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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.

The British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has suggested that Great Britain may be willing to allow Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi to go into exile, rather than face trial at the International Criminal Court.

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.

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.

In recent weeks "human rights" have come to the forefront of political debate as activist judges in Britain and in Europe have sought to force the elected government's hand on a number of emotive issues.

Shares in Carillion were up on the FTSE 250 in morning trading after the construction company said it had agreed terms to acquire green outsourcing company Eaga.

It emerged today that Colin Firth, the lead actor in the new film "The King's Speech", in which he plays King George VI, may not be the biggest fan of the monarchy.

On Thursday, 20 January 2011, Brian Cowen, Ireland's Prime Minister (Taoiseach) announced that a general election will be held on 11 March 2011. Somewhat earlier than he and his Fianna Fáil Party would have liked - their preference was the 25th - it is unlikely to make any significant difference to their expected trouncing at the election by a Fine Gael/Labour coalition.

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.

Voters in Oldham East and Saddleworth in Greater Manchester went to the polls in a by-election on 13 January 2011, caused by former MP Phil Woolas being found guilty of offences against his Lib Dem opponent, Mr Elwyn Watkins during the May 2010 general election campaign and thereby forfeiting his seat. This case should be good for British democracy despite the fact that the injured party failed in his bid to win the seat, and may well have implications in the way future election campaigns are ha...

South Sudan is voting to secede from the North. Their chances are better than those of the Confederates 150 years ago.

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.

It's not often that an article in the Guardian interests me, but yesterday between the regular complaints about the cuts and the stories of the plight of downtrodden workers in far away places, there was a real gem of a piece about the Chinese dissident and now Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables reveal BP suffered a blowout on an Azerbaijan gas platform in September 2008 and was fortunate to evacuate workers safely after a blast that preceded the one that killed 11 workers in the Gulf of Mexico in April, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported. Other cables leaked by the web site Wikileaks claim Azerbaijan's president accused BP of stealing oil from his country and using "mild blackmail" to secure rights to develop vast gas reserves in the Caspian...

Shares in Weir Group were up on the FTSE 100 despite the engineering company saying it had pleaded guilty to two charges of breaching UN sanctions in relation to the Oil for Food programme.

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).

Maybe David Cameron, Britain's Prime Minister, was considering the fate of Ai Weiwei's Shanghai Studio, when he gave his carefully worded speech on 10 November 2010 in front of a group of Beijing University students. Mr Ai, who designed the 2008 Beijing Olympic Stadium, had made documentaries about Chinese dissidents and human rights issues, which, it would appear, were not to the liking of the authorities. It turns out that his studio in Shanghai has not got proper planning permission a...

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has said that it is to conduct an assessment into the Coalition government's Comprehensive Spending Review, announced last month.

Exceptional Actors and the movies that they wish they could keep a dark little secret

Lord Pearson of Rannoch, the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, has said he will be standing down from his position next month.

A complicated sting by Sky News which saw cameras and keystroke recording programs attached to a PC sent for repair has convicted an engineer, Grzegorz Zachodni to jail.

A High Court ruling in favour of Portsmouth has been won today allowing the Championship club to continue despite the £11 million it owes HMRC remaining unsolved.

The government has said that placing advertisements for sex-related "jobs" will no longer be permitted in Jobcentres.

Jon Venables, one of those convicted of murdering the toddler James Bulger 17 years ago could face up to ten years in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to child pornography.

Simon Cowell, entertainment mogul, is being sued by a Britain's Got Talent contestant for 'hurting her feelings'.

The President of Croatia Ivo Josipovic has visited the Serbian capital of Belgrade in what has been hailed as a historic milestone in the relationship between the two countries which fought a bloody war in the 1990s.

Five Muslim American students have been sentenced to ten years in prison in Pakistan after they were found guilty of conspiring to commit terrorist attacks and funding banned terrorist organisations.

Five British men have failed in their attempt to avoid extradition to Greece where they face charges of grievous bodily harm to professional footballer Rob Hughes.

Last ditch efforts are being made to avert a series of five day strikes due to start tomorrow. Yesterday talks between BA and Unite union broke down after protestors stormed into the building where talks were being held.

Shares in British Airways fell on the FTSE 100 in morning trading today after the airline, which has hit by strikes, competition from budget airlines and most recently a volcano, reported a record loss of £531 million.