POLITICS

Ipsa crackdown shows results after MP expense claims plunge to 27,000 over two-month period.

The shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna, believes business needs to show it is a force for good.

Adel al-Gazzar languishes in Egyptian jail despite release without conviction from Guantanamo.

Italian cell of Anonymous hackers pledges to attack Italian government website.

Embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma made a public show of solidarity at pro-regime rally in Damascus.

In view of intelligence inputs which warned that Sami Mohamed Ali al-Fadli, 20, may launch an attack either on a UK location or on an aircraft bound for the country, Home Secretary Theresa May ordered a ban on the terror suspect.

YouTube video of alleged marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters sparks diplomatic fears and social media fury.

Gazan man faces firing squad over accusations of collaboration with Israel.

Rifaat al-Assad, the uncle of the Syrian President claimed the leader could finally step down following a "family initiative."

Well-known and award-winning French journalist Gilles Jacquier has been killed in Homs, Syria, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told the International Business Times UK.

Extending its Finnish Elisagate campaign the Anonymous campaign has opened up a new front in its "anti-censorship" war targeting Dutch anti-piracy foundation BREIN.

Alex Salmond's 2014 referendum call prompts joint attack by David Cameron and Ed Miliband.

A French journalist has been killed in Homs, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told the International Business Times UK.

Ghanaian police follow anonymous tip-off to arrest five found with truck full of armaments.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad addressed a crowd of pro-regime supporters in the capital Damascus.

Eight-year-old girl from Amazon tribe burned alive to force indigenous people from land, missionaries claim.

Representatives of children’s charities call for UK government to change its definition of child neglect and help stop abuse.

Following the cyber-attack by an alleged Saudi hacker who leaked thousands of Israelis' credit cards details last week, an Israeli hacker has posted information online about hundreds of Saudis, Egyptians, and Syrians.

The UKIP party has said the SNP leader “playing a blinder” over the Scottish independence referendum

The Nigerian cell of the Anonymous collective has continued its ongoing campaign against government corruption issuing a statement listing its demands.

Presidential polls will take place in three countries in 2012 - the U.S, Russia and France. Here are some names that could change the political landscape of these countries.

Iran's uranium enrichment programme director Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan dies in latest nuclear scientist killing.

The Finnish cell of the Anonymous collective has formerly denied Finnish media reports suggesting it had issued a bomb threat to the Copyright, Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC).

Scottish National Party under fire for bringing Scotland to 'brink of UK break-up' after defying Westminster on referendum date.

A car bomb explosion in the Iranian capital Tehran killed a scientist.

Amnesty International says Guantanamo a symbol of torture and hits out at Barack Obama for breaking promise to close it.

The affair started when Telecom Tycoon Naguib Sawiris tweeted a picture of a bearded Mickey Mouse and a veiled Minnie back in June.

Twitter posts claim two dead and protesters arming themselves against police.

Mitt Romney leads pack of six Republican runners in nomination race for the White House.