POLITICS

Actor Steve Coogan tells the Leveson Inquiry about a failed NOTW sting and doorstepping his pregnant girlfriend.

The US President, Barack Obama, has offered campaign donors the chance to have dinner with him - for only $10

The case of Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, the Egyptian blogger who bared all to protest against sexism in her country, has highlighted a growing trend for activists to use their physical bodies as part of political or social protest.

Speaking at the Leverson Inquiry, the parents of Alan Watson claim that "sick" articles in the press about their murdered daughter, Diane Watson, drove their 15-year-old son to take his life

The horrifying video of what is believed to be a Buddhist nun engulfed in flames on a city street was smuggled out of the country and given to Students for a Free Tibet, which has released it to the media and posted it on YouTube.

French ministers held an emergency meeting after a teenager, who had already been convicted of sexual assault on an underage girl in 2010, is accused of raping, killing and burning the body of a 13-year-old girl from his boarding school.

Libya's transitional Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib is poised to nominate a new cabinet on Tuesday that will be in office until next year, when the North African country will stage the first elections since the overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in August.

The widow of the former French President Francois Mitterrand and outspoken human rights activist Danielle Mitterand has died overnight, aged 87.

The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been left "blind" in the Middle East after the uncovering of at least a dozen U.S. agents in Lebanon and Iran.

The three defendant on trial in Cambodia before the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia, a UN-backed Tribunal , Nuon Chea, 85, Kieu Samphan,78, and Ieng Sary, 86, deny charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for their alleged roles in the deaths of up to 2.2 million people the Khmer Rouge four-year-rule from 1975 to 1979.

Despite three days of clashes between protesters and the security forces, which left at least 33 dead, the Egyptian authorities have announced that the parliamentary elections expected to take place in a week's time will proceed as scheduled.

Muammar Gaddafi's eldest son and heir, Saif al Islam, was a philander who used to beat his ex-wife, it has emerged in an Ukrainian newspaper.

Onyango Obama, 67, who is the half-brother of the president's late father, appeared in court on 17 November to face charges of driving under the influence of alcohol.

Amnesty International has slammed Egypt's ruling military council as pro-democracy activists in Egypt call for a mass rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square to overthrow the current government.

Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, the Egyptian blogger, who shocked the Arab world with her nude pictures posted on Twitter, has broken cover to issue a defiant rebuttal on Facebook to accusations of insulting Islam, saying she does not "acknowledge any discriminatory law".

The disparity between what top executives and average workers earn has been building for 30 years, the report has said.

Stand-first: Mario Monti has a tough task at hand – to shore up the finances of Italy which are a total shambles.

The IBTimes looks at the images from yesterday's Spanish election which saw the Popular Party win power from the PSOE

Government urged to ban hair dye chemical after woman is left in coma following an allergic reaction

Here's ten of the best quotes from Hugh Grant's appearance at the Leveson Inquiry.

A political agent and former Labour councillor has been jailed for three years for collecting and sharing images of child abuse.

Three aides to ex-Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in cvourt charged with recruiting 17-year-old Moroccan model Karim El Mahroug, better known as "Ruby the Heart Stealer." and several other women to work as prostitutes.

Dubbed by Vogue magazine earlier this year as a "rose in the desert", Asma al Assad has remained an elusive and enigmatic figure amidst her husband's continuing crackdown on protesters. Here the IBTimes profiles Syria's notorious first lady.

The prime minister, David Cameron, has admitted for the first time that his rigid deficit reduction plan is “proving harder than anyone envisaged.”

The government has imposed its toughest financial sanctions yet on Iran by cutting off all financial ties with its banks amidst fresh concerns that it is developing its nuclear programme .

Hugh Grant gave his evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, including how the press treated the mother of his child.

The capture of Muammar Gaddafi's playboy son Saif al-Islam, while he was trying to flee to Niger through Libya's southern desert, is just the latest dramatic development in a family saga that ruled the country for four decades.

As the Occupy London movement looks sets to continue in the courts, critics are suggesting that the protesters simply pack up and go home. But can a protester take this argument to Parliament by becoming an MP?

Gay activists have spoken out against a Russian bill to outlaw "propaganda of homosexuality" to minors.