POLITICS

Will the Sun back Nigel Farage? Speculation grows as columnist Gaunt and reporter McMullan join party.

China new President Xi Jinping is to visit Tanzania, Congo and South Africa on his first official trip overseas.

Warning issued by Islamic militant Adnan Rasheed, who once tried to assassinate Musharraf.

Jordan's King Abdullah says refugee influx has caused enormous pressure on economy.

Al-Qaida-linked organisation had taken Warren Rodwell 15 months ago.

WPP group creative team uploaded offensive advert mocking Italy's ex-PM to promote Ford Figo.

Four-minute video entitled A Short, Three-Day War has been released on government and propaganda YouTube channel Uriminzokkiri.

Beppe the Clown's Five Star Movement is like Hitler says Riccardo Pacifici, head of Rome's Jewish Community.

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has announced that centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani has a mandate to explore formnig a government.

Three years after Israeli marines boarded aid ship, resulting in deaths of nine Turkish activists, Netanyahu apologises.

Buddhist monasteries in Burma distributing anti-Muslim leaflets for months.

Terminator Tango turns himself in at US embassy in Kigali and is taken to The Hague for war crimes trial.

US president visits graves of Theodor Herzl and Yitzhak Rabin before heading to Jordan.

Return follows assurances from India's foreign minister Salman Khurshid.

Ex-French President Nicolas Sarkozy was placed under formal investigation on Thursday for "abuse of weakness" in a 2007 party funding case involving elderly L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, the public prosecutor said.

Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti killed in Iman mosque blast.

Sarkozy accused of manipulating L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt to get presidential campaign funds.

Several hundred protesters, many of them bank employees, rallied outside parliament on Thursday (March 21st) after rumours that the island's second-largest lender, Cyprus Popular Bank was to be wound up.

President eyes outsiders after M5S leader Beppe Grillo favours top job while Berlusconi and Bersani disagree.

Ian Mearns forced to quit post as PPS over stance on workfare reform vote.

Tunisian activist Amina posts topless picture of herself in support of women's rights.

Bolder US president has Israelis applauding idea that Palestinian condition is unjust.

US President Barack Obama spoke of peace and progress at Jerusalem Convention Center on March 21, 2013

Iran's Supreme Leader vows retaliation in case of Israeli military strikes

Hackers associated with the Syrian Electronic Army have taken over several BBC Twitter accounts.

In West Bank Palestinian city of Ramallah demonstrators protested against US President Obama's stance towards Israeli settlements

US president Barack Obama meets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in West Bank city of Ramallah

George Osborne's budget on Wednesday is unlikely to alter the United Kingdom's credit rating, Moody's said following the Chancellor's statement.

'Weapons should go silent and politics should speak' says Kurdish militant figurehead.