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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.

UK privacy laws lay in tatters this morning after an MP used parliamentary privilege to name Ryan Giggs as the player at the centre of an on going injunction row.

The married footballer at the centre of the Twitter injunction row has been named in Parliament.

In the recently released "Giving White Paper" report, the Cabinet Office has revealed details about several newly planned reforms designed to increase the amount British citizens donate to charity.

David Cameron told ITV1's Daybreak the law should be reviewed to "catch up with how people consume media today" before adding that "It is rather unsustainable, this situation, where newspapers can't print something that clearly everybody else is talking about.”

Calls to name the footballer who had an alleged affair with model Imogen Thomas saw a spike in search traffic on Twitter and crashed the Scotland Herald's website last night. As of midday the Scottish newspaper's website is still down.

The first death penalty following the revolution that ousted former president Hosni Mubarak, has been handed down as a police officer found guilty of killing protesters was sentenced to death.

The law surrounding privacy injunctions intensified on Sunday when The Sunday Herald printed a front-page photograph of the footballer alleged to have had an affair with the model Imogen Thomas.

One of Britain's top judges has called for a distinction between Twitter users, bloggers and national newspapers.

The media should be informed before gagging orders are brought against them, a report by top judges says.

So the end of the world is tomorrow? That's a pity because I was rather hoping to spend the day making cakes and reading a good book. Seems I might not get the chance if Harold Camping, the leader of an obscure religious sect in the U.S., is right in his prediction.

The high court has partially lifted the gagging order brought by Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, after details of his alleged extra-marital affair were made public in the House of Lords.

The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has ruled out introducing a new privacy law to deal with issues around superinjunctions and gagging orders, following a meeting with the justice secretary, Ken Clarke, on Thursday - The Guardian reports.

The royal wedding appears to have brought happiness not only to Prince William and Catharine Middleton, but also to Britain's high streets, as retail sales climbed 1.1 per cent in April.

As the pressure mounts for the contents of Sir Fred Goodwin's "super-injunction" to be revealed, a peer has used Parliamentary rules to reveal more details in the House of Commons.

US President Barack Obama yesterday introduced sanctions against Syrian President Bashar Assad and six of his deputies as the regime continued to impose oppressive measures against its own people. The announcement came a day before President Obama is due to make a major policy speech on the recent developments in the Middle East and northern Africa. The sanctions are largely symbolic as Assad has few assets in the US and is unlikely ever to visit the country but come as a reinforcement of pre-ex...

Mothercare has said that it will be closing over a quarter of its stores in the United Kingdom, just as it announced massive growth in its international markets.

The Justice Secretary Ken Clarke came under sustained criticism on Wednesday evening after suggesting there was a distinction between "serious rape" and other forms of the crime.

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom gave a speech on her visit to Ireland yesterday. Here is the full text.

Ed Miliband, the labour leader, has called for Ken Clarke to resign over comments made in a radio interview.

Rape, while not a pleasant topic for civilised society to talk about, is all over the news this week.

Rapists who plead guilty could see their jail sentences halved under new Government proposals, Justice Secretary Ken Clarke confirmed in the Commons yesterday.