David Miliband says UK needs more time to shore up Afghan government The Afghan government could fall within weeks if Nato pulled out troops now, David Miliband warned today as he urged British opponents of the war to give the...
By Alan Beattie, the FT’s world trade editor Look, not my specialist subject, but here’s my eurocent’s-worth on the appointment of the Baroness High Representative and the Lord High Everything Else. (Incidentally, I’d have...
Retrospective looks at photojournalism 'legend' 20 November, 14:41 (ANSA) - A unique retrospective of work by Steve McCurry, one of the world's best known living photojournalists, has opened in Milan in a show specially...
Sher Mohammed Akhundzada the former governor of Afghanistan's Helmand province has revealed he turned thousands of his followers over to the Taliban after he was sacked from the job under pressure from British officials.
By forcing a flawed model of democracy on Afghans, the US has made Afghanistan less stable and less democratic The fiasco of the elections in Afghanistan has been widely lamented . Most laments focus on a single obvious fact:...
British forces will pull out of Germany for good, nearly 70 years after the Allied victory in World War Two, as part of a Tory defence "revolution" being drawn up by Dr Liam Fox. Liam Fox, the shadow defence secretary Photo:...
A network of ponds on Ministry of Defence land in Purbeck has been found to contain some of the rarest pond life in the country, including a caddis larva that has never before been recorded in Dorset and a number of nationally...
It is hard for international observers to grasp the political paralysis that grips the US, and that seriously threatens its ability to solve domestic problems and contribute to international problem solving. Indeed, America’s...
The bodies of two soldiers killed in Afghanistan have passed through the Wiltshire town of Wootton Bassett marking the 100th repatriation. The cortege conveyed army bomb disposal expert Cpl Loren Marlton-Thomas, 28, from Essex,...
Merrimack College has committed to help make college possible for children of Massachusetts soldiers who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The College has become the first higher education institution to match funds provided...