Ann Salter

15 officers were injured, three seriously after Police tried to break up trouble between loyalists and republicans in the north Belfast area last night .

The Paralympics 2012 has now notched up an impressive 56 medals and now stands at 17 gold's, 24 silver's and 15 bronzes.

Speculation is mounting about an imminent ministerial reshuffle as MPs return for a new parliamentary term. The reshuffle could come as early as tomorrow, and these would be the first major changes to David Cameron's top team.

Prince Andrew wearing a James Bond style suit has abseiled nearly 800ft down the Shard skyscraper in a bid to raise money for charity.

Self-styled messiah Sun Myung Moon, who set up the Unification Church and became famous for marrying thousands of people in a single ceremony, has died aged 92 of pneumonia.

It's day one at the Paralympics and it's a silver medal for Paralympic GB cyclist Mark Colbourne, who won his medal in the C 1-2-3 1km time trial. With Dai Coates sadly missing out on gold.

Five Australian soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in two separate incidents, according to NATO officials.

The French government has agreed to open an inquiry into the death of Yasser Arafat, eight years since he died after claims that he died from Polonium poisoning.

Ajmal Kasab the Mumbai bomber who was part of a group of militants, and killed 166 people in 2008, has been sentenced to death today by hanging, for waging war against India.

The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said that "people of very considerable personal wealth have got to make a bit of an extra contribution" towards what he describes as the "national effort."

The full force of Hurricane Isaac has arrived in Louisiana after the storm made landfall in the state's south-east coast.

News has just reached us that twelve people have been killed by a car bomb while at a funeral in the Jaramana suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus.

Police have confirmed that Gracie Mackay, one of the three children who were rescued after a canoe tragedy in a West Highlands sea loch, has died at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow of her injuries. (Photograph: The Telegraph).

After pictures were leaked of HRH Prince Harry, naked, and having fun in the sun, with girls in Las Vegas, The Sun has broken with established media protocol to become the first British newspaper to publish those naked photographs.

Lance Armstrong will be stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned from cycling for life, the US Anti-Doping Agency has said.

A Norwegian court has sentenced mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, to 21 years in prison and declared him sane, for killing 77 people and injured 242 others in a murderous rampage against multiculturalism in 2011.

Police searching for Dylan Cecil a missing four-year-old boy who fell from a jetty into the water at Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, have confirmed they have recovered body of a young child near the local yacht club.

The Old Bailey trial of former Polly Peck tycoon Asil Nadir has finally ended today, as he received a 10 year sentence for stealing £46million pounds from the Polly Peck Empire 20 years ago.

Three Jordanian athletes facing a string of sexual offence charges in Northern Ireland have been withdrawn from the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

Downing Street has released a statement, saying that the Prime Minister David Cameron has spoken with Barack Obama over the phone on the threat of Syria's chemical weapons.

Locked-in syndrome victim Tony Nicklinson, who recently lost his high court battle, for a doctor to legally end his life, has died at his home in Wiltshire.

The body of Mika Yamamoto, an award winning Japanese journalist, killed in Aleppo Syria, while attached to the Free Syrian Army has been transferred from a forensic institute in Turkey.

The body of long-time Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi has arrived back from Brussels following a short unconfirmed illness.

The 66-year-old British man and his 5-year-old granddaughter, who drowned in a tragic accident, while on holiday in Portugal, have been named as Brian O'Dwyer and Lara Lewis.

The body of the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zanawi has left Brussels where it was due to travel on an Ethiopian Airlines plane to the capital Addis Ababa.

The Computer hacking collective Anonymous says it has attacked government websites both at No10 Downing Street and The Home Office in retaliation for the UK's handling of the Julian Assange case.

As the attacks continue by Afghan insurgents onto NATO personnel, a rocket attack on a US air base in Afghanistan has damaged the plane of America's top military officer General Martin Dempsey while he was on a visit there.

President Obama made a surprise appearance during Jay Carney's White House briefing. Speaking to a packed press room, he raised a smile as he traded banter with them before launching into the serious issue of Syria and chemical weapons.

The Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has died from a sudden infection while recovering from an undisclosed illness.