The coroner´s reports on the deaths of nine patients trapped in a sweltering hospital in the days following Hurricane Katrina should be made public, a judge has ruled.
A Christian magistrate who claimed he was forced to resign rather than place children for adoption with same-sex couples will today appeal against an employment tribunal ruling.
Parents of 5-year-olds are to be sent official warning letters if their child is found to be obese, as part of a national programme to weigh children in schools.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan tells The Times that he needs nobody’s permission to defend his country.
Oil hit a new record overnight on tensions in Turkey and a falling dollar. The AA says forecourt prices are set to go much higher.
Vladimir Putin signalled the return of the arms race yesterday when he boasted of developing new nuclear weapons and warned the United States not to ignore Russia’s objections to a missile defence shield in Europe.
Mark Thompson, the Director-General of the BBC, faces the prospect of strike action amid widespread unhappiness at his finally confirmed plans to make 2,500 employees redundant, including heavy cuts in news, outside London and in factual programming.
Viacom, the Walt Disney Company, Microsoft and other media companies have agreed to a set of guidelines to protect copyrights online but Google, owner of the Web’s biggest video site, was notably absent from the pact.
Allianz, the German insurance giant, has become the first mainstream institution to enter the UK’s fledgling market for third party litigation funding.
Gordon Brown is planning to pick a fight with President Sarkozy of France at this week’s European summit as he tries to move the agenda on from demands for a referendum on the EU treaty.
Arch rival Toshiba gains access to top secret workings of the chip powering the PlayStation3 console.
Britain’s only black High Court judge last night condemned the “woefully slow” rate of progress over opening up the judiciary to non-white candidates.
Eighteen people, including 10 airline workers at New York´s John F. Kennedy International Airport, appeared in federal court Tuesday on international drug smuggling and distribution charges.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ended eight years of self-exile on Thursday, returning to Karachi where more than 200,000 supporters poured onto the streets to welcome her home.
Authorities seize commercial jet, $10 million of products, 18 vehicles, nearly $400,000 in currency and arrest 40 people.
Environmentalists have threatened to sue Apple if it does not make its iPhone a “greener” product or tell consumers of the toxins allegedly used in the device’s manufacture.
The man in charge of the team of armed officers who shot Jean Charles de Menezes choked with emotion today as he defended his colleagues in court.
Thousands of workers suffering from an asbestos-related disease lost a landmark compensation battle in the House of Lords today.
The United States Congress is backing off from its controversial plan to pass a resolution condemning the mass killing of Armenians in 1915 as genocide.
President Putin used an historic visit to Iran today to make the case against Western military action and help deliver a regional security guarantee for the Islamic republic.
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