Outrage over Sun's Reeva Steenkamp front page
The Sun stoked outrage over its treatment of women today after editors put a picture of murdered model Reeva Steenkamp in swimwear on its front page.
View ArticleCriminalising dog fights: MPs demand harsh guide dog protections
Attacks on guide dogs should be treated with the same severity as attacks on people, according to an influential committee of MPs.
View ArticleAnti-social behaviour laws: The new village stocks?
Anti-social behaviour orders "must not become a modern pillory or stocks", an influential committee of MPs warned today.
View ArticleChaos at the heart of government: Is the Treasury fit for purpose?
A damning new report on the performance of the Treasury has found its own accounts are "impenetrable" and it cannot explain the results of £375 billion spent in quantitative easing.
View ArticleHorse meat test: We're all clear... kind of
Food suppliers are releasing information about possible contamination of their ready-meals, with most of the results coming in negative.
View ArticleMP Dorries faces expenses probe
Controversial Tory MP Nadine Dorries is facing an investigation into her expenses claim by the parliamentary expenses watchdog.
View ArticleNadine Dorries in expenses investigation
Controversial Tory MP Nadine Dorries will be investigated for her expenses claims, according to the parliamentary watchdog.
View ArticleCameron may fly in to Shell India tax row
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil company Royal Dutch/Shell has asked the British government to raise the subject of a tax dispute with India during Prime Minister David Cameron's visit there next week, according...
View ArticleMP Dorries investigated over expenses
Outspoken MP Nadine Dorries is under investigation by a parliamentary watchdog over her expenses claims, the body said Friday.
View ArticleOsborne: Don't use currencies for economic warfare
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, said on Saturday that the Group of 20 would state its opposition to competitive currency devaluations. "The G7 made a very clear...
View ArticleG20 defuses talk of "currency war", no accord on debt
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Group of 20 nations declared on Saturday there would be no 'currency war' and deferred plans to set new debt-cutting targets in an indication of concern about the fragile state...
View ArticleBritain pours cold water on RBS reports
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's finance minister George Osborne on Saturday dismissed newspaper reports the government was planning to give away its stake in state-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland by...
View ArticleNadine Dorries' Expenses To Be Investigated
Controversial Conservative MP Nadine Dorries is facing an investigation into her expenses claims by the parliamentary expenses watchdog.
View ArticleLabour party proposes mansion tax to help low earners
LONDON (Reuters) - The leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party called on Thursday for a tax on expensive homes to fund a new lower-income tax band to help the country's lowest earners. Setting out...
View ArticleAnalysis - Rise of Islamists frays strategic UAE-Egyptian relations
DUBAI (Reuters) - Days before his overthrow, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak received a senior visitor from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of several Gulf monarchies long supportive of the most...
View ArticleCypriot conservative chief leads grabs commanding lead - exit poll
ATHENS (Reuters) - Cypriot conservative leader Nicos Anastasiades has grabbed a strong lead in Sunday's presidential election and may have secured enough support to avoid a run-off, an exit poll by the...
View ArticlePope, near abdication, says pray "for me and next pope"
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict asked the faithful to pray for him and for the next pope, in his penultimate Sunday address to a crowded St. Peter's Square before becoming the first pontiff in...
View ArticleMiliband promotes 'mansion tax'
Ed Miliband has insisted that Labour is the "only alternative" to the coalition Government as he joined his by-election campaigners in Eastleigh.
View ArticleHelicopter scandal may cloud Cameron's India trip
British Prime Minister David Cameron heads to India next week with an extensive trade delegation for a visit clouded by a corruption scandal over British-built helicopters.
View ArticleComic Relief: PM Stars In One Direction Video
David Cameron is to make a "cameo" appearance in a Comic Relief music video with teen heartthrobs One Direction.
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