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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...

While Obama has spent the last days receiving and giving praises during his three-day state visit to the United kingdom, he will tomorrow fly to Deauville in France, accompanied by British Prime Minister David Cameron, where both leaders will attend the G8 summit.

After bilateral talks and a much talked about barbecue, both held at Ten Downing Street, Barack Obama continued his three-day state visit to the United Kingdom with a joint press conference where he and British Prime Minister David Cameron answered questions posed by the press.

In 2009 Obama went on his first official visit to Europe with a planned In 2009 ObamaIa five-nation tour in which he was said to be determined to tackle almost every global problem. He came out of the G20 as victorious as he managed to broker a deal a deal at the G20 summit in London, which he has hailed as a "turning point" in the economic crisis. The negotiations were however tough as French PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy threatened to walk out from what he said were "false compromises"...

Ahead of the US president's visit in Europe a lot has been said about the implications of the trip on the U.S-E.U relationships. What seems to be a little bit confusing is however whether it is the president who hopes to reassure his counterparts on the strength and importance of their relationship or whether his counter-parts expect him to do so.

The second estimate of first quarter GDP for the United Kingdom is due to be released tomorrow, although little or no change is expected in the 0.5 per cent growth given at the first estimate.

Created as part of a French initiative to address the first oil crisis in 1975, the G8 is an informal group of advanced economies, which meets once a year at a Summit of Heads of State and Government.

Shares in Marks & Spencer were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the supermarket chain reported a rise in revenue and pre-tax profit in the full year ended 2 April.

The Sunday Herald and the Sun have by their actions shown (if it were not already apparent) the madness of super injunctions taken out by the rich and powerful.

Barack Obama’s widely anticipated speech will see him try to rehabilitate the image of the US in the Middle East by repositioning the country as a solid supporter of newly-emerging Arab democracies. His speech comes amid criticism that the US has been too slow to support the uprisings, and has adopted contradictory approaches in its dealings with different countries.

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.

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

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.

Dissident Irish republican terrorists have issued a bomb threat for central London, police said, ahead of Queen Elizabeth II's ground breaking but sensitive visit to Ireland.

The Office for National Statistics is expected to release United Kingdom inflation data for April that will show a rise in the rate of inflation.