A senior police officer who would likely have faced misconduct proceedings for his role in spying on the grieving family and ...

George Osborne is coming under pressure to explain the ‘secrecy’ surrounding his meetings with media bosses including Rupert Murdoch. As ...

George Osborne is crowdsourcing ideas for his upcoming March budget. This is a wonderful idea, as the Chancellor needs all ...

In the US, a prospective juror for a murder trial has been eliminated, for watching the documentary series 'Making a ...

Have you heard the one about the government calling its opponents terrorist sympathisers, while it helps its allies to spread ...

Convicted rapist Daniel Holtzclaw was sentenced on 21 January for his crimes against 13 black women. He committed vile sexual ...

David Cameron has only a slim majority in the House of Commons. So rather than risking defeat on controversial issues ...

Today’s sophisticated astronomy equipment can detect planets thousands of light-years away from Earth, so you’d think it was pretty safe ...

2015’s average global temperature was the highest since records began in 1850, according to new figures released by the Met ...

US president Barack Obama announced executive orders on 5 January, aimed at addressing the fact that there have been over ...

G4S has been accused of creating "apartheid Britain" after one of its subcontractors, Jomast, painted the front doors of asylum ...

Non-EU citizens who have lived in the UK for five years will be deported unless they can prove they earn ...

There was good news for commuters in London on 21 January when it was announced that the publicly-owned Transport for ...

The Tories have suffered another humiliating defeat at the hands of the Lords. This time, over their plans to strip ...

Eight-year-old Ronnie Hazlie watched a TV programme about food banks and was so upset at the thought of other children ...

Steve Rotheram, the parliamentary private secretary (PPS) for Jeremy Corbyn, has been ejected from his position on the National Executive ...

The BBC Trust has been blasted for shouldering the £750m costs of a Conservative manifesto pledge to maintain funding for ...