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Acknowledging the growing threat posed by hacker groups like Anonymous and its AntiSec hacking campaign, the UK Government has called for stricter international laws against cyber-crime.

Moroccans voted on Friday in a referendum on curbing the near absolute powers of King Mohammed VI, who has offered reforms following protests inspired by pro-democracy uprisings around the Arab world.

Shares in British banks were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading following Greece's apparent decision to embark on severe austerity measures.

Shares in British banks were broadly up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after France promised action aimed at putting off a Greek default.

Shares in British banks were broadly up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading despite the ongoing debt crisis in Greece.

Shares in British banks were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading as concerns about the eurozone and Chinese economies were eased.

Palestinian officials say a high-profile meeting between the leaders of the rival Fatah and Hamas movements has been called off and postponed indefinitely.

Syrian President Bashar Assad plans to make his third major speech since protests against his government began in mid-March, the state news agency SANA reported.

There is a growing fear in Paris that France is on the verge of a credit downgrade because of its exposure to Greek debt

Dramatic rise in UK applicants to US universities

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.

fter months of hesitations, Germany has yesterday recognised Libya's rebels as "the legitimate representatives of the Libyan people", becoming the 13th country to do so after after Australia, Britain, France, Gambia, Italy, Jordan, Malta, Qatar, Senegal, Spain, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.

Could the situation in Libya become any more complicated? The conflict which opposes Col Gaddafi to the rebel fighters and Nato is now threatening to turn into a real legal quagmire as all parties are accused to trespassing the law in a way or another

Despite being accused by the West of trying to produce atomic bombs, Iran stays defiant and announced on Wednesday that it will shift its production of higher grade uranium to an underground bunker in order to triple its production capacity."This year, under the supervision of the (International Atomic Energy) Agency, we will transfer 20 per cent enrichment from the Natanz site to the Fordow site and we will increase the production capacity by three times," the head of Iran's atomic...

Health officials say the E. coli that has sickened thousands in Europe has become the deadliest outbreak of the bacterium on record, as a rare strain is causing kidney failure.As they explained that the strain is a previously unseen variant of the bacterium and one that is more virulent than before, US scientists, in opposition to Europeans, are now warning that the new strain appears to be resistant to common antibiotics.

Following the failure of the African Union Road Map proposal presented by South African leader Jacob Zuma to broker a ceasefire between Gaddafi and the rebels, NATO powers are upping their intervention in Libya in a bid to break the deadlock, which has seen the Libyan leader hold on to power defiantly despite weeks of air strikes and a rebel uprising.

Shares in British banks were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading as talks on a second Greek bailout look set to be concluded tomorrow.

Ratko Mladic was the Chief of Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army throughout the Bosnian war and the last of the three most wanted men from that period to be brought to justice.

Bosnian war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic has finally been arrested after being on the run for more than fifteen years.Serbian broadcaster B92 was the first to report the arrest and said the suspect had been using the name Milorad Komadic while earlier on an interior ministry official confirmed to Reuters that a suspect was being held.Talking about the man in custody he said:"He has some physical features of Mladic, we are analysing his DNA now," the official said on condition of ano...

Serbian police have arrested a man believed to be fugitive war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, and Interior Ministry official has said.

The ash cloud from the eruption of Iceland's Grimsvotn volcano caused widespread disruption across Europe on Monday and Tuesday, with hundreds of flights grounded across Europe.

The 1967 proposal has frequently been used in the last few years by the American diplomatic corps when referring to a potential solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was first publicly suggested in 2010, during a visit in Bahrain when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton let slip that "we believe that the 1967 borders, with swaps, should be the focus of the negotiations over borders." At that time however the Obama’s administration believed that it was possible to reconcile t...

Alex Salmond, leader of the SNP and once again First Minister of Scotland, has said that he wishes his nation (by which he does not mean the United Kingdom) to have greater influence in the European Union.

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.

Part of an Associated Press release reads: "...angry crowds chanted 'All the whites out!'...French soldiers in boats plucked trapped countrymen from the banks of lagoons.....France commandeered commercial airlines after attacks on civilians, peace keepers and foreigners.

The Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) today issued its interim report, in which it, as expected, called for the "ring-fencing" of retail banks from investment banks.

Shares in British banks were up on the FTSE 100 in afternoon trading following the news that Portugal has asked for a bailout from the European Union.

The Labour Party today held what it called a "listening exercise" on a scale hitherto unachieved by a British political party.

Shares in British banks were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after yet another of the eurozone "PIIGS" received a downgrade from ratings agency Moody's.

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.