Former EU Commissioner Mario Monti will begin consultations to form a new government of technocrats that could be sworn by Wednesday as Italy is expected to push through a bond sale on Monday of up to of 5-year bonds worth three billion euros.
A panel of MPs has slammed the government for trying to dilute EU air quality standards instead of prioritizing action to cut pollution on British roads.
In an attempt to stabilise the Afghan forces, the UK government will retain some British soldiers after it pulls out combat troops in 2015, said the chief of British defence staff.
Senior Tory MP Patrick Mercer has been accused of slamming Prime Minister David Cameron, calling him a 'despicable creature without any real redeeming features', a newspaper report has claimed.
The U.S. seems to be wary about the security arrangements for the 2102 London Olympics in the wake of the riots in some of the English counties early this year and also the arrests made at the Games site.
An official inquiry led by a judge into the press standards in the wake of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal is set to start on Monday.
Former prime minister Tony Blair has urged eurozone leaders to rally round to arrest the collapse of euro which, he said, would have a catastrophic impact on the EU.
An explosion has rocked Xi'an , capital of north-west China's Shaanxi province, according to reports. Around seven people were killed and 19 others injured, AFP has reported.
On Sunday, the Queen laid a wreath at London's Cenotaph, in the Whitehall, as part of Remembrance Day ceremonies across the UK. Remembrance Day is an annual British and Commonwealth tradition that honors the contribution of soldiers from these nations in past wars and conflicts.
A Channel 4 documentary that is believed to expose hidden truths about the royal family, has incurred the Queen's wrath. According to the documentary, the royal family had systematically shunned the Queen's first cousins, Nerissa and Katherine Bowes Lyon, as they were born with mental disabilities.
Millions of people have entered the UK without undergoing proper background checks through Dover, the country's biggest port, since 2007, it has been reported.
Britain has welcomed the tough stance taken by the Arab League in suspending Syria's membership in the group. At an emergency meeting in Cairo on Saturday, the league decided to exclude Syria from its meetings and to impose economic and political sanctions on its leadership.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has denied reports that injured soldiers could be sacked under a new redundancy plan.
Silvio Berlusconi has resigned as prime minister of Italy ending 17 years of scandal-plagued rule. The streets of Rome burst into celebrations and people were seen rejoicing at the news outside the Quirinale Palace. Some of the placards held by them read: "Berlusconi Game Over".
Hundreds of thousands of people have lined the streets of London to witness the Lord Mayor's Show.
Veteran singer Sir Cliff Richard, "X Factor" star Joe McElderry and Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins will perform for the royal family during the "Festival of Remembrance" 2011 in London, on Saturday night.
The Arab League is holding its emergency meeting on Syria in Cairo Saturday amid intense speculation about the country’s continued membership in the group.
The annual Lord Mayor’s Show will go ahead despite threat of protests by demonstrators, the organisers have said.
Armed Kurdish rebels hijacked a ferry and took 24 people hostage in the Sea of Marmara after it set out in the northwest Turkey on Friday evening, reports have said.
It’s the turn of professionals to find a solution to the debt crisis of two beleaguered nations, Greece and Italy, which shook the very existence of eurozone. Now the political leadership of these two nations is going to be in the hands of technocratic economists in the desperate bid to lead them out of the debt trap.
Prince William's trip to the Falklands has received irksome response from Argentina. It has condemned the Duke of Cambridge's posting to the Falklands as a "provocative act".
A leaked internal memo to the senior officers in Afghanistan has revealed the army’s plans to cut up to 16,500 soldiers under its new redundancy plan by April 2015, it has been reported.
A new Greek Prime Minister has finally been sworn in, nearly a week since the government fell apart over disagreements surrounding the Euro crisis.
Israel has accelerated the installation of anti-missile defences on its airliners, as officials fear a potential attack by militants using weapons looted in Libya after the fall of the Gaddafi regime, it was reported.
A mother and daughter were stoned and shot dead on Friday in their home in Ghazni province eastern Afghanistan, after a group of armed men attacked them, security officials said.
Europe's key crisis figures have all Goldman Sachs in their pedigree. Is it just a coincidence or is the financial world is trying to take over Europe?
Exclusive: Metropolitan Police foil violent mob, thought to be members of the far-right group the English Defence League (EDL).
Three addresses connected to the now banned Muslims Against Crusades were raided by anti-terrorism police late Nov. 10.
It is time Karl Marx's classic opening statement of the Communist Manifesto is reworded into something on the lines of: "A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of a double dip. All the powers of Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre."
Affable, reserved, highly-respected, Italian's probable new Prime Minister Mario Monti seems to represent the antidote to Silvio Berlusconi's discredited dominance of Italian politics, the "man who screwed an entire country".
