POLITICS

A few days after Chinese artist Ai Weiwei warned he would fight tax evasion charges "to the death", as the Chinese authorities ordered a company linked to him to pay 15 million Yuan (£1.5 million), financial support from fellow activists has been pouring.

Jamie Pyatt, district editor of the tabloid, has been arrested in connection with the Metropolitan Poilce's investigation into corrupt payments to police officers.

IMF is monitoring Italy over its long delayed plan of reforms of pensions, labour markets and privatisation, EU Commission President Josè Manuel Barroso said on Friday. Under pressure from financial markets and European peers, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi agreed to allow International Monetary Fund to oversight the country's progress to overhaul its debt crisis.

Human rights groups have accused doctors of failing to document signs of torture in Palestinian detainees, reports the Guardian.

With the attention of world leaders firmly on Greece, the talks at the G20 summit in Cannes appear to have hit a brick wall, according to reports.

A British man allegedly pushed a Ukrainian hooker from a hotel's window in Dubai in an attack could leave her disabled.

The death toll among Syrian civilians after Thursday's clampdown of the security forces against anti-government protesters has risen up to 20 civilians, according to London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

Following media speculations that Israel is contemplating launching an attack on its archenemy Iran, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to have asked Shin Bet Chief Yoram Cohen to investigate the leak.

Tensions between Iran and the U.S. are mounting after Teheran warned that America should think twice as the government would be ready to "defend the country" amid speculation that the U.S. and Israel are considering an attack.

The prime minister, David Cameron, faces yet another rebellion in the Commons – this time over the use British taxpayers’ money to boost the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a fiscal reserve that supports ailing economies such as Greece.

Barclays can withstand the failure of European banks, says its chief executive Bob Diamond.

European and world leaders at the G20 will discuss the prospect of an EU without Greece having come to terms for the first time that a Greek default is a real possibility.

UK Border Agency has barred 450 education providers from sponsoring new international students. The move is meant to stop abuse of the student visa system.

The soldier, from the 2nd Battalion the Mercian Regiment, was killed in Nahr-e Saraj District, Helmand Province on Thursday .

Life for All, a Lahore-based activist group, has published case studies of all those accused under the blasphemy law in Pakistan's Punjab province.

One of Belarus' most prominent human right activists has been put on trial in Minsk under charge of tax evasion, the Belarusian Association of Journalists has learned.

A group of MPs has "little confidence" in the government's strategy for regeneration across England, according to a new report published on Nov. 3.

Activists in Bahrain say that protests against the regime are on-going despite the targeting of civilians by the security forces. The Kingdom's forces are accused of arresting, and attacking civilians and the Bahrain Centre for human's rights ( BCHR) say that many protesters are being hit in the chest or heads, with several cases of protesters losing their eyes being reported.

The UK fully opposes Israel's latest decision to expand its settlements, Britain's Foreign Secretary has told the Israeli Defence Minister.

Britain's public services will be brought to a standstill on Nov. 30, as the country's largest union, UNISON, votes in favour of strike action against public sector pension reforms.

In an effort to save his dwindling political career sources close to the Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, say that plans to hold an EU referendum have been scrapped.

Two boats bound for Gaza carrying medical supplies and messages of support from the U.S. have reached international waters after leaving Turkey on Wednesday.

A Tibetan Buddhist nun burnt herself to death in south-west China, state media say, becoming the eleventh ethnic Tibetan this year to have self-immolated to reportedly protests against Chinese rule.

Chris and Mary Gorman have been arrested after being caught by police in an alleged sex act with another man in a nightclub toilet in Florida

Tensions between the US, its allies and Iran are mounting following a string of reports saying that the U.S. are considering attacking Iranian nuclear facilities, with the potential support and participation of both the UK and Israel.

Conflicting reports said that Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, will stand down after asking for a coalition government to be formed with Pasok and the opposition party New Democracy with elections most likely in the New Year.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been labeled as a wife-beater and philanderer by German's spy agency BND, according to secret files discovered by Erich Schmidt-Eenboom, expert and author of several books on the organisation.

Silvio Berlusconi is feeling the pressure of a financial and political crisis as six former parliamentary loyalists sign a letter calling for a new government amid controversy over the cabinet's economic reform plan.

Syrian tanks have opened fire in the city of Homs, raising questions about the validity of an Arab League-brokered deal to end the crackdown against anti-government protesters.