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US solar physicists announced yesterday evening that the Sun appears to be headed into a lengthy spell of low activity, which could mean that the Earth, far from facing a global warming problem, is on the opposite headed heading into a mini Ice Age.

Greece has been pushed ever closer to the harsh reality of default after Wednesday's general strike all but shut the country down. The strikes have closed schools, central and local government offices around the country, while hospitals were operating on skeleton staff. Port and public transport services were disrupted, while a walkout by journalists forced most morning news programming off the air.

Britain has renewed calls for Sri Lanka to investigate allegations of war crimes after video footage apparently showing the summary execution of naked and bound prisoners was broadcast on UK television, in the documentary Sri Lanka's Killing Field.

On the opening day of the trial of the nine men, a court heard how seven teenage girls, the youngest of them is 13 years old, were groomed into child prostitution with offers of alcohol, drink and cash by nine men in a sex-trafficking ring.

A Derby music promoter is planning a multiculturalism music festival on the same day as an English Defence League (EDL) march in the city.

The harbour master's office in St Ives, Cornwall has confirmed today that two people on separate boats called in reports of sightings of an oceanic whitetip shark around two weeks ago. The sightings were both made by fishermen, only a mile offshore from St Ives.

Ed Miliband has delivered a 'key note' speech which was designed to put Labour on a path for electoral success and to try and put the embarrassing headlines of the weekend to one side. It has been a highly uncomfortable week for the Labour leader; starting with the leaks of Ed Balls' private emails and letters to Gordon Brown and culminating with the rumours that David Miliband has been plotting against him. The Labour leader is tasked with putting his party back on course, with a lack ...

The news that Leicestershire City Council had received a Freedom of Information request from a "concerned citizen who was wondering if the city council would be prepared in the case of a Zombie invasion", has sent the web on a hysteria craze, it seems that more than one person is anxious of the consequence that a Zombie attack would bring about.

Ed Miliband's has tried to use his speech this afternoon to detract away from the controversies of the last week. It has no doubt been the toughest of week in his short political career with questions over his relationship with David Miliband and his own performance as leader, Ed Miliband was keen to talk about policy and show the Labour Party was standing up for people. The speech was designed to give us an insight into what the future of the Labour Party will look like under his leadership ...

BBC 2 will air 'Choosing to Die' at 9pm on Monday evening sparking widespread condemnation from officials and licence payers. The film 'Choosing to Die' is a documentary about Peter Swedley, a motor neurone suffer who is chosen to take his own life in Switzerland. The film shows the last breath of Peter Swedley before he passes away. The film is designed to highlight the suffering of people with terminal disease and to illustrate the tremendous heart break and strain such diseases pl...

The student behind a hoax blog which claimed to be written by a gay woman in Syria has defended his actions.

Following the 6.3-magnitude quake that killed 181 people on Feb. 22, the New Zealand city of Christchurch was struck on Monday by a 5.2-magnitude aftershock before also suffering an hour later, a 6.0 hit, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Other smaller quakes were also recorded. In the central city and nearby suburbs, several buildings were damaged.

A blog purportedly written by a gay woman in Syria, which described life in Damascus amid the current political unrest, has been revealed to be a hoax.

he Sarah Palin documents that were released to major news corporations on Friday tell story of an Alaskan governor who craved attention from the national and international media. The attention seeking former Alaskan governor quit half way through her four year term because of a drive to sell books and appear on American chat shows rather than serve the people of Alaska who voted for her.

"concerned citizen" sent a Freedom of Information request to the Leicestershire Council, asking if the city council would be prepared in the case of a Zombie invasion.

The Chairman of the English Football League has claimed that players would accept being paid less in order to receive greater job security. Speaking after a two day meeting in Cyprus, The English Football League Chairman Greg Clarke has revealed that clubs have agreed to find new ways to curb spiralling deb in the Football League. The meeting was set after it was revealed that the debt across the 72 clubs of the Football League was growing at a compound rate of over 15-20 per cent.

South West Trains managing director Andy Pitt has apologised for the delays that left hundreds of passengers stuck on a commuter train for nearly five hours. Andy Pitt has offered his apologies to all passengers affected sighting "extremely difficult circumstances" for the chaos. Passengers using the Waterloo line have experienced long delays and cancellations before and feel that they have heard such rhetoric before.

The news that the Telegraph has gained access to 30 of Ed Balls' private emails to Gordon Brown will no doubt send a shiver down the spine of both Ed Balls and Ed Miliband. The newspaper has to exposed Ed Balls, Ed Miliband and Douglas Alexander for their part in 'Project Volvo' - a plot to undermine the leadership of Toney Blair and remove him from office in 2005.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams has launched a fierce criticism of the coalition government's education and health reforms as well as questioning whether the coalition government has a mandate to govern. The severity of the attack on the government took Prime Minster David Cameron and other senior ministers by surprise, with last summer's Conservative-Lib Dem coalition agreement coming under severe public scrutiny.

Glamour model Imogen Thomas has vowed to never hook up with a footballer again following allegations that she had an affair with Manchester United star Ryan Giggs.

Twitter users who revealed details of Ryan Giggs's alleged affair with Imogen Thomas could face legal action, according to the government's senior law officer.

The government's report today claiming that British universities are "complacent" in tolerating Islamic extremism on campus will come as no surprise to anyone who has attended a British university in the last few years, yet despite this, nothing is likely to change.

A High Court judge will decide whether to lift the current ban on media identifying a woman who allegedly had a relationship with former RBS boss Sir Fred Goodwin.

British lawyer Peter Benson began the movement that led to the establishment of Amnesty International in May 1961 by issuing an "appeal for amnesty" on behalf of two Portuguese students who had been imprisoned for raising their glasses in a "toast to freedom".

Twitter executives will be requested to give evidence to MPs as debate continues to surround the use of injunctions.

Almost three-quarters of the British public believe judges have been too eager to grant injunctions to wealthy celebrities, politicians and businessmen that protect their identity, an opinion poll has said.

A Twitter user has published claims about 14 injunctions allegedly obtained by high-profile performers, sportsmen and politicians.

In Srebenica in 1995 more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed while between 25,000 and 30,000 were expelled by force. These atrocities were committed by units of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladic.

In a statement today, the British Government confirmed a £2.1 million donation to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.