But next month, voters ...

WASHINGTON — One Saturday last fall, President Obama interrupted a White House strategy meeting to raise an issue not on the agenda. He declared, aides recalled, that the administration needed to more aggressively use ...

  One by one, revelations from the ransacked archives of the old Gaddafi regime in Libya cast fresh doubts on Britain's boast that it is never complicit in torture. First we heard the claims of ...

Military says it will wipe out Lee Myung-bak's administration by 'unprecedented peculiar means' lasting three to four minutes. North Korea's military says it is planning to launch "special actions" meant to wipe out South Korean ...

The Care Quality Commission is being criticised for failing to take sufficient action after undercover filming showed an 80-year-old woman being slapped by a care worker. Jane Worroll secretly filmed her mother's room in Ash ...

YouTube could be forced to pay a huge royalties bill after a German court ruled that the video sharing site must do more to stop users uploading copyrighted material. The Hamburg court decided that the ...