POLITICS

Political Editor Nick Assinder casts a beady eye over the political machinations of the Westminster week.

Pyongyang media give North Korea's young dictator same appellation as his predecessor.

Chancellor's attempt to lay budget trap for Labour appears to cause collateral damage to LibDems.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Bono, Naomi Campbell and Jacob Zuma among people who paid tribute to anti-apartheid icon at Pretoria Union Buildings

India's top court declares homosexuality illegal, upholding 153-year old colonial law.

Royal Association for Deaf People says performance 'was one of the most public mockeries of deaf people and sign language we've ever seen'.

First Jesuit Pope is Time choice for prestigious annual title, beating Edward Snowden and Edie Windsor.

French Paratroopers Nicolas Vokaer and Antoine Le Quinio killed in Central African Republic as President Hollande visits

Farmers will block roads in 26 provinces to pressurize the government to pay the money due to farmers.

Tory successor says Thatcher wrong to oppose strong sanctions against South Africa's apartheid regime.

Former CIA chief lets slip top-secret data and mafia comment to Zero Dark Thirty writer Mark Boal.

Danish PM who broke the "curse of Kinnock" made splash at Nelson Mandela's memorial

India's Supreme Court on Wednesday (December 11) threw out a 2009 ruling by a lower court that had decriminalised gay sex, in a major setback for the cause of gay rights in the world's largest democracy.

Uruguay legalises sale and consumption of marijuana to battle illegal trafficking.

The US government was due to run out of cash on 15 January.

India's highest court makes consensual sexual encounter between adults of same gender illegal.

John Kerry and Catherine Ashton condemn police action as security forces deny dispersing protest camp.

The memorial service saw Prime ministers and Presidents pay tribute to the global icon.

Sunglasses senator replaced image of Muhammad Ali with himself to claim kinship with anti-apartheid hero.

World leaders gather in Soweto, Johannesburg, to pay tribute to anti-apartheid hero.

Jordan breaks promise to foreign secretary William Hague that judges will be civilians.

Members of defunct Cartel La Familia Michoacana left message on bodies.

There is no one quite like Madiba, President Jacob Zuma tells Johannesburg's FNB Stadium

Prime minister's reluctance to be clear about MPs' huge pay rise gives Labour leader a golden opportunity.

We will never see the likes of Nelson Mandela again, US president tells Johannesburg crowd.

Historic moment of rapprochment between two erstwhile enemies at memorial to celebrate life of Mandela.

Park Geun-hye warns that removal of Jang Song-thaek will push Pyongyang closer to instability.

South Africa president heckled as 'substitute' at Johannesburg's First National Bank Stadium.

Somali rape victim confined to home for six months while journalists who reported the story are jailed.