Prime minister issues statement following sudden death of his father yesterdayDavid Cameron paid tribute to his "amazing" father today, describing him as a "life-enhancer" who had "touched a lot of lives in lots of different ways".The prime minister was at Ian Cameron's bedside in hospital in the south of France as he died yesterday followin

The Wall Street bank failed to notify the City watchdog when Fabrice Tourre, the banker at the heart of the Abacus case, was accused of fraud by the SECThe Financial Service Authority has hit Goldman Sachs with a £17.5m fine, one of the biggest ever levied by the watchdog, after the Wall Street bank failed to warn that one of its UK-based staff wa

JHJones would like to know if non-contestable harassment warnings can be used as evidence of bad characterJHJones asks:"I would like Liberty to comment on the use of harassment warnings by the police. The police appear to be able to issue harassment warnings if a complaint is made, without needing to investigate. The subject of the warning cannot

The mayor of London is cuddling up to Ed Balls to distance himself from the coalition's cuts – and who can blame him?The axeman cometh and, unusually, he has an appointment – 20 October will see the coalition government cuts programme unveiled. Ed Balls says the cuts will go deep at precisely the wrong time and may well plunge us into a double

Capitalism's favourite bogeyman Fidel Castro has admitted that the communist economic model doesn't work. Cuba's former long-time leader made his…

Libya's controversial leader Muammar Gaddafi is to meet Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi today on his two day visit to the country. Along with…

Mexico's drug-related violence is looking more and more like an insurgency, according to Hillary Clinton. The US Secretary of State made the…

At least 12 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in a powerful explosion in Russia's north Caucasus according to regional police. It…

A new video of Chile's trapped miners has been broadcast showing the 33 men sending greetings to their families. They have also had their first…

The European Commission has been accused of failing to protect members of the Roma community deported from France. Nearly a thousand people have been…

The Austrian girl kidnapped and held as a slave for more than eight years is set to tell her story tonight. Natascha Kampusch will read extracts from…

Silvio Berlusconi will address parliament in the last week of September following weeks of acrimony with his estranged former ally, Gianfranco Fini.…

The French city of Lyon is helping to carve a more harmonious future for race relations in France. Alongside the words "God is great", the latest…

The American preacher planning to burn copies of the Koran on Saturday is refusing to call off his stunt. Terry Jones has a collection of the Muslim…

Attempting to defuse rising tensions over a leaked UN report. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is in Rwanda, urging the government not to withdraw its…

The Danish cartoonist, whose unflattering drawing of the Muslim Prophet Mohammad sparked fatal protests five years ago, has been honoured at a press…

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union presidency has said that Iran's suspension of a stoning sentence against a woman convicted of adultery is not enough and demands it be completely overturned.

At least 12 people died after a car loaded with explosives blew up in a market in southern Russia on Thursday.

Goldman has been fined by FSA for its failure to report a US fraud case

The Wall Street bank failed to notify the City watchdog when Fabrice Tourre, the banker at the heart of the Abacus case, was accused of fraud by the SECThe Financial Service Authority has hit Goldman Sachs with a £17.5m fine, one of the biggest ever levied by the watchdog, after the Wall Street bank failed to warn that one of its UK-based staff wa

British resident cannot sue firm for allegedly flying terror suspects abroad for CIA because of 'national security concerns'A US court has ruled narrowly that Binyam Mohamed, the British resident secretly rendered to Morocco by the CIA before being held in the Guantánamo Bay prison camp for four years, cannot sue over his alleged torture in over

Asad Qureshi was working on a Channel 4 documentary in March when he was taken by the Taliban in North WaziristanA British journalist held hostage by the Taliban in Pakistan's tribal belt for more than five months, has been released, the British high commission in Islamabad has announced.Asad Qureshi was working on a documentary about militancy in

The departure of Britain's special envoy reflects a loss of momentum behind political and diplomatic efforts to end the warThis is the second time Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles's departure as the UK's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan has been announced. On the first occasion, back in June, he informed the new foreign secretary, Wil

Deputy prime minister warns that spending cuts will have an 'uneven' effect across the country, but says the government is 'laying the building blocks' to rebalance the economyNick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, warned today the economic recovery would be "choppy" and "uneven" because of the way spending cuts will hit different parts of

Clegg says police are entitled to 'ask questions' about whether Andy Coulson, No 10's director of communications, knew of phone hacking when he was News of the World editorThe deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, today urged the police to probe new phone-hacking allegations surrounding No 10 communications chief, Andy Coulson, as another News of t

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A British-Pakistani journalist abducted by suspected Islamist militants in Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun tribal areas in March, has been freed, the British High Commission said Thursday.

LONDON (AP) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron has paid tribute to his father, who suffered a stroke and died on a vacation in France.

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (Reuters) - A large blast hit near a market in the city of Vladikavkaz in Russia's restive North Caucasus on Thursday, killing at least four people, Russian news agencies reported.

A large blast hit near a market in the city of Vladikavkaz in Russia’s restive North Caucasus on Thursday, killing at least four people, Russian news agencies reported.

The Japanese finance minister has raised concerns about China’s recent sharp increase in puchases of Japanese government bonds, highlighting nervousness about its impact on the strengthening yen

Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar says his fighters are close to victory in driving foreign forces out of Afghanistan, defying claims of progress against the militants by the commander of US and Nato forces

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A large explosion hit a market in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz on Thursday, Russian news agencies reported.

A new shopping centre is coming to the City. What services might it offer its well-heeled clientele?

From Jennifer Thompson to Belle de Jour, attitudes about breeding and education have polluted the prostitution debateSo what turns a middle-class public schoolgirl into a £1,200-a-night escort? That's what the Daily Mail wanted to know when Jennifer Thompson made her large claims about Wayne Rooney. I couldn't at first work out the question …

One New Change may rebrand London's financial district as a place to go for a day outAt first glance it looks like a big blob next to one of the capital's most elegant landmarks. Seen from the back, it comes close to resembling the architect's inspiration: a US stealth bomber.But regardless of what it looks like, planners hope that this newly er

MPC likely to deliver 18th consecutive interest rate hold at 0.5% and maintain QE at £200bnSigns of a weakening recovery are expected to see the Bank of England deliver its 18th consecutive decision to hold interest rates today.The Bank's policymakers will give their latest verdict at noon as recent economic indicators led to fears of a double di

Rolling coverage of the day's developments from Westminster and beyond8.21am: MPs will - briefly - debate the News of the World phone hacking affair today and there are two stories in this morning's papers that will make uncomfortable reading for Andy Coulson. In the Guardian Nick Davies says another former News of the World journalist has come f

Global market overview: Stocks rebound in Asia as eurozone worries recede and investors take relief from US Beige Book, while yen continues to hover near record highs.

Despite death of nine-year-old Cerys Potter in July, rafts on Dalaman river still taking perilous risks, investigation revealsHundreds of British tourists are risking their lives on a perilous stretch of river in Turkey where white-water rafts are being overloaded with passengers and intentionally capsized.An investigation into rafting on the Dalam

Patrick Diamond, who wrote 2010 election manifesto, urges party to reach out to Lib Dem voters to get back into powerThe man who wrote Labour's 2010 general election manifesto today calls on the party to reach out to disillusioned Liberal Democrat voters in order to get back into government.Patrick Diamond, who worked inside Downing Street in the

The scale of Pakistan's flood crisis is worse than the 2004 tsunami, senior UN sources said on Monday. An estimated 15 million people have now been…

Speaker paves way for standards and privileges committee to question top News International figures over scandalThe net was tightening round News International last night after the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, paved the way for parliament's most powerful cross-party committee to investigate the phone-hacking scandal.As a new opini

Revelations so far revealed about the News of the World phone-hacking scandal are only the tip of the iceberg (Report, 7 September). Surely the most compelling reason for having a fresh investigation into the scandal relates to the vast bank of information the News of the World and its owner News International holds on the many victims of the hacki

Incident involving airliner with 232 passengers on board forces air traffic control to introduce stricter safety procedures in areaA near miss involving two planes, one carrying 232 passengers, has forced air traffic controllers to introduce strict safety procedures to prevent the risk of a mid-air collision at a potential blackspot over east Londo

The constitution could not be clearer: the illegal monitoring of MPs is an extremely grave offenceImagine the boot on the other foot. Imagine a prime minister or an MP, infuriated by repeated press leaks or investigations, trying to find out the identity of a journalist's source. A good place to start would be their mobile phone records. Who had t

Sotheby's to auction Audubon's Birds of America and Shakespeare's First Folio from estate of late Lord HeskethBy any standards they form part of a truly extraordinary library: a rare copy of the world's most expensive book, perhaps the most important book in English literature, a fascinating cache of letters from Elizabeth I to the jailor of M

Concerns raised over 'lack of transparency' surrounding pay, but Elms cites flexibility and freedom as advantagesA headteacher who was criticised for being paid more than £240,000 last year has defended controversial plans to convert his primary school to academy status.When parents discovered in July that Mark Elms' pay package had reached alm

Global market overview: Stocks rebound in Asia as Eurozone worries recede and investors take relief from US Beige Book, while yen retreats from record highs.

Worldwide condemnation has intensified of a Florida priest’s plan to burn copies of the Koran as Afghanistan steels itself for a potentially violent backlash

The government sought to tone down the debate over controversial remarks by a central bank official about Jews and Muslims.