POLITICS

Prime Minister Gillard call for Royal Commission to investigate claims of widespread sexual abuses in religious schools, churches and charities

Israel tanks fire on Syrian targets after stray mortar from Syrian civil war lands in Golan Heights.

Bercow admits implicating McAlpine was 'the most stupid thing I've ever done'.

Helen Boaden, BBC news director and deputy Stephen Mitchell are to stand aside over the Newsnight row.

Full transcript of interview with then BBC director-general George Entwistle, conducted by John Humphrys on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday 10 November.

Tim Davie will assume acting Director General role as BBC attempts to control spiralling Newsnight crisis.

Saudis to buy 20 military transport planes and five refuelling Hercules aircraft.

George Sabra, who took on Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez al-Assad, to head anti-Assad group.

EU Commission and Parliament look for 6.8% rise, but member states refuse to yield.

Affair, brought to light by FBI, 'unacceptable' for a husband of 37 years and leader of the CIA.

Vladimir Putin claims the removal of Gen Nikolai Makarov and Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov was necessitated by corruption. But, Umberto Bacchi says, the real reason might be far different.

'I am not a paedophile' insists Thatcher's former Treasurer Lord McAlpine as he appoints lawyers for legal fight as Steve Messham apologises

Education and childcare minister says calculators will be banned Key Stage 2 tests from 2014.

Video of US President Barack Obama wiping away tears addressing his staffers in Chicago was posted on YouTube

As a fresh inquiry into the widespread sex abuse scandal, carried out by a Paedophile Ring at a number of children's homes in Wales in the 70's and 80's has been requested by Teresa May this week.

Two Iranian warplanes fire 'multiple rounds' at US surveillance drone over Gulf.

The Pentagon said that a MT-1 U.S. military aircraft surveillance drone, flying on a regular surveillance mission near to the Iranian coast, was intercepted by two Iranian jet fighters.

Obama's visit, coming in wake of communal clashes in Rakhine, intended to boost political and economic reforms in Myanmar.

And now that Obama is safely ensconced back in the White House it has been announced that his first International trip will be a historic three day tour of South East Asia from the 17th to 20th November.

President Obama's second term is a boon for US Fox News Channel, despite its Republican bias

Drug lords could see their profits slashed of up to $6bn, according to a study of marijuana legalisation effects carried out by former high-ranking official in the US internal intelligence.

Bishop of Durham Justin Welby is favourite to succeed Dr Rowan Williams.

A Tibetan activists' group has released a Gangnam style parody video to make fun of China's leadership in the run-up to the China Communist Party's 18th Congress.

Sites such as micro-blogging hub Sina Weibo are making it increasingly difficult for China's elite to cover their tracks, says Umberto Bacchi.

‘Queen’ says she accepts Obama’s presidential application and expressed commiserations to ‘Twit Romney’.

Around 400 people gathered at University of Mississippi, a key batleground in the figght agianst segregation 50 years ago, some shouting racial slurs against newly re-elected President Barack Obama.

Romney and the GOP party failed to seduce New America while Obama intercepted change

Human rights expert Sarah Cook says the Communist Party's latest clampdown on dissent could have a ripple effect which lasts for years.

As the 18th Party Congress begins IBTimes UK asks Tibetan activists and academics how they think Xi Jinping will deal with China's decades-old challenge - Tibet.