POLITICS

Chancellor insists there can be no let-up on spending cuts if the UK is to avoid a European-style debt crisis.

Actor pours scorn on Prime Minister's plans for a press watchdog backed by Royal Charter.

Japan’s Shinzo Abe and China’s Li Keqiang stick to hardline stance on Senkaku/Diaoyu islands.

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades, whose party does not have a majority in parliament, says deal necessary to avert chaotic bankruptcy.

Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, reached Saudi Arabia on Friday 15 March as they continue their nine-day visit to the Middle East.

Prime minister seeks to rally troops following disastrous by-election showing

China setting up bullet train network between Dandong and Hunchun, apart from other projects.

Woman on bicycle tour of central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh with her husband sexually assaulted.

US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel confirms that 14 more surface-to-air missiles will be deployed on west coast.

Police investigate whether bus that crashed on Western Cape's Hex River Pass was overloaded.

North Korea has launched a fresh military test-firing into the Sea of Japan as it flexes its military muscles during joint US-South Korean military exercises.

Pope Francis' spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said discredited accusations 'driven by anti-clerical left-wing ideology'

Controversial surge in tourism in New Mexico city thanks to AMC's popular show

Tehran masterminding plans to create 100,000-strong militant army, says Israeli intelligence chief Aviv Kochavi.

Independent MP 'wrestles' with police in club bar - his second fracas inside parliament.

France and Britain call for arming Syrian rebels to balance battle against Assad.

Oxford professor Derek Penslar claims Israelis should accept Zionist revisionist work.

China's folk singer Peng Liyuan poised to join Jacqueline Kennedy, Raisa Gorbachova, Nancy Regan and Michelle Obama as influential figure.

Red faces for coalition stalwarts whose late working hours result in embarrassing lock-in.

The Society of Jesus has a long history of missions, education, elitism and dedication to the poor

Interim President Nicolas Maduro jokes about late Venezuelan leader influencing Jesus to pick Argentinian cardinal.

Italian marines Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone at centre of escalating diplomatic dispute between India and Italy

Party suspends outspoken lord over claims he blamed Jewish plot for motoring offence jail sentence.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reached a deal for a governing coalition in which a new centrist party will serve as his main partner, a spokeswoman for his right-wing Likud party said on Thursday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to form a government with Yair Lapid, Tzipi Livni and Naftali Bennett

A Hong Kong doctor who helped to identify the SARS virus ten years ago urges vigilance against a new SARS-like disease that has since killed nine people.

Human rights lawyer filed criminal complaint against then Cardinal Bergoglio, claiming conspiracy with Argentinian junta.

Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, is 266th Pope of Catholic Church.

EU policy officer Ahmad Shihadeh dies in rocket attack in Damascus suburb.