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UK wants renewable energy target scrapped
Fledgling green industries could be hit as document reveals move to rebrand nuclear power as a renewable form of energyThe UK government is fighting to have nuclear power considered as a renewable form...
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Girlfriend accuses police over fatal car shooting
Gail Hadfield calls for officers to be 'brought to justice' over death of Anthony Grainger who was shot dead in stolen vehicle The girlfriend of a man shot dead by police has called for officers to be...
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Nick Clegg isolated after party splits on health and tax
Liberal Democrat leader under pressure after conference refuses to endorse controversial health billNick Clegg's leadership came under its most severe challenge since the coalition was formed when the...
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Should the BBC bring in Birt 2.0?
Without a new director general with a similar appetite for radical, unpopular change, the corporation will merely manage declineThat the BBC is facing tough times is hardly news. After years of...
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Aung San Suu Kyi's broadcast is censored in Burma poll runup
Opposition leader says her party is banned from criticising previous government during TV and radio promotionsBurma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said that government censors are not...
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Noreen Edwards obituary
Noreen Edwards, who has died aged 85, was known as "the perfect matron" by her patients and staff. She demanded exacting standards of nursing care and was a very efficient administrator, firm but fair....
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Media Monkey: Murdoch's European citybreak, threats of violence and Paxman's...
✒On a whistle-stop tour of Europe last week – including "a great few hours in Berlin", he tweeted – Rupert Murdoch met the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Ankara. Murdoch-watchers...
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Time for some straight talk on Afghanistan | Douglas Alexander
Cameron must set out a realistic vision that honours the sacrifices made by Britain's forcesSeeing relatives of the six British soldiers killed last week pay moving tribute to their loved ones brings...
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US soldier's killing spree puts Afghanistan on a knife-edge
Tensions increase as nine children among 16 shot dead by lone gunman in Zangabad village in KandaharA US soldier has shot dead 16 Afghan civilians, nine of them children, in a night-time shooting spree...
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Gay couples make wedding plans amid angry Catholic sermons
'It's not like we are all going to be marching into Catholic churches in bridal dresses,' says one gay man at Designer Civil Partnership show"Let me not to the marriage of true minds/ Admit...
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UK recovery has been weaker than in US, Germany, France and Canada
Explanation for this woeful performance is that the UK has been hit harder due to the importance to the economy of the CityBritain has slipped behind Brazil in the global economic league table. The...
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Letters: Coalition's balancing act on tax
So the 50% tax band is "unloved" is it (Comment, 7 March). Unloved by whom, pray, when it only affects those earning over £150,000? I haven't heard a single person mention it, let alone complain about...
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Letters: Young, black and out of work
Now we know that more than half of young black men are out of work (Report, 10 March), forcing people on benefits to work for nothing has a rather uncomfortable feel to it, don't you think?Dr Simon...
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Letters: Nuclear sites, sea-level rise and tsunamis
It seems clear that nuclear facilities will be vulnerable to the effects of global warming (Nuclear power sites face flood and erosion risks, 8 March). As the Institution of Mechanical Engineers stated...
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Letters: The science of spin over GM foods
Your report of the British Science Association's survey by Populus (Poll shows swing to GM foods, 9 March) is fast and loose with its headline of what is a very ambiguous set of findings. To say that...
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Europe is the taboo subject in the French presidential election | Christine...
It's a topic François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy prefer to avoid. But Europe can't be sidesteppedParadoxically, the only country in the EU where the political debate is regularly stirred up by...
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Obama is still in a hole. It may yet be deeper than his Republican rivals' |...
It's hard to imagine Mitt Romney giving the next inauguration speech. But it's distinctly possible that he willLast Wednesday the Federal Reserve announced the first quarterly rise in consumer...
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Afghan president moves closer to agreement on post-2014 US pact
Hamid Karzai says he will sign deal defining the country's long-term relationship with AmericaAfghan President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday he would meet western demands to sign by May a much-delayed...
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Afghanistan: dash for the exit | Editorial
Barack Obama will not be judged as kindly by history in Afghanistan as he was over his withdrawal from IraqThere is every indication that the end of Britain's fourth war in Afghanistan will be as...
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Pollutionwatch: Winds from Europe blow stale pollution across to the UK
Cold air spread eastwards across the UK on 31 January and stayed for the first half of February. Frosty still nights allowed traffic pollution to build up in our cities, spreading out from roads to...
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