Veena Malik gets death threats in Pakistan nude cover shoot row
Actor in airbrushing row after appearing to wear only a tattoo spelling initials of Pakistani spy agency on Indian FHM coverThe Pakistani actor at the centre of a controversy over a "nude" picture on...
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News of the World and Milly Dowler | Kris Engskov• An article about the investigation into the abduction and death of Milly Dowler (News of the World hacked Milly Dowler's phone during police hunt, 5...
View ArticlePolice in Britain deemed untrustworthy compared with Europe, says study
Analysis shows repeated stop-and-search tactics have had catastrophic impact on public trust in UK forcesUnsatisfactory police contact with the public, such as through stop and search, damages trust...
View ArticleBahrain urged to deliver human rights reforms as king visits London
David Cameron offers Britain's help in implementing changes recommended in scathing report on abuses of freedomsBritain has offered to help Bahrain implement reforms that were recommended in a scathing...
View ArticleLabour's fight against NHS competition is 'depressing', Alan Milburn complains
Former health secretary claims Andy Burnham and colleagues are making political mistake in opposing private providersAlan Milburn, the Blairite former health secretary, has warned his party against...
View ArticleStephen Lawrence jury told of Gary Dobson's denials
Old Bailey hears extracts from interviews conducted by police with man accused of teenager's murderA man accused of murdering Stephen Lawrence told police he had been at home at the time of the...
View ArticleItalian bond yields soar as strikes raise doubts over Monti's austerity cuts
Confidence fades in latest eurozone fix as all of Italy's unions strike over where €20bn cuts will fall, France faces rating cut and fears grow that Germany's Commerzbank might need a bailoutItaly's...
View ArticleDurban climate conference agrees deal to do a deal – now comes the hard part
US warns negotiations will take years as UN celebrates breakthrough agreementThe Durban climate conference may have agreed a deal – or at least a deal to agree a deal – but the scale of the work that...
View ArticleRBS invested billions in complex loans that bosses did not understand
FSA report shows Johnny Cameron, the head of investment banking behind the aggressive expansion into CDOs, did not know how they workedJohnny Cameron, the former head of Royal Bank of Scotland's...
View ArticleNews of the World a den of iniquity? More like a haven of integrity
The Leveson inquiry discovers the NoW was full of journalistic paragons as Mazher Mahmood and Neville Thurlbeck testifyThe News of the World, it transpires, was a saintly place staffed by paragons of...
View ArticleSyrians go to the polls as unrest continues
Local elections take place amid continuing strikes and protests against the governmentSyrians voted in local elections amid continuing strikes and protests against the government as its forces fought...
View ArticleDundee teenagers jailed for trying to start a riot via Facebook
Jordan McGinley and Shawn Divin, who claimed page calling for looting and attacks on police was a joke, given three-year termsTwo teenagers have been jailed for three years for trying to organise a...
View ArticleBritain's press are fighting a class war, defending the elite they belong to...
It's not just Rupert Murdoch and his crooks. All the corporate barons who corrupted our political system must be unmaskedHave we ever been so badly served by the press? We face multiple crises –...
View ArticleEurosceptic delight at David Cameron's tough line on EU institutions
PM told to stand up to Nick Clegg and block eurozone members from using EU institutions to police their new fiscal compactEurosceptic ministers are to tell David Cameron to stand up to Nick Clegg and...
View ArticleNovus Leisure reports 16% rise in sales
Novus, which owns cocktail bars including Jewel and Tiger Tiger, says London market remains strongNovus Leisure, the Square Mile and West End cocktail bar business where David Cameron was once a...
View ArticleMark Duggan's family have little confidence in police probe, court hears
Lawyer for family of man whose shooting sparked August riots says there has been 'conflicting information' in investigationThe family of the man whose shooting dead by police triggered the summer riots...
View ArticleLiberal Democrats goaded by Tory backbenchers over Europe
MPs face attacks amid party leader Nick Clegg's no-show for prime minister's Commons statement on EU vetoLiberal Democrat MPs made frosty but restrained contributions to Monday's Commons statement,...
View ArticleBattersea Power Station pushes another developer into administration
• Irish property firm failed to repay debts of £340m• 40-acre site in south west London is valued at £500mBattersea Power Station's collapse into administration could trigger a bidding war for the...
View ArticleBosses of failed banks could be banned
Lord Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority, called for a debate over rules to allow bosses of failed banks to be automatically bannedLord Turner, chairman of the Financial Services...
View ArticleCountry diary: Bagber, Dorset
The river Lydden rises in the chalk near Buckland Newton and flows for 12 miles, mainly through green north Dorset fields, to where it joins the Stour near the hamlet of Bagber, a mile or two outside...
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