League says delaying sending more monitors to Syria
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Arab League is delaying sending more monitors to Syria after this week's attack on an observer team in the port city of Latakia in which 11 observers were lightly injured, a...
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Many Myanmar political prisoners to be freed - officials
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar will free many prominent political activists on Friday in an amnesty for 651 inmates, prison officials said, as one of the world's most reclusive states continues to open up...
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Worst teachers face sack within a term
Headteachers will find it much easier to get rid of poorly performing teachers under a shakeup of rules from Michael Gove.
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Coalition open to child benefit change
March's Budget could see controversial child benefit measures which punish single families lifted by the coalition.
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Salmond scorns Westminster 'bullying'
Scottish first minister Alex Salmond has dismissed growing pressure from Westminster as "bullying".
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Salmond offers talks on referendum
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has said he is ready to meet Prime Minister David Cameron "in Edinburgh, in London or wherever" to discuss the way forward for a referendum on independence.
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Analysis - Is Marine desecration video a new Abu Ghraib?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A video appearing to show U.S. Marines urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters promises to become an enduring memory of the Afghan war and is already drawing sharp...
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Afghan academy seeks to ease pain of war with music
KABUL (Reuters) - A cacophony ranging from Asian string instruments to the delicate cadences of classical piano pours out of a two-storey building in central Kabul. Here, at Afghanistan's sole music...
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Lloyds CEO gives up £2.4 million bonus
LONDON (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group Chief Executive Antonio Horta-Osorio has waived his bonus for 2011 after taking two months off to recover from fatigue. He said his decision reflected a poor...
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Scotland's Salmond offers talks with Cameron
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond on Friday invited British Prime Minister David Cameron to hold talks, in an apparent bid to defuse a bitter row over an independence referendum.
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Kinnock condemns Labour 'cowards'
Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock has lashed out at "cowards" within the party over criticism of Ed Miliband's performance.
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Obama's olive branch to Iran turned into sanctions hammer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama entered the White House in 2009 carrying an olive branch for Iran, determined to show the world that Washington would not play the villain in a...
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Marines inch toward charges over desecration video
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Marine Corps took a first, formal step on Friday toward possible charges against four Marines who, in a widely circulated video, appear to be urinating on the bodies of...
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Syrian tanks attack town amid civil war warning
AMMAN (Reuters) - Unrest in Syria cost at least 15 lives on Friday and troops backed by tanks attacked Zabadani, a town near the border with Lebanon, an opposition leader said, in the first big...
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Cameron warns of world action if Hormuz shut
Prime Minister David Cameron warned that the "whole world" would take action if Iran closed the strategic Strait of Hormuz, in a television interview during a visit to Saudi Arabia on Friday.
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Miliband brushes off criticism with promise to change Labour
Ed Miliband has downplayed criticism of his leadership, saying he is achieving something "big" in his project to reform the Labour party.
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Miliband 'winning battle of ideas'
Ed Miliband claims he is "winning the battle of ideas" but said it was a "hard process" to change the Labour Party.
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The Darling gamble: 'Sterling is Scotland's mini-eurozone'
Alistair Darling has laid out the extent of the challenges facing an independent Scotland, arguing that maintaining sterling would be like creating a mini-eurozone.
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Salmond accused of police threat over referendum
Alex Salmond threatened to use police to sabotage any attempt at an early referendum on Scottish independence, according to reports.
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Cameron and Salmond set for talks
David Cameron is to meet Alex Salmond to discuss plans for a referendum on Scottish independence, it has been announced.
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