2012-10-10

US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has pulled ahead of President Barack Obama by one per cent in the race for the White House

Lance Armstrong and his team ran the most sophisticated doping programme in sport according to the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USDA) which

Turkish fighter planes have been scrambled to intercept a Syrian passenger aircraft suspected of carrying weapons, and have forced it to land in

Transport workers in the Tunisian capital have staged a lightning strike to demand the release of one of their co-workers. A bus driver was

The German cabinet has approved a draft law that protects the right to circumsise young boys. The move is designed to end the uncertainty after a

Italian comedian turned politician Beppe Grillo has launched his regional election campaign with a swim across the Straits of Messina. The

Serbia cannot begin accession talks with the EU until it deals the its problematic relationship with Kosovo. That is the message from the European

PPR’s decision to spin off its Fnac unit, its entertainment goods subsidiary, was welcomed by the markets on Wednesday in Paris. The French retail

A 14 year-old girl, shot in the head by a Taliban gunman, is in a stable condition in Peshawar after surgeons worked for hours to remove the

Amid the battle for control of northern Syria, rebels have been trying to cut government forces’ supply lines around Aleppo. After losing the

Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli is among six players recalled by Italy head coach Cesare Prandelli for their World Cup 2014 qualifying game

More than 60 years of oppression in South Africa are on display in New York in an exhibition called The Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and

Plans to form the world’s biggest aerospace and defence company in Europe have crumbled. The makers of Airbus, EADS, and the British defence

British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned voters to brace themselves for tough austerity measures. His comments came at the final day of the

Yekaterina Samutsevitch, the Pussy Riot member who was freed, left the court to a warm welcome from supporters. The 30-year-old was reunited with

The International Monetary Fund has warned that the flight of capital from struggling eurozone countries could shrink bank assets by trillions of

Ruby Sparks – the story of a young writer who creates a character who comes to life – explores reality and the power of the imagination. The film

Amateur video published on a social media website purports to show Syrian rebel fighters engaging in fierce gun battles with government forces and

A cache of weapons and bomb-making equipment has been found by French police investigating suspected Islamic terrorists. The material was

A court of appeal in Moscow has confirmed two-year prison sentences for two members of the punk band Pussy Riot, but freed a third after her sentence

‘If Syria keeps firing at us, we will respond with more force.’ This was the message delivered to Damascus by Turkish army chief General Necdet

Italy’s prime minister Mario Monti is to give low-earners a cut in income tax. It is a rare boost for struggling households in the eurozone’s third

Talks to form the world’s biggest aerospace and defence company have collapsed. Britain’s BAE Systems and the Franco-German EADS had been in final

Scientists say that a mammoth that roamed the Siberian tundra may have been killed by an Ice Age man on a summer’s day tens of thousands of years

Turkey will respond with even greater force if further shelling from Syria takes place. The announcement came from the country’s military chief of

A Russian appeal court on Wednesday upheld the two-year jail sentences handed down to two members of punk band Pussy Riot for a protest against

French police say they have discovered weapons and bomb-making equipment while hunting suspected Islamic terrorists. The material was found

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to two Americans, Robert J. Lefkowitz of Duke University and Brian K. Kobilka of Stanford University

A member of punk band Pussy Riot was freed on appeal on Wednesday but a Moscow court upheld prison sentences for two others imposed over a raucous