Foreign aid budget: It's time to shut down the ministry of foreign aid

When public spending is being cut, people think it is wrong for the overseas aid budget to be increased by around one third.

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Ann Widdecombe snubbed because she voted for fox hunting ban

Supporters of the redoubtable Ann Widdecombe have been baffled as to why she was passed over for a peerage after she stood down as an MP.

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Injunctions: Does your missus know you're here XXXXX XXXXX?

Ryan Giggs' injunction was the worse kept secret in Britain, yet judges still think reporting restrictions are justified in order to protect an individual’s privacy.

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Super-injunction celebrities urged to confess and come clean

Exposed as a liar the former Cabinet minister attempted to sue a paper for libel and cover up his wrongs, but he learnt the hard way this only exacerbated the matter

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Schoolboy hitman Santre Sanchez Gayle, 15, convicted of murder

Santre Sanchez Gayle (pictured) was today jailed for life for the murder of Gulistan Subasi in East London in March last year.

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Grieving family of miner killed by lung disease awarded just 22 PENCE compensation - while his lawyers pocket �2,000

The grieving relatives from Rhondda, South Wales, were handed the payout under the Government scheme for former pit men struck down by lung disease.

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'Boss' of Philadelphia mob Joseph 'Uncle Joe' Ligambi and underboss Joseph 'Mousie' Massimino arrested

Alleged Philadelphia mob leader Joseph 'Uncle Joe' Ligambi and 12 others are said to have ran illegal gambling operations and charged exorbitant interest on loans.

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'Whites suffer more racism than blacks': Study shows white people believe they are more discriminated against

Sociologists from Harvard and Tufts asked 209 white and 208 black men and women to rate 'racism' against both ethnic groups since the 1950s on a scale of one to 10.

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Triple tragedy for couple as their two children are diagnosed with same fatal condition that killed their three-year-old sister

A couple from Grimsby who lost their three-year-old daughter must say goodbye to their other two children after they were diagnosed with the same fatal disorder.

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Police officer to face manslaughter charges over death of G20 riot victim Ian Tomlinson

The Director of Public Prosecutions said there were grounds for PC Simon Harwood to face a trial after reviewing an inquest jury's unlawful killing verdict.

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Oscar-winning 'rape' composer Joseph Brooks owed $3.5 million and was about to lose house

Joseph Brooks was discovered in his apartment Sunday by a friend with whom he was supposed to meet for lunch.

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Burglar's 'Human Rights' bid to get out of jail - because he claims his five children will suffer without him

Wayne Bishop, from Nottingham, has argued that his eight-month sentence for burglary has a 'disproportionate' effect on his five young children, who he cares for five nights a week.

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Four police officers to face probe over failure to stop gang terrorising mother who killed herself and her disabled daughter

Fiona Pilkington, 38, torched her Austin Maestro car in a lay-by near her home in Barwell, Leicestershire, while she and her 18-year-old disabled daughter Francecca sat inside.

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Public borrowing figures for April hit �10bn, making them the worst on record

Public borrowing, excluding financial interventions such as bank bail-outs, hit �10 billion, compared with �7.3 billion the previous year, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

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Homeless man in Miami uses empty beer boxes in board that FLIPS between begging messages

The beggar with with missing teeth and grey stubble grins widely as he asks for change while flashing the ingenious board to passers-by in Downtown Miami.

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What's your education worth? New study puts a price on college majors

Based on first-of-its-kind Census data, analysis of 171 majors shows that various undergraduate majors can lead to significantly different median wages.

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Cost of mortgages and loans could rise as banks face prospect of credit ratings being downgraded

Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland are two of the 14 institutions put under review by top ratings agency Moody's as Government withdraws bailout guarantees.

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Ryan Giggs affair: Piers Morgan and Dom Joly face huge legal bills for breaking injunction

Piers Morgan (pictured), Dom Joly, Toby Young and Boy George were among the 75,000 Twitter users who identified the footballer before his name was mentioned in parliament.

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Woman survives bear attack after being confronted by beast in own home

Jacqueline Berghorn was outside her home with her dog in Center Harbour, New Hampshire, when she came face-to-face with the 180lb bear in her back garden.

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Video of puppy growing to adult in 40 seconds becomes cute YouTube hit

The YouTube clip shows pictures on the same spot of Dunder the German Shepherd over a period of ten months and has become an Internet sensation.

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Flying bacteria to blame for bad weather, scientists claim after finding microbes in hailstones

The discovery suggests that airborne microbes play a leading role not just in hail storms, but other weather events.

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iPalm: Handy gadget that lets you control your phone remotely by tapping your palm

The technology uses light sensors to monitor where a user moves their hand on their palm and presses the screen on the phone accordingly.

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More than 20,000 women aged under 25 had their SECOND abortion last year, shock figures show

A third of all terminations are carried out on patients who have had at least one already.

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Ash cloud 2011: Holiday flights on knife edge as Met office warns cloud could blanket Britain

A provisional five-day forecast by the Met Office showed a dense layer of ash over the entire country on Friday – the start of the Whitsun bank holiday weekend.

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Mark Bruton-Young acquitted of murdering his baby as he 'suffered from post-natal depression'

Architect Mark Bruton-Young posed smiling with his wife, who has stood by him throughout, after being found not guilty of murdering their baby Harriet.

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Conman who made millions by charging pensioners �1,500 for a �3 smoke alarm

Derek Hepple deliberately targeted pensioners and persuaded them to hand over huge sums of cash to his security firm making �120,000 from his scam.

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Ryan Giggs' wife Stacey shows strain of super-injunction leaving family home

Giggs played the opening 30 minutes of the match at Old Trafford alongside current and former Manchester United stars, including David Beckham.

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Ken Clarke meets sex attack victim who rubbished his sentencing proposals live on radio

Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke, who sparked an uproar by suggesting some rapes were more serious than others, has met with a sex attack victim.

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'Possessed' teenager who stabbed her own mother five times is allowed to walk free after judge accepts she 'has strong spiritual beliefs'

Lorraine Mbulawa, 20, donned dark clothes, gloves and a home-made balaclava and attacked her mother with a kitchen knife in Braunstone Firth, Leicester.

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Church doubles congregation by hiring blonde Reverend Stephanie Nadarajah, 29

Reverend Stephanie Nadarajah took up the post at St Mary the Virgin Church in Caterham, Surrey, at the age of just 29 after giving up a job as an NHS boss.

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Nick Clegg's fury as Lord Ashcroft is given a job as defence adviser

The Deputy Prime Minister objected to the appointment of the peer and former Conservative Party chairman in a tense face-to-face meeting.

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Brits are happier and wealthier than European counterparts....but we're also fatter and frightened of going out after dark

Despite the economic gloom, Britons are happier with their lives, working shorter hours and earning more than many of their counterparts in the industrialised world.

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MAX HASTINGS: Just one more stop for Obama's re-election bandwagon

Far more American TV viewers have thrilled to the spectacle of their chief executive meeting William and Kate at Buckingham Palace than David Cameron.

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BA pilot who bludgeoned wife to death over pre-nup agreement is cleared of her murder

Robert Brown, 47, bludgeoned millionairess Joanna to death with a claw hammer in their sprawling family home in Ascot, Berkshire, before burying her body in Windsor Great Park.

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Weak teachers will be removed from classrooms in just one term as heads to get new sacking powers

Education Secretary Michael Gove yesterday unveiled proposals to enable heads to axe bad teachers within a term, rather than the current average of more than a year.

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David Cameron's Big Society Tsar Lord Wei quits just days after relaunch

Lord Wei, who took up his post when the coalition came to power, is giving up his job as an unpaid adviser to the Prime Minister.

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ANDREW ALEXANDER: Our lions can roar, but why didn't they bite?

How brave are our soldiers? It seems a silly question. Yet you have to wonder when you consider the recently released letter from Major-General Laurie to the Iraq Inquiry.

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No. 10 fury as Baroness Ashton seeks millions more for her Euro empire

Ministers are furious that the Labour peer wants a �427million budget at a time when national foreign ministries are having their funds slashed.

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More than 1,000 complaints over 'data protection breaches' by banks

The report revealed a number of examples of apparent failures, leaving the banks facing a potential loss of customers' trust.

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Obama backs Britain's role in 'damaging' Libyan leader

In an address to Parliament the U.S. President will say Gaddafi ‘is being damaged’ thanks to British and American military action.

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Stand up for MPs' rights, Bercow told, as Speaker prepares to meet senior judges over constitutional crisis

The Commons Speaker told the MP John Hemming that he ‘strongly deprecates the abuse of Parliamentary privilege to flout a (court) order or score a particular point.’

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How a brisk walk could hold prostate cancer back

But the benefits are gained only by men who walk briskly, rather than at an easy pace, the scientists say.

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Barack Obama and David Cameron team up as table tennis partners

In their own version of ping pong diplomacy, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron took on two schoolboys at table tennis - and spectacularly lost.

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Kathy Witterick and David Stocker are raising a 'genderless baby'

Whether this baby is a boy or girl is, the parents say, a secret. Kathy Witterick and husband David Stocker, from Toronto, are leaving the decision up to him - or her.

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Gordon Ramsay's father-in-law loses privacy bid over love children by a mistress

Christopher Hutcheson launched a High Court battle in the hope of getting a draconian injunction surrounding his secret family.

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The Queen treats the Obamas to a state banquet and invites a few of their Hollywood friends

The star-studded banquet saw 171 guests arrive, including Tom Hanks, Kevin Spacey and Tim Burton, who dined on lamb, roast potatoes and vanilla Charlotte.

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wants to 'fight' law banning kids under 13 joining site Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

At present, those under 13 are banned from Mark Zuckerberg’s site in Britain under a voluntary ‘good practice’ code.

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iPad2 factory explosion: Fire at building in China kills two workers

A blast rocked a compound at the building in southwest China earlier this evening, sending dozens of workers fleeing into the streets as flames engulfed the electronics inside.

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Obama and Netanyahu meet amid disagreement over Israel-Palestine border

After a tense meeting, the Israeli leader said he would make some concessions but that Israel would not go back to the lines from decades earlier, as Obama had proposed a day earlier.

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Pension age 'U-turn to help 1/2m women': Lib Dems battle to cushion retirement reforms

Senior Lib Dems are understood to be determined to reverse the plans, which will leave as many as 500,000 women in their 50s working for up to two years longer.

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