POLITICS

The prime minister has announced a major breakthrough with Hinkley nuclear power station - but rows over energy industry are taking shine off deal.

Video of explosion that killed six people in Volgograd emerges online.

CCTV footage shows soldiers carrying full shopping bags during al-Shabaab siege that killed 67.

Blast on bus in central Russian city also wounded 20 people.

The 'Halal Sex Shop' website to sell sex products in accordance with religious rules

Yamamoto Corporation comes up with swimwear and underwear to beat gamma and beta radiation.

China's booming arms sales underpinned by discount model and Beijing's willingness to sell weapons to risky recipients.

Hamas claims tunnel discovered by IDF troops was designed to free prisoners and capture Israelis.

Moscow to order service providers to install monitoring devices capable of collecting personal data.

Marine le Pen's far-right party threatens legal action against minister who had been compared to an ape.

US spy agency 'snooped' on France and Mexico's Felipe Calderon.

Three people including eight-year-old girl killed in random attack during Cairo wedding.

Scribes told to take on US, Japan, Philippines and Vietnam, and praise Russia.

By moving Liberal Democrat policy on free schools closer to Labour's, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has exposed the contradiction in his own election strategy.

IAF planes took to skies in Gujarat region after radars detected flying objects.

Two Turkish pilots and nine Lebanese Shiite pilgrims reach home as authorities strike deal over release.

Middle-Eastern and East Asian companies agree to operate joint facilities in North Korea's Kaesong.

Nine Lebanese Shiite pilgrims held captive for one year are on their way home, having arrived in southern Turkey.

'Wear a jumper' tip from Number 10 fails to help people struggling with cost of living, says food bank.

Former Conservative MP retracts claim that Mitchell used "toxic" word

US paper commissioned then refused to publish documentary on Israel extremism.

On 04 October 2013, the man some refer to as Vietnam's "Red Napoleon", Senior General Vo Nguyen Giap, died at the Central Military Hospital in Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, at the age of 102. General Giap's grand state funeral came to a finale on 13 October and definitely marks that oft used phrase "the end of an era", not least because the General managed to outlive his contemporaries in power, civil and military, friend and foe alike.

Former Tory minister Andrew MItchell found who his friends were when Plebgate erupted. And there just weren't enough of them.

Improbable role model for neo-Nazi party is Turkey's Islamist leader who was in prison for religious reasons

Russian space-explorers to be given bamboo clothing as it is lighter and more durable.

Former Conservative Cabinet minister claims Michell used the word "pleb" but not at Downing Street gates.

Anne-Sophie Leclere, mayoral candidate for the Ardennes city of Rethel, posted racist picture on Facebook

Saudi Arabia's election to the two-year UNSC membership had sparked condemnation from rights groups.

Somalian-born Norwegian Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow named as suspect in the attack that killed at least 67.