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David Robertson and Michael Evans The Ministry of Defence has been criticised for spending £149 million on an “urgent” upgrade to 900 tanks that can still only be used for training. The armoured vehicles will be used in Canada...
It's cute and it's cuddly. And in 30 years, campaigners say, the koala will be extinct. But this emblematic animal has a curious history – and its fate is mired in politics When south-eastern Australia was consumed by bushfires...
The digital economy bill is misnamed. A more honest title for the legislation, recently introduced in the Lords , would be the copyright protection and punishment bill. It is less about creating the digital businesses of the...
Vladimir Putin has undiplomatically poked fun at the Georgian leader, Mikheil Saakashvili, saying that it may not be safe to wear a tie around him. Vladimir Putin and the Ukranian prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, in Yalta,...
Hard cash, not increased 'profile', is what drives the likes of Joe Bugner and Jimmy White to share the jungle with celebrity orbs Roy Harper wrote a lovely elegiac song called When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease, lamenting...
Critics call it a 'toothless watchdog' – and even its supporters admit it is the 'least worst option'. The Press Complaints Commission and its chair, Lady Buscombe, came under fire last week from MPs, lawyers, this paper's...
I have no idea how he would have come across on the GMTV sofa, but sometimes I think all our political problems could be solved if the man being lined up to be our next Foreign Secretary was not Lord Mandelson but Lord Palmerston.
KIEV, November 23 (RIA Novosti) - An election observation mission from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will start on Monday monitoring the presidential election campaign in Ukraine. The OSCE...
China and North Korea are allies, but China has other interests in play too Chinese and North Korean defence chiefs have pledged to strengthen their long-standing military alliance. The Chinese Defence Minister, Liang Guanglie,...
Kigalia wants allowances made for how far it's come since the genocide By Daniel Howden, Africa Correspondent REUTERS Refugees crossing the border into Tanzania in 1994 fleeing the violence in which hundreds of thousands died...
