SOCIETY

Liam Fox's letter to David Cameron highlights tension within the Conservative party over plans to increase the amount of foreign aid Britain sends to developing countries.

David Beckham has confirmed his interest in playing for the Great Britain football team at the London Olympics next summer in either a playing or a coaching capacity.

Investigators into the crash of Air France flight 447 have said that the downed aircraft's "black box" is intact, despite spending the best part of two years at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor has today announced he is seeking the arrest of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and two others for crimes against humanity.

Both Jeremy Clarkson and Jemima Khan were forced to deny weekend rumours that they have individually taken out gagging orders preventing intimate photos of the pair from being published.

Less than two weeks after the world watched him get married in Westminster Abbey, Prince William has saved a retired Hong Kong High Court judge who suffered a heart attack while out walking in Snowdonia.

Greg Mortenson, author of the bestseller "Three Cups of Tea," has been sued for fraud in a class-action case accusing him of fabricating much of his story to promote the book and his Montana-based charity.

The Duke is well known for his verbal "gaffes" and a blunt wit that has hammered everyone from small children to presidents, will he have any words of wisdom for the happy couple tomorrow? Here are some quotations attributed to Prince Philip.

NATO forces flattened a building inside Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziyah compound early on Monday, in what a press official from Gaddafi's government said was an attempt on the Libyan leader's life.

Writing on the Telegraph's blog section today, Andrew M Brown, recounted an incident in which he discovered that his local library does not stock Tintin books on the grounds that they are not "politically correct".

Buckingham Palace has released the schedule for the Royal Wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the man accused of planning the 11 September terrorist attacks, which killed over 3,000 people in 2001, is to be tried by a military commission at Guantanamo Bay.

Sport Media Group, the owner of the Daily Sport tabloid, has gone into administration.

Prince William has praised the courage of rescue workers and given his condolences to those who lost loved ones as a result of the flooding that hit Queensland, Australia at the beginning of this year.

A former British Airways worker has been sentenced to prison for 30 years after being found guilty of plotting to destroy a plane in a terrorist attack.

There will be no prosecution of Jarvis Rail over its involvement in the Potters Bar rail crash, the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) announced today.

Presenting a look at the list of top 5 national universities in terms of the proportion of undergraduate students who have internship experience and the support available to them.

The erosion of freedom in Great Britain continued yesterday when the High Court ruled against a Christian couple (why do they always come in couples?) who were seeking to become foster carers.

IBTimes interviews Jeanne Allen, the President of The Center for Education Reform, about education in Great Britain and the United States and about the rise of charter schools in the US and of academies and now free schools in Britain.

There was little good news for Fianna Fáil this past weekend with a general election expected to be held on 25 February and no change in the prediction that the current ruling party are going to lose badly. However, with a new party leader, Micheál Martin, Fianna Fáil's support does appear to have stabilised at 16 per cent. This was found to be the case in two opinion polls, one conducted by Red Co for the Sunday Business Post and another by MillwardBrown Lansdowne for the Sunday Independen...

The Chair of the Conservative Party, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, is to speak out today against prejudice against Muslims, which she claims is the last acceptable form of bigotry in Britain.

Aluminum Corp of China (Chinalco) will set up a joint venture with a local company to develop rare earths in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi, the China Securities Journal reported on Thursday.

The case of Peter and Hazelmary Bull, the Christian hoteliers who yesterday were forced to pay £3,600 to a homosexual couple who were refused a room at their hotel, has some disturbing implications for modern Britain.

A disturbing new trend is slowly arising in Great Britain which if unchecked could spell the end of the relatively free society we live in and risks taking us back to a less tolerant age.

A prominent headline on the front page of the Brisbane Courier-Mail reads: FLOOD RELIEF APPEAL Australia Unites Donate Now

Yesterday Bob Ainsworth, who served as Minister of Defence under Gordon Brown, called for an end to the "War on Drugs" and for legalisation on the grounds that it is a war we are losing.

The English Defence League has denied reports that it invited Pastor Terry Jones to speak at its rally on 5 February. Pastor Jones was the American pastor who caused outrage in the Muslim world by threatening to burn a Koran on the anniversary of the 11 September terrorist attacks.

The controversial English Defence League is once again hitting the headlines after the anti-Islam group invited Pastor Terry Jones to speak at an EDL rally early next year.

When I was a small child I loved the Royal Tournament. I still remember one year when jousting knights took part in the tournament as being, for me, the high point of the show, that, and the sight of cavalry and horse drawn guns manoeuvring dangerously around the field and the legendary field gun race. All done of course to some of Britain and the world's best military music (Suppe's Light Cavalry Overture was particularly apt).