Police forces have paid out more than £44 million in compensation and damages in the past five years, mostly to victims of alleged police misconduct, The Times has learnt.
Sustained spying assaults on Britain’s largest engineering company and on the world’s second-biggest oil multinational occurred earlier this year as part of a campaign to obtain confidential commercial information, sources said.
Britain’s big four mobile phone operators are being sued for up to £250 million by rival 3 over an alleged conspiracy to shut it out of the UK market by deterring customers wanting to switch to its network, The Times has learnt.
Police investigating four abortion clinics in Barcelona used frequently by British women have been horrified to find purpose-built machines attached to the drains that were used to crush foetuses.
President Vladimir Putin, ignoring criticism he is using his post for campaign purposes, told Russians on Thursday to vote for his United Russia party in Sunday´s parliamentary election.
President Hugo Chavez needs to rely on a vast get-out-the-vote machine to avoid an unprecedented defeat when Venezuelans cast ballots on Sunday in a referendum on letting him run for re-election indefinitely.
The latest challenge to the ban on hunting with dogs, was dismissed by the law lords yesterday when they ruled that the Hunting Act does not contravene human rights.
Britain was trying to defuse a potentially explosive diplomatic row with Sudan last night, after a British teacher who allowed a teddy bear to be named Mohamed was charged with insulting Islam and inciting hatred. She is due to appear in an Islamic court today. The alleged crime is punishable by 40 lashes, a six-month jail sentence and a fine.
U.S. customs officers did not violate the constitutional rights of five Muslim U.S. citizens returning from Canada who were detained and subjected to searches usually reserved for suspected terrorists, a court ruled on Monday.
Lord Neuberger´s report into access to the Bar says that students should be made to take a basic aptitude test in English
President Sarkozy helped to clinch the world’s largest commercial nuclear power contract yesterday, winning an agreement to sell French-designed reactors and atomic fuel worth nearly $12 billion to China.
Government plans to criminalise the stirring up of hatred against gays and lesbians are in disarray because of a Cabinet split over the need for such a law.
The wealthy businessman suspected of breaking the law by anonymously giving more than £380,000 to the Labour party through third parties today claimed that he had no idea he was doing anything wrong.
A class action law firm is claiming almost $700m (£340 million) in legal fees for its work helping investors recoup losses from the collapse of Enron. If approved, it would be the largest legal payday in US history.
Senior HSBC executives should be denied millions of pounds in bonuses next March because the bank’s incentive scheme was misrepresented to shareholders and was therefore void, according to a hard-hitting legal opinion.
U.S. President George W. Bush´s twilight effort to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians faces far more challenges than his predecessor Bill Clinton´s failed attempt in 2000.
Saboteurs raised the stakes in the stand-off over President Sarkozy’s reforms yesterday, staging a series of attacks on France´s high-speed rail network that further disrupted services already crippled by a week-long transport strike.
The anonymous e-mails and letters began dropping into inboxes and through front doors this summer.
Sports kit manufacturer and retailer say their financials will suffer after England´s European Championship disaster
The family of Diana´s driver have successfully challenged a decision to hear photographers´ evidence without cross-examination
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