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The United Kingdom will not be able to maintain their position as a Global power if the Government continue to cut British defences, according to a report by the Henry Jackson Society.

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Rebekah Brooks has finally resigned as chief executive of News International, following weeks of dyer scandal involving phone hacking.

Trio jailed for sophisticated hacking of U.K banking system

General Motors want to produce their Ev-V Pride driverless electric car in the U.K.

Santander has finally taken heed to the thousands of customer complains about the company's call centers in India, and have closed two in a move that will see the call centers return to Britain.

Virgin Atlantic pilots have voted overwhelmingly to strike over a four per cent pay increase. The strike, which has mass support amongst pilots, had a turnout of 94 per cent with 97 per cent voting in favour of industrial action. It is a significant blow to British travellers who will no doubt face holiday chaos this summer. The strike will affect key routes flown by Britain's, including Florida, the Caribbean, the Far East and Australia. The first walk out is expected this July.

President Obama has ordered 33,000 U.S. troops out of Afghanistan in the next 14 months with 10,000 to be withdrawn by the end of this year. The timetable settled on by the president after a vigorous internal review was faster than sought by some top military commanders but much slower than demanded by many domestic political critics.

The Greek economic crisis may affect the Eurozone first, with France and Germany set to lose a vast amount of money if Greece defaults, but there will be considerable damage done to the United Kingdom as well.

New report shows that falf of Glastonbury ticket websites are bogus

Nato has admitted "a weapons systems failure" may have led to civilian casualties in Sunday morning's air strike in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

The Anglican Church is to set approve controversial guidelines allowing openly homosexual clergy to become bishops

Susan Boyle's meteoric rise in fame since she came in second on Britain's Got Talent will be brought to life in a new stage musical

The Argentine president attacked Mr Cameron for what she called an expression of "mediocrity and stupidity". Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, who is running for a second term in power in elections this September, was responding to Mr Cameron's firm stance on the Falklands in prime minister's questions this week.

A British man, dubbed the 'Silence of the Lambs rapist' is to be deported back to the United Kingdom after Australian immigration officials ruled the man had violated his visa terms after staying in the country after his release from prison.

A man is on trial in London for using internet social networking sites to shame a man who he claims had a long running affair with his wife

Up to 32 members of the hacking collective anonymous are currently either being detained by European law enforcement agencies or set to stand trial, some of whom are minors.

Today Michael Gove will announce new GCSE targets for schools who under new Government proposals are deemed to be failing their pupils. In a speech that will try to restore the Government's position on public sector reform, he will say that by 2015 he expects every secondary school in England to be achieving the current national average of at least 50% of pupils achieving five A*-C grades at GCSE, including English and maths.

George Osbourne is proposing the biggest bank shake up since the 1930's with controversial plans to ring fence retail arms of banks. He is set to face 'formidable opposition' from the banks in what could be one of the most challenging reforms of the banking sector. The Chancellor wants banks to ring fence their retail banking arms to protect the public if their trading and investment arms were to hit serious trouble.

The coalition has placed the United Kingdom on a road to austerity. The vaccination debate is sensitive. Primarily the government's first priority should be to keep their people safe and healthy. With defence and health care cuts can they really justify spending extra on international aid? The government may be heading down a thoroughly noble path but is the timing all wrong?

Shares in Tesco were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the supermarket giant reported a "subdued" set of results for the first quarter ended 28 May.

Shares in Tesco were up on the FTSE 100 in afternoon trading ahead of the supermarket giants Q1 trading update, expected tomorrow.

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 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.

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.

Barack Obama had quite a journey last week, but he was not the only person making international headlines. Here's a quick reminder of what was a busy week in international politics.

Barack Obama's visit to Ireland and the United Kingdom was a barely disguised electioneering stunt, which saw the U.S. President grasping vainly at cultural straws.

As the two-day G8 summit is set to start today in Deauville, much hype has been made of the need for the group of states to discuss and decide new policies on matters including supporting new regimes in North Africa and the Middles East or reviewing Japan's nuclear crisis and discuss new policies regarding nuclear power.

France, which currently holds the rotating presidency for the Group of Eight and the G20 is hosting the annual G8 summit in Deauville on May 26 and 27. The meeting is due to focus on issues including the global economy, political and security issues such as drug trafficking and terrorism, exiting from Afghanistan, Iran's nuclear program, the Middle East and North Africa and Internet governance. Following the March 11 Japanese earthquake and tsunami that damaged the Fukushima nuclear plant, n...