POLITICS

City of London Corporation is renewing legal action to remove Occupy London protesters from outside of St Paul's Cathedral, describing its talks with protesters as having got "nowhere".

Despite the NTC's efforts to focus on the reconstruction of Libya after months of civil war, reports of violence and armed insurgencies continue to raise fears about the country's future and regional stability.

Israel has offered to help Kenya secure its borders in a bid to fight off the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, which has caused havoc in the region, the Kenyan Prime Minister's office says.

Anders Behring Breivik "is not insane", judge said . There is also no evidence he had collaborators in the bomb and gun massacre in which he allegedly killed 77 people in Oslo this summer.

The former head of the UK Border Agency, Brodie Clark, has flatly denied the allegations that “he went beyond ministerial consent” by privately widening the controversial pilot scheme - a statement that contradicts Theresa May’s, the Home Secretary, view of affairs.

Italy's Prime Minister-designate Mario Monti is still struggling to form a Cabinet as Italian 10-year bonds yields rose back over seven per cent on Tuesday morning.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said that he will step down within 90 days of an agreement with the regional Gulf Cooperation Council

A News International lawyer has told the Leveson Inquiry that phone hacking by the company's newspapers is "wrong, shameful and should never have happened".

The Associated Press reports that at least 50 people have been killed in the latest surge of violence in the Assad regime's crackdown on protesters.

Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin has been let off with a warning despite breaking the law when dumping documents in a park bin.

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad called on Palestinians to agree on a new premier to replace him a future new unity government, a Hamas/Fatah unity deal seem closer.

The son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has been released from prison after he was jailed for violent disorder at student protests.

GOP Frontrunner Herman Cain in Embarrassing Video Leak.

An Egyptian blogger posed naked in a series of pictures published on Twitter under her real name sparking mixed reactions among her followers. Some praised her move, while others left outrageous comments on that.

Malaysian-led activists are planning to hold a symbolic trial this month, against former U.S. President George W. Bush and former Prime Minister Tony Blair, on charges of committing crimes against peace in the Iraq war.

Tackling property crime and gangs should be a priority, many respondents told the survey.

Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry heard that the practice could be widespread.

More than 100 MPs, including 83 Conservatives, back a motion that calls for a "price stabilisation mechanism".

George Osborne's new model aims to deliver public assets and services at a lower cost to the taxpayer.

The Home Secretary's pilot scheme allowed private jet passengers to enter the UK without proper checks this summer, leaked emails say.

The Prime Minister, in his speech to the Lord Mayor of London's banquet, said the UK had limited goals in the pro-democracy campaign in Libya.

The new defence secretary, Philip Hammond, has told MPs that ground-to-air missiles may well be used as a form of defence against terrorism during the Olympic Games next summer.

The pressure on President Bashar al-Assad continued to mount Monday after Jordan's King Abdullah became the first Arab leader to call for the Syrian leader to step down.

Iran authorities admitted on Sunday that their defence computer have been targeted by a virus called Duqu that is allegedly linked with the Stuxnet "cyber-weapon" discovered last year. The worm is believed to be aimed at sabotaging the Islamic Republic's atomic centrifuges, the devices that enrich uranium to create nuclear fuel.

Muslim community leaders are openly teaching people how to identify police informants, and briefing them on their legal rights, reports the Associated Press.

For Silvio Berlusconi, the domestic dimension has always been a key to his troubled political and personal life. From Villa San Martino at Arcore, a small town near Milan, to Villa La Certosa in Sardinia, a breath-taking mansion overlooking the crystalline sea, his houses have equally been theatrical headquarters of political meetings as well as lascivious brothels for the Prime Minister's secret pleasures.

Phone hacking was "a thriving cottage industry", the first day of the Leveson Inquiry has heard.

Brigade General Hassan Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile programme, was killed, along with 16 other Revolutionary guards in an explosion at a military base Saturday.

The Labour party has changed course on Europe, adopting a policy more consistent with that of the Conservatives rather than a Europhile centre-left party.