POLITICS

A new report on the Neo-Nazi group blamed for the killing of at least 10 people between 2000 and 2006, suggest that the country's far-right National Democratic Party may have formed close links with the violent gang.

Phone hacking and a "web of surveillance" by tabloids made her "paranoid", she told the inquiry.

A breakaway Amish cult in Ohio headed by leader Samuel Mullet terrorised the local Amish population by forcibly cutting the hair of men and women in night-time raids.

The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has apologized for the deaths of pro-democracy activists, while questions have been raised about the likelihood of next week's elections going ahead.

Nick Clegg told the annual Scarman Lecture in Brixton that the private sector is failing in the battle ro acheive racial equality.

Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy is said to have been arrested and detained by Egyptian police.

The decision is in line with the government's commitment to trim down employers' dependence on migrant workers.

Female Army chef Private Cheryl Walker found herself out on the frontline in Afghanistan looking for women who might be carrying improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

Faced by months of uprising against his regime, Syrian President Bashar al Assad continues to blame much of the unrest on armed groups and Islamist movements.

Drug use at the St Paul's protest camp has escalated to the point that local authorities have installed containers for the safe disposal of syringe needles.

Three Cameroonian men have been served with a five-year jail sentence for engaging in gay sex, by a court in Yaoundé, their lawyer reported on Wednesday.

Three American students were shown on Egyptian television after being arrested during the protests near Tahrir Square in Cairo, where demonstrators are calling for the Military Council to hand over power to a civilian government.

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann "were being tried by the media" and faced a barrage of innuendo suggesting they were involved in murdering their missing child, they told the Leveson Inquiry.

A landslide hit western Sicily after a heavy downpour, derailing a train and leaving three people dead.

A Russian female newsreader has caused a stir in her home country after appearing to put up her middle finger following her mention of the U.S. President's name during an afternoon news bulletin.

Protests have erupted in Bahrain to coincide with the publication of a much-anticipated report on the uprisings in the Gulf state earlier this year.

GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich gambled on backing a ‘humane’ immigration policy during the Republican presidential debate in Washington.

A “bunged-up” Labour leader put the Prime Minister under pressure over the state of youth unemployment during a feisty PMQs session in the House of Commons.

A police body guard who had an affair with the wife of the ex-cabinet minister he was protecting has been sacked.

After months of protests calling for his departure, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital to sign a transfer deal which would see his deputy Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi take power ahead of early elections.

The ex-wife of former England footballer Paul Gascoigne's said she fears the press will take revenge for her Leveson Inquiry appearance.

Lebanon celebrated its 68th independence anniversary with a 50-minute Independence Day military parade in Beirut, but opposition leaders insisted the country's sovereignty is still incomplete.

Turkish warplanes have bombed Iraq's northern Kurdish region, wounding two civilians

The eurozone crisis has already led to the toppling of two elected governments and their replacement with EU approved technocrats with a democratic mandate somewhat below that enjoyed by Robert Mugabe. With Barack Obama up for re-election next year, could the euro crisis even lead to the toppling of the so-called leader of the free world?

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on embattled Syrian leader Bashar al Assad to resign, reminding him of the tragic ends of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

Phone-hacking spread further than the News of the World, the Leveson Inquiry has heard.

Conservative students at Scotland's prestigious St Andrews University have apologised after members of their societies burned an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama.

Confusion over the capture of Abdullah al Senussi, Gaddafi's former head of intelligence, is still growing after the U.S. envoy to the UN said the Libyan authorities were unable to confirm whether he is in custody.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Spain's prime minister-elect, Mariano Rajoy, to make necessary changes as soon as possible to prevent another crisis on the scale of Italy or Greece, as markets reacted badly to news of his victory at the polls.