Marverine Cole

According to United Nations figures, some 220 million women in the developing world who don't want to get pregnant can't get reliable access to contraception.

Israel has finally released from prison a promising young footballer from Gaza, who they’d detained for three years without charge on suspicion of being an Islamic militant.

Up to 250 Syrian refugees every day could receive emergency medical treatment at new field hospital that’s been opened just over the country’s border in Jordan.

‘It’s done’ and it’s most likely one of the fastest divorce settlements in Tinseltown history â€" and all without a courtroom battle â€" so far anyway.

Anti-American sentiment has been rampant in Pakistan since last week’s agreement to re-open routes for US-led NATO troops to take their military supplies through the country to Afghanistan.

Some 70 rebel Tory MPs opposed to the reform of the House of Lords have signed an open letter calling for the bill to be put under ‘full and unrestricted scrutiny’ saying it will add to constitutional pressures ‘on top of the economic crisis’.

German car manufacturer, BMW has pledged to spend a quarter of a million pounds over the next three years in Britain to boost worldwide production of the ever popular Mini, with the jobs of 5,500 British workers secured as a result.

It’s a vain bid in these already filthy waters, but something that has to be done to keep body and soul together.

The French Foreign Minister has confirmed that one of the Syrian President Bashar-al-Assad’s inner circle of trusted confidantes, General Secretary Manaf Tlass, has defected to France.

Banks across the world have failed to reform, and they need to stop thinking about the bottom line too: The Head of the International Monetary Fund pulled no punches about the events since the collapse of Lehman Brothers back in 2008.

Families of those who died in the Air France Rio to Paris crash in 2009 which killed 228 people have been reacting to the news that a combination of pilot error and faulty speed sensors were to blame.

At 1,016 feet high, it's Europe's tallest building, it's along the River Thames in Southwark in London and it's been twelve years in the making.

Horrific footage from Syria has been leaked to You Tube showing a man being tortured by men in army uniforms inside one of the country’s detention centre. The images are extraordinarily graphic and disturbing.

There’s going to be a big shake up of the British Armed Forces. Ministers are all set to tell us 20,000 regular soldiers will have to go between now and the year 2020, as part of the UK’s overall spending cuts.

Their fighter jet was shot down by Syrian armed forces two weeks ago, and now the bodies of the two pilots of that Turkish plane have been found.

A gunman in Germany’s shot and killed four people before turning the gun on himself. The man held them all hostage for several hours in his flat before police commandos smelled some and then smashed their way into the block.

Seen here in the red dress with her sister Princess Beatrice chatting to guests at last month’s Buckingham Palace Garden party, 22-year-old Eugenie is the Duke of York’s youngest daughter and 6th in line to the throne.

The Prime Minister of Peru has declared a state of emergency and openly condemned deaths which occurred during clashes at long-running protests over a US firm’s plans to build the biggest mine in the country’s history.

Manchester United Football Club has signalled its intention to list on the US Stock Exchange in the hope of raising around $100m (just short of £64m).

It’s thought a further search for the last two missing RAF jet pilots could resume today, after two planes crashed into the sea near the east Scottish coast yesterday.

A pregnant British woman’s appeared in court in Pakistan on drugs smuggling charges. 25-year-old Khadija Shah from Birmingham faces the death penalty.

Customers have been getting shoddy treatment: The Governor of the Bank of England Sir Mervyn King very politely blasted the banking sector today as he delivered the latest financial stability report.

Do you like the idea of watching Formula One cars zooming around the streets of London at top speeds of 190 miles an hour?

More woes for the makers of the Blackberry, RIM (Research In Motion) as they’re set to cut 5,000 jobs. Confused? We are a bit too because at the end of last month they said they were cutting 2,000 people in June!

'Bye Bye', Becks; Hello Giggsy, Bellamy & Richards!’ David Beckham’s not been selected for Britain’s footy team at the London 2012 Olympics.

In what seems like a never-ending recent stream of violence in Iraq, at least 14 people have been killed in yet another horrific bomb blast targeting Shi’ite Muslim districts.

In the light of the news of Barclays misconduct and the record £290m fine imposed on it by the Financial Services Authority, it’ll come as no surprise then that there’ve been numerous calls for the Chief Executive, Bob Diamond to resign.

Fire crews in Northern Ireland say they received over 700 calls for help last night after two hours of torrential rain caused flood chaos across Belfast and County Antrim.

Five seconds symbolising one of the last big milestones in the Northern Ireland peace process.