Ann Salter

WARNING CONTAINS VERY GRAPHIC IMAGES!A Syrian government air strike on a rebel-held village near Damascus has killed 10 children on Sunday as they played outdoors according to opposition activists.

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak announces retirement from political life, and that he won't be running in the January 22 national election, thus ending a decades-long career in service of the Jewish state.

UK flooding and storms has claimed the life of a second person - a 21 year old woman who was killed and two other people injured by a falling tree in Exeter, as strong winds raged across the west of the country.

Separatist voters in Spain's Catalonia region won regional elections on Sunday but failed to get a resounding mandate for a referendum on independence, which had threatened to pile political uncertainty on top of Spain's economic woes.

Clashes have continued in the early hours of Monday as unrest continues in Cairo over President Mohamed Mursi's decree granting himself sweeping powers which puts him above legal challenge until parliamentary elections.

Egypt is in chaos with fires burning in Alexandria. Protestors, seen here, storm the Brotherhood headquarters of the Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, following his decree that presidential decisions cannot be rebuked by any authority.

Tata Steel which employs 19,000 people in its UK steel business has announced it is cutting 900 jobs around the UK, including almost 584 jobs at plants in south Wales, as a result of a four year downturn in demand for steel bar products and pipeline

A man in Chew Stoke has died in his car after becoming trapped under a bridge as torrential rain and flooding hit the UK last night.

The two Spurs football fans who were stabbed, one critically, by Italian football hooligans in Rome ahead of tonight's Tottenham's Europa League match against Lazio, are believed to have been the victims of anti-Semitism.

Sixty-one-year-old Tony Hall - Lord Hall of Birkenhead has been appointed the new BBC Director General and will start his new role in early March on a salary of £450,000 a year.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said today that he plans to push very hard for a reworking of the European Union budget proposal during an intensive two-day summit in Brussels.

A Taliban suicide bomber has blown himself up, killing at least 23 people at a Shia Muslim procession in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. The bomber targeted marchers as they approached a mosque near the city centre.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is in the final stages of discussion with NATO about getting access to advanced Patriot missile system which would be used to defend its 560 mile border against Syrian attacks.

As the eighth day of the Israel Gaza crisis continues a bus carrying passengers has been blown up in Tel Aviv by a terrorist bomb. Early reports say that ten people are injured with five of the wounded in a serious or moderate condition.

US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has arrived in Ramallah on the West Bank for talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the man who became the face of the terror squad who carried out the Mumbai attack in 2008, wearing his black t shirt and toting an AK47 has been executed by hanging at 7:30 local time.

British prosecutors said today they will charge Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson with conspiring to pay public officials to secure the contact details of members of the Royal family.

Rebels known as M23 have allegedly entered the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo today after clashes with U.N.-backed Congolese troops defending the city.

The Church of England governing body The Synod is debating ahead of a vote today on whether to allow the ordination of women bishops, the culmination of more than 10 years of debate on one of the most divisive issues within the Anglican community.

Cape Town High Court Judge Robert Henney found South African man Xolile Mngeni guilty of killing honeymoon tourist Anni Dewani.

Rebels in Congo, known as M23, who U.N. experts say, are backed by neighbouring Rwanda, have reached the outskirts of the eastern city of Goma after pushing back government troops.

As the rise of sectarian violence and deaths have been increasing in the past few months, between the majority Buddhists and the Rohingya Muslim minority in the western state of Rakhine.

The Confederation of British Industry Conference or CBI is known as 'the' premier event in the UK business calendar where leading politicians and expert speakers from the world of business, finance and education put forth their vision for the future.

Following the heavy overnight bombing by Israel in the Gaza strip, which has killed 29 Palestinians, mainly women and children.

The U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, currently on an Asian tour of Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore and Australia. Visited Myanmar, the first by a sitting US president, to meet with President Thein Sein.

Maybe the reason why the UK public decided to stay away from voting in the election of Police and crime commissioners, who will have the power to set 41 police force strategies and budgets.

The Egyptian Prime Minister Prime Minister Hisham Kandil has made a brief trip to Rafah in the Gaza Strip today to meet with the Gaza deputy Prime minister Ziad Zaza seen here for a three hour meeting.

Heavy rains are affecting the northern outskirts of Rome.

The Schizophrenia Commission, which was established by Rethink Mental Illness charity, has released a report titled The Abandoned Illness, which highlights too much is spent on secure care - 19% of the mental health budget in England last year.