POLITICS

A mobile phone is now at the centre of a new scandal for ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn after "embarrassing" texts from him were recovered in a mobile phone thought to belong to Fabrice Pazskowski, a businessman under investigation in a prostitution ring.

Italy's upper chamber, the Senate, will debate and vote Friday on austerity measures demanded by the EU to avoid a eurozone breakdown, while a new emergency government could take over Silvio Berlusconi's administration within days.

Zimbabwean dictator, President Robert Mugabe has moved from politics to show business after reinventing himself as a popstar.

A leading business group has urged the government and businesses to adopt a two-pronged approach to deliver both short and long-term solutions to the housing crisis.

While the embers of the horrific M5 fireball are still burning in people's memory, the police claim to have found ample leads which may help them crack the mystery on what really happened on that fatefu

After his fairytale wedding, which brought London to a virtual halt, Prince William is back in business. He is set to complete a routine deployment to the Falkland Islands as part of a crew of four Royal Air Force (RAF) personnel, according to the Ministry of Defense.

Former South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, has hinted that that Africa's right to self-determination is still threatened by a "new imperialism", illustrated by the Nato Libyan operation.

The International Business Times is marking Remembrance Day with a series of forgotten stories of war. In 2003 the U.K. supported the U.S. invasion taking responsibility for Iraq's second city of Basra. Things went badly from the start.

Rick Perry's debate meltdown last night went down as one of the all-time political blunders. The IBTimes countdown the top seven.

Shell's failure to clean up two oil spills in the Niger Delta in 2008 has caused huge suffering to locals whose fisheries and farmland were poisoned, and the company must pay an initial $1 billion to set up a mop up fund, Amnesty International said on Thursday.

Councils are losing out on billions of pounds to fraudsters, according to an Audit Commission report.

Lucas Papademos, a respected economist and former European Central Bank vice-president has been named as Greece's new Prime Minister, after days of tense negotiations.

The City of London police is being prosecuted over allegations it used undercover dwarfs to perform an anti-terror search, according to The Evening Standard.

Home Secretary Theresa May has banned the extreme Islamic group Muslims Against Crusades.

The German government is not pursuing the idea of a smaller and more integrated Europe, according to Steffen Seiber, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman.

ANC Youth Leader Julius Malema has been found guilty of bringing South Africa's ruling party into disrepute.

UK interest rates are held at 0.5%, the same rate since March 2009.

A video has appeared showing sheriff's officers brutally beating what appears to be a group of peaceful Occupy protesters on the University of California campus in Berkeley Wednesday night.

Seven women were assaulted in a military prison under the pretext of "virginity tests", but eight months after the incident the military has failed to investigate or prosecute the men accused of the sexual assault, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).

Arab leaders are believed to be seeking a safe haven for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, allowing him to live to escape justice for his regime's repression of democracy protesters that has killed 3,500 .

In another overheard exchange with US President Barack Obama at the G20 summit two weeks ago, Franch President Nicholas Sarkozy allegedly described Greek minister George Papandreou as 'crazy' and 'depressed', according to French newspaper Le Parisien. The conversation hit the headlines when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "liar"

Protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement have embarked on a march to Washington DC to protest the potential extension of the Bush-era tax-cuts.

In an unexpected, dramatic move, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has appointed economist Mario Monti as senator-for-life, bringing him into parliament and positioning him as a possible prime minister.

Italy's business lobby, the equivalent of Britain's CBI, has urged quick government action and warned that the country risks being unable to meet its financial needs.

An Indian court has found 31 Hindus guilty of killing dozens of Muslims by setting fire to a building in Gujarat state in 2002, in one of India's worst outbreak of sectarian violence in recent years.

The Government’s spending watchdog has urged local councils and other related bodies to boost their counter-fraud defences with a view to tackling criminals who con them by using the data they post on their own websites under transparency drives.

Reports of an Israeli plan to attack Iran's nuclear facilities has ratcheted up tension across the Middle East. The International Business Times analyses what would be the ramifications.

Around 10,000 students were in London today for the latest wave of demonstrations against the government's higher education policy.

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano said on Wednesday afternoon that Italy will soon approve a financial stability law and a new government will be formed, in a dramatic attempt to calm bond markets.