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The suspension and cancellation of a number of key armoured vehicle projects since the 1998 defence review has resulted in the Armed Forces ...

A dishevelled Dominique Strauss-Kahn is taken into police custody.

Burglar with a cleanliness obsession is spared jail because he'd find it too dirty. The 20-year-old was allowed to walk free from court ...

US government lawyers are investigating reports that the former owner of a controversial private security firm has been hired to form a merc...

Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, is to be investigated by police over allegations that he allowed his wife Vicky Pryce to take speeding po...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the International Monetary Fund chief who allegedly sexually attacked a Manhattan hotel maid, has delayed appearing ...

Thanks to James Goldsmith, we were spared the financial death throes that Eurozone members such as Ireland are now experiencing. We can only...

British soldiers repeatedly came under attack from US forces in a series of 'friendly fire' incidents, according to Pentagon logs on...

I thought this deserved a wider audience. Mandelson's department of Business, Innovation & Skills wrote off £30m of public money wi...

  If you’ve read my previous posts,( HERE and HERE ), you’ll be aware I’m not to keen on these machines due to their high operation an...

Weather glorious. 35 deg C. Beer cold. Food good. What’s more to be said. Your Italian correspondent signing out. next update will b...

Only ten days prior to the blowout, Halliburton conveniently snapped up a giant marine firefighting corporation for $250.00 million. Persist...

The Angry Exile , upside down correspondent. A couple of nights ago the ABC's Foreign Correspondent program covered the legal use of ...

The Crsis report here

From ukws For those of you that have followed this blog and it's predecessor ukwebspider I must apologise for the distinct drop off in p...

The Liberal-Conservative coalition government have made good on their promise to release the full list of special advisers - including detai...

Of the 93 people who were infected by the potentially deadly 0157 strain of the bacterium, 28 will argue that Godstone Farm was negligen...

Phil Gormley, Chief Constable of Norfolk Police, told his 1,700 officers to tackle the county’s most serious problems – even if some crime f...

At least 16 people were killed when floodwater tore through a campsite in Arkansas, US officials have said. The flood also washed away rec...

It will likely surprise you but like a trolley car we are now locked into economic tracks that determine our financial destination. Unfortun...

David Cameron has been forced to abandon a visit to British troops in a frontline base amid fears that the Taliban were trying to bring down...

Thousands of people could be in line for compensation after they were illegally stopped and searched by police using controversial counter-t...

A newborn baby has been found abandoned in a village pub. The baby boy, who is less than a day old, was found in a bag at 11.15pm on Wedne...

Three Britons, including two female students, have been killed in a bus crash in South Africa, officials said. The executive mayor of Mbom...

Sport is to get a £50 million a year boost by 2012 from the National Lottery as part of reforms to try to secure a strong legacy from hostin...

Former defence secretary Geoff Hoon has described footage of hooded Iraqi prisoners being abused by a British soldier as "appalling...

A senior commander in the the Israeli military has stated that he believes that action taken by the Turkish government in protecting an upco...

As the global bankers’ plan to bring down the American and world’s economy continues (so that they can acquire as much of our wealth as poss...

Four American troops died today when a Black Hawk helicopter believed to be on a mission to rescue British soldiers was shot down in Afghani...

A father and daughter today denied attacking BBC investigative reporter Donal MacIntyre and his wife. Thugs set upon the couple in a wine...

  A week after his guns finally fell silent, thousands stopped to remember the victims of Derrick Bird. His murderous rampage across ...

Anyone seen Gordon?

Immigrants coming to Britain to marry or join their partner will soon be asked to take an English language test first. All non-European...

Another strike ballot of British Airways cabin crew will be held although their leaders are trying "very hard" to reach a settlem...

They held on, but only just. The courage of 16 Air Assault Brigade’s defence of the “platoon houses” is now the stuff of military folklore. ...

England remains a country of health and wealth divides, with those in the North likely to be poorer and live shorter lives more prone to ser...

Thousands of foreigners who want to marry a British person will have to pass an English test before being allowed to enter the country. Th...

He has been the Sir Alex Ferguson of British retailing — the man who turned a sleeping giant into a winner, the most feared and sometimes th...

Guess the British Attendees- click here to find out

DAVID CAMERON will today warn that Britain’s economic problems are “even worse than we thought”. more

The Dow closed the week sharply lower on Friday at 9932 against last weeks close of 10,136. The stock market had exhibited a tightening of i...

If US energy policy continues on its present path, legendary oilman T. Boone Pickens told Cramer on Friday, the price for a barrel of crude ...

The effects of peak oil, including high energy prices, will not be gentle, said Mr. Angelantoni, a Web designer whose company, Post Peak Liv...

Asian shares and the euro plummeted Monday as traders took their lead from a slumping Wall Street and worries that Hungary's public fina...

Basically what the world central banks are doing is increasing their money by devaluing it (printing more than it’s worth) and giving it to ...

Other presidents get the picture on paper currency. Obama should have his picture on food stamps. There are now 40 million Americans who cho...

BP’s latest oil spill response update for June 4th says the total amount of the dispersant used in the Gulf of Mexico more than 1,021,000 ga...

A powerful lobbying organisation representing agribusiness interests helped draft a key government report that has been attacked by environm...

As the economic crisis approaches the two-year point, it is apparent that “this time is different.” Few analysts believe that we are going t...

Crazed killer Derrick Bird's murky finances appeared to hold the key to why he launched a massacre that left 12 people dead. He was ap...

My column this week tries to address the question of whether Britain really deserves to be considered a “safe haven” destination for investo...

While most analysts and commentators in the Western world are working to affirm that the recovery progresses, Europe seems to live in a rela...

Most Americans know that the U.S. economy is in bad shape, but what most Americans don't know is how truly desperate the financial situa...

Police are searching for two teenage girls who have been missing for more than 48 hours. Friends Corrina Stirland, 15, and 14-year-old Reb...

We've got more CCTV cameras trained on us - four million and rising - than any other country on earth. And they never sleep. Britain...

We’re falling into a double-dip recession. The Labor Department reports this morning that the private sector added a measly 41,000 net new j...

Neeraj Chaudhary writes: With the mainstream media focusing on the country's leveling unemployment rate, improving retail sales, and nas...

Britain will enjoy the last day of a mini-heat wave today before showers move in for the weekend. Temperatures yesterday topped those in Rom...

The Rabbinical Council of Judea and Samaria issued a statement Thursday in which it said that the results of the incident in which Israel in...

"The present situation of the Korean peninsula is so grave that a war may break out any moment," Ri Jang Gon, North Korea's de...

Hey, Tea Party. A foreign navy boarded an unarmed ship flying the flag of a NATO member in international waters and shot dead an American ci...

With each passing day, the environmental horror being caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill becomes more apparent. Some of the most unique ...

Top historians, social and financial analysts, along with police bodies are all predicting that Europe and America are set to experience a s...

A growing reliance on imported food and other necessities is making First World nations such as the United Kingdom increasingly vulnerable t...

Labour's supposedly tough points-based immigration system actually led to huge increases in foreign workers and students cleared to live...

As recently as 2007, the EIA saw a rosy future of oil supplies increasing with demand. It predicted oil consumption would rise by 15 mbpd to...

A small band of hedge funds is now building up a series of sizeable bets on Britain defaulting. In the past few weeks, they have placed more...

Researchers from Chandigarh's Punjab University claim they have found the cause which could be the first step in reversing the decline: ...

Welfare has replaced the provider, "creating a glut of unemployed, unwanted, unmarriageable men." more