With the Occupy movement set to go global Saturday, tensions between protesters and police have reached a critical point in Denver, with riot police issuing a "final warning" for the protesters to disperse. Meanwhile, thousands gathered before dawn at the original Occupy Wall Street site in New York to resist a threatened eviction.
The mystery of how Adam Werritty funded his jet-set £147,000 lifestyle around the world has been answered.
The police force that investigated the murder of Milly Dowler have been accused of knowing that the schoolgirls phone was illegally hacked as far back as 2002.
Oliver Letwin, the Cabinet Office Minister, has been seen dumping government documents into park bins near 10 Downing Street.
New York police are attempting to forcibly evict Occupy Wall Street protesters just days before the protest was set to become a world revolution.
Liberia is to release a first batch of official results on Thursday from its hotly contested presidential election.
Alongside reports that the movement has collected $150,000 in private donations, Occupy Wall Street and the host of groups associated with it has put out a global call-to-arms, asking all like-minded individuals to join it on 15 October, turning a host of isolated protests into a "world revolution."
Paris prosecutors have dropped charges of attempted rape brought against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan by French journalist Tristane Banon.
The British Prime Minster has become the latest high profile member to join the social media network Linkedin Downing Street revealed today.
Captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is expected to return to Israel via Egypt by next Wednesday, Palestinian sources and Israeli media have said.
Berlusconi has asked parliament for a confidence vote that will allow him to continue leading the centre-right coalition amid concerns for his political future.
Unconfirmed reports in the Egyptian press have said Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit has already been handed over the Egyptian authorities, amid speculation as to the captive's whereabouts.
Mitt Romney currently leads the field vying for the Republican presidential nomination as Barack Obama faces deep disappointment from voters, a new poll suggests.
A senior Tory councillor has been suspended after suggesting that the Government "may as well legalise marriage with animals" in response to David Cameron's support over same-sex marriage.
Unconfirmed reports that one of Col Muammar Gaddafi's sons has been captured in Sirte have caused confusion after a Libyan spokesman said that there was no information that Mutassim Gaddafi had been seized.
A bomb was detonated outside the City of Culture office in Derry, Northern Ireland on Wednesday night, police said.
With the Occupy the London Stock Exchange protest set to begin on Saturday, critics have begun to question whether, given its recent track record with the student protests and August riots, UK police forces will be able to handle another protest.
He's a Walter Mitty character who enjoys masquerading as something he is not, according to friends
In a press conference on Wednesday Egyptian military leaders delivered their official version of Sunday's events, which has been widely discredited by journalist, witnesses and activists at the scene.
An Israeli Cabinet Minister who voted against the historic prisoner swap deal with Hamas denounced on Wednesday the agreement as a "huge victory for terror".
Staggering around covered in fake blood, eating bank notes and uttering gutteral moans on the state of the economy, demonstrators dressed as "corporate zombies" are making a stand against Wall Street bankers.
The U.S. has vowed to put increasing pressure on the Islamic state as Iran continues to strongly deny accusations of its involvement in a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the U.S.
Judges have condemned government rules to withhold visas for under 21s as a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The prime minister, David Cameron, has asked MPs to have a “little patience” in response to questions surrounding the defence secretary Liam Fox and his personal friend Adam Werritty.
Perhaps the most famous prisoner in the Middle East, Gilad Shalit (or rather, the campaign for his release) has proved a powerful rallying point for Israeli's over the past five years. But the young soldier has also been used as a political pawn by the Israeli government to justify their blockade of the Gaza strip.
Friends and colleagues of Liam Fox have hit out against a round of fresh allegations linking the Defence Secretary to "wild gossip"
The Occupy protests sweeping across America will spread to British shores Saturday, organizers say, with thousands of individuals pledging to march on the London Stock Exchange.
Returning last Friday, 07 November from a family wedding in Canada, I grabbed The Independent and read that News Corp had set up an 'Alert-line' for staff to whistleblow on suspicious colleagues. News Corp's Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer, Eugenia C Gavenchak stressed that all employees are under an obligation to report any of their workmates that they suspect of violating a presumably beefed up ethics code, following on from the recent phone-hacking scandal which led to the closur...
The news that Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will soon be released after five years being held captive by militant Palestinians has provoked strong reactions across the world. Here we take a look at the way the story has been covered in the U.S., the U.K., and the Middle East.
Following the exposure of an alleged Iranian terror plot to murder the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the U.S., the State Department has warned of the potential for terrorist attacks against U.S. interests.
