Tom Nicolson

The prime minister signed off the 2011 political year by poking fun at the Labour leader Ed Miliband, saying that his party "were united in wanting a new leader".

Children aged between 10 and 11 are fatter than ever, NHS figures have shown.

The shadow foreign office minister, Emma Reynolds, told MPs last night that the government is "deeply divided" over Europe and that the Prime Minister, David Cameron, and his deputy, Nick Clegg, "are at odds with each other".

James Murdoch has admitted that he received an email revealing the practices of phone hacking but denies having read “the whole chain” which would have revealed that News of the World journalists were illegally accessing voice messages from people’s phones.

The world famous toy store, Hamleys, has hit back at claims from feminist groups that “they forced the toy store to change their sexist toy signs.”

UK inflation has fallen from the 5.2 per cent mark in October to 4.8 per cent last month bringing a welcome respite to the Bank of England.

The scale of the divide between the Prime Minister, David Cameron, and his coalition deputy, Nick Clegg, over the decision to veto the EU treaty was for all to see as the Liberal Democrat leader failed to showup for the summit statement in the Commons.

The deputy prime minster, Nick Clegg, is “completely off the wall” in criticising the prime minister’s veto at the EU summit and has made his position in the Coalition government “untenable”, according to influential Tory backbencher Bill Cash.

The Prime Minister, David Cameron, will look to calm nerves within his fractured Coalition government when he addresses the MPs today.

The prime minister’s decision today to pull Britain to the point of EU departure, may have won a few hearts in the mean time, but the decision to “look after the interests of Britain” may have seriously damaged the UK’s long term economy.

Tom Nicolson reports from Brussels in one of the most significant moments for the UK’s 38 year history with Europe.

The British Prime Minster is to sit down for dinner with the leaders of the EU and start 24 hours of negotiating to get the best possible deal for the UK.

The central banks of Europe have begun preparing contingency plans to re-print old currencies should the euro perish amidst the eurozone crisis.

Momentum is gathering across all political stripes for the Prime minister to call a referendum on the EU if a new treaty is signed.

The prime minister, David Cameron, intends to “safeguard” the interests of Britain at the EU Summit which begins tomorrow but risks upsetting allies at home and abroad.

Marathon runners risk "scarring their hearts" after new research suggests that extreme physical activity could have damaging effects on the right ventricle.

A man, who tried to mug a martial arts champion, was beaten to a pulp by the man he chose to rob.

Influential Tory backbencher, Bill Cash, accused the prime minister of “bypassing the British people” by refusing to call an EU Referendum.

The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has acceded to German demands and is now advocating a new treaty to integrate the eurozone member states.

A member of Network Rail’s governing body has said its bosses do not deserve bonuses to bring the company in line with the deputy prime ministers crackdown on top executive pay.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicholas Sarkozy are meeting in Paris Monday in an eleventh-hour bid to save the euro from total collapse.

Zeros or heroes the IBTimes looks at the most influential players from the home nations of next year's Euro 2012

Nick Clegg can play for Ukraine, boys soak attractive girls with water balloons, and Kiev's most popular hotel.

The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has hinted that Europe might become a “United States of Europe” after advocating a “fiscal union” policy within the eurozone.

A BBC article, written a year prior to Greece joining the single currency in 2002, made alarmingly accurate warnings about the country's future.

With just under a week before the European Commission, the eurozone is on a knife edge. The International Business Times UK outlines the possible scenarios for the euro in 2012.

Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been forced into an apology for saying public sector workers should be shot for striking, following an onslaught of over 5,000 complaints.

In an interview with the International BusinessTimes, the shadow Europe Minister, Emma Reynolds, has launched a scathing attack on the prime minister’s handling of the euro crisis.

Manufacturing in the UK is shrinking at its fastest rate for almost two and a half years in a trend that is likely to lead to more job losses.