POLITICS

France's Interior minister Manuel Valls under fire for crackdown on illegal Roma migrants

The Labour party's campaign to put itself on the side of hard pressed families has seen new attacks on the big energy companies and payday loan firms.

Musician with links to mass killer Breivik to be tried for inciting racial hatred on the Internet.

String of bomb explosions rock Myanmar ahead of Southeast Asian Games.

NSA whistleblower's father Lon Snowden encourages son Edward to 'make sure true story comes out'.

New disclosure details how notorious al-Qaida operative who had unwittingly got away from CIA dragnet was tracked and executed in drone attack in Pakistan.

US Senate earlier agreed on last-minute deal to raise US debt ceiling and end deadlock.

France's anti-Europe Front National and Netherlands' xenophobe Freedom Party to join forces ahead of EU vote

Washington sources claim Republicans and Democrats have brokered 11th-hour truce to avert default and end months-long gridlock.

Pakutunkhwa province's minister of law Israullah Gandpur among eight killed by suicide blast.

Federal intelligence officials join probe as Indian authorities' concerns increase.

Authorities discuss flying body of former SS captain to Germany as Italy commemorates victims of Holocaust.

The so-called "Plebgate" affair is marked by allegations of police fabrications and coverups in an attempt to discredit a government minister. Now even the Prime Minister has spoken out.

Another recession, a fall in the value of dollar, rising funding woes for banks, a global market crash -- all these and more could be the fallout of a US default.

The Greek parliament has lifted immunity from prosecution on six neo-Nazi Golden Dawn MPs

Russia's homophobia problem is assuming ever more nightmarish proportions, says Larry Poltavtsev.

A Russian court on Wednesday (October 16) upheld the theft conviction against opposition leader Alexei Navalny but suspended his five-year prison sentence, meaning the prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin will not be jailed.

Kirov court upheld conviction for embezzlement but suspends five-year prison sentence

Prisoners find out if Supreme Court backs them in legal fight to vote in elections

Onno Elderenbosch, senior assistant to the Dutch ambassador, attacked amid mounting diplomatic tension between Moscow and The Hague.

YouGov poll says London Mayor could win more crucial seats in London than Cameron.

1200 Muslim migrant workers in Biryulyovo district have been held after murder of ethnic Russian Yegor Shcherbakov.

Israel has granted only 4 asylum seekers refugee status in 2013.

Government criticised for backtracking on old age care cost promise.

'Cautious optimism' over talks voiced by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.

Society of St. Pius X, whose members include Holocaust denier Richard Williamson, holds Priebke's funeral rite in Albano Laziale.

David Cameron needs European Council concessions to placate backbench rebels.

Scientists confirmed traces of polonium-210 found on former Palestine leader's clothes after body was exhumed in 2012.

Ji Zhongxing's bomb stunt at Beijing international airport lands him in jail.