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Cameron urges Israeli calm on Iran

British Prime Minister David Cameron cautioned Israel on Tuesday against military action against Iran, saying diplomatic pressure could still halt the Islamic republic's disputed nuclear programme.

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'Fight division': Clegg stakes out pro-European position

Nick Clegg will set out his pro-European credentials tonight, in a Hague speech aiming to boost continental cooperation despite the eurozone crisis.

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Call to clamp down on debt products

Tougher action is needed to clamp down on "opaque and poorly regulated" commercial debt management companies and payday lenders, a report from MPs has urged.

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Insight - Japan missed tsunami wake-up call for change

TOKYO (Reuters) - Three months after Japan's March 11 triple disaster, a long-time expert on the country arrived in Tokyo to research a book he intended to entitle "Rebirth of a Nation." Months later,...

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China pulls workers from Syria, seeks Libya compensation

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is bringing workers home from Syria, its Commerce Minister said on Wednesday, in an apparent attempt to avoid a repeat of last year's eleventh-hour rescue of Chinese nationals...

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Suicide bomber kills 5 police in Russia's Dagestan

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A female suicide bomber has killed at least five policemen by blowing herself up at a traffic police post in the restive Dagestan region of southern Russia. The woman detonated her...

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Government should fight for Typhoon deal

Mark Menzies MP calls on the government to continue its support in securing the sale of Typhoons to India.

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Maude: Gay marriage will make us electable

Pushing ahead with gay marriage is the best way to make the Conservative party acceptable to metropolitan voters, Francis Maude will say today.

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PM defends tax credits time limit

David Cameron has been forced to defend the Government's plan to make parents work longer before they can receive tax credits.

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Leaders unmoving over Afghan exit after soldier deaths

Britain is making progress in Afghanistan, David Cameron has insisted, after news of the feared deaths of six UK soldiers.

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Queen in nation's heart, says PM

The Queen has served the country with "unerring grace, dignity and decency", Prime Minister David Cameron said in a parliamentary speech to mark the monarch's Diamond Jubilee.

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Fuel tax campaigners lobby MPs

Hundreds of protesters have braved heavy rain to take their campaign for fuel duty cuts to Parliament.

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Police chiefs 'tried to shut probe'

Two top Scotland Yard officers tried to shut down their force's investigation into Whitehall leaks to Tory MP Damian Green, the Leveson Inquiry has heard.

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MPs give rating agencies a bumpy ride

LONDON (Reuters) - Credit rating agencies were given a rough ride by politicians on Wednesday after refusing to apologise properly for "blunders" that sowed some of the seeds of the financial crisis....

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Stalking to be criminal offence

Stalking is to be made a specific criminal offence, David Cameron has announced, as he promised new protection for the victims of this "abhorrent" crime.

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MPs call for eurozone collapse plan

Ministers should draw up plans to deal with a collapse of the eurozone "as a matter of urgency", a high-powered committee of MPs and peers has warned.

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Berlin berates Athens for bureaucracy stopping investment - report

BERLIN (Reuters) - Athens' failure to accept Germany's help on reducing bureaucracy and boosting private investment is disappointing, German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler was cited as saying by a...

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Families of Munich dead want IOC to remember 1972 tragedy

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Forty years after 11 Israelis were killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Games, the families of the dead are urging the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to organise...

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UK 'Unprepared' For Key Security Threats

The UK is unprepared for key threats to national security, according to a committee of Lords and MPs.

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Nigeria, South Africa feud over yellow fever jabs

ABUJA (Reuters) - South Africa and Nigeria are embroiled in a diplomatic spat after the authorities at Johannesburg airport deported 125 Nigerians, alleging their yellow fever vaccination certificates...

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