Tom Nicolson

The government has imposed its toughest financial sanctions yet on Iran by cutting off all financial ties with its banks amidst fresh concerns that it is developing its nuclear programme .

As the Occupy London movement looks sets to continue in the courts, critics are suggesting that the protesters simply pack up and go home. But can a protester take this argument to Parliament by becoming an MP?

Having fought an election campaign for six months on a bitter message of austerity, the new Spanish Prime Minister and leader of the Popular Party, Mariano Rajoy, now faces the difficult part.

Jailed Adrian Prout finally admitted he murdered his wife, Kate, last week. He was then convinced to show police where he had hidden the body on the 276-acre farm where he committed the murder.

The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, avoided questions on whether any agreements were reached over the implementation of an EU wide financial transaction tax (FTT).

A captain who had jammed himself in the toilet caused a terrorist scare that very nearly led to a full scale military reaction.

Occupy Wall Street protesters and police have clashed on a day of bitterness and violence in America’s financial capital.

The lawyer representing the Occupy London protest is ready for a High Court showdown on Wednesday should the City of London refuse to enter negotiations.

The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, defended the role of the British intelligent operations praising the “incredible abilities” of agents and intelligent officers that worked for the secret services at MI5 and MI6.

A government immigration advisory think tank has recommended the UK begin slowing the amount of foreign spouses coming into the UK to halt the “burden” on the benefit system.

The prime minister, David Cameron, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, are being attacked at home and abroad over their decision to oppose an EU Financial Transaction Tax (FTT).

The Home Affairs Select Committee will seek further information over the details of what happened between the home secretary, Theresa May, the former head of the UKBA, Brodie Clark and his boss, the UKBA chief executive Rob Whiteman.

The former head of the UK Border Agency, Brodie Clark, has flatly denied the allegations that “he went beyond ministerial consent” by privately widening the controversial pilot scheme - a statement that contradicts Theresa May’s, the Home Secretary, view of affairs.

Four men, including three teenagers, have been arrested in Birmingham under the Terrorism Act as a part of a major terror probe in the region.

GOP Frontrunner Herman Cain in Embarrassing Video Leak.

The new defence secretary, Philip Hammond, has told MPs that ground-to-air missiles may well be used as a form of defence against terrorism during the Olympic Games next summer.

Confidence among Britain’s households of a recovery is hanging by a thread, according to a YouGov poll.

The Labour party has changed course on Europe, adopting a policy more consistent with that of the Conservatives rather than a Europhile centre-left party.

In an interview with International Business Times, Tory Peer and former shadow treasury secretary Lord Flight described the current EU model as corrupt. He offered three possible scenarios for a New Order.

The International Business Times is marking Remembrance Day with a series of forgotten stories of war. By 1945 victory in Europe was assured but in the Far East the Empire of Japan was still making headway. The Battle of Meiktila in the jungles of Burma, however, marked a turning point in the region where intelligent British tactics, then bravery and mettle saw off a Japanese Army considerably bigger in size.

A new Greek Prime Minister has finally been sworn in, nearly a week since the government fell apart over disagreements surrounding the Euro crisis.

The Duke and Duchess Cambridge attended a black-tie reception in aid of the National Memorial Arboretum Appeal at St James's Palace.

Rick Perry's debate meltdown last night went down as one of the all-time political blunders. The IBTimes countdown the top seven.

The chief executive of News Corp, James Murdoch, accused his former colleagues at News of the World of misleading a parliamentary committee over the phone hacking scandal.

Follow our minute by minute blog live from Westminster as the son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch faces a grilling from MPs

As James Murdoch prepares for a second line of questioning from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, one of the key investors of News Corp, Julie Tanner of CBIS, remembers the AGM where democracy fought back against the Murdoch family.

Fifa has reversed its decision not to allow England to wear poppies in their friendly match against Spain on Saturday.

The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, branded the border controversy, where thousands of immigrants from outside the EU entered the country without proper passport checks, as a fiasco.

As the final twilight of George Papandreou’s premiership dims for good, The IBTimes reveals in an exclusive interview with a source close to the former prime minister, what life was like for the Pasok leader.