Washington has agreed to move thousands of US marines off Japan’s southern island of Okinawa despite lack of progress on a controversial base relocation

By now, most of you are familiar with the revolt currently going on against the Assad regime in Syria, which is being suppressed with great brutality. Literally thousands have been killed by Assad's forces, beefed up with Hezbollah fighters from next door Lebanon. Recently, a UN Security Council resolution backed by the Arab League that condemned the violence and called for Syrian leader Bash...

Thousands of "faceless" officials should lose the right to gain entry to people's homes without a warrant, under legal changes demanded by the House of Lords tonight.

This weekend, thousands of people defied the cold and the control in Moscow to show their dislike for Vladimir Putin and what Russia has become under his leadership: corrupt, energy-reliant, centralised, and uncompetitive. It is now a country that must win externally because it can't help but lose internally. ‘Post-BRIC’, as a new report has it. My guess is that Putin will ‘...

A spoof video of an interview with a woman suffering from "Lazy Cow" syndrome, claiming thousands in benefits and needing heroin and cocaine treatment has become an internet hit.

Periods after which convicted criminals no longer have to declare their past offending to be significantly cut, says Kenneth Clarke.

At least 20,000 people have been wrongly labelled as criminals or accused of more serious offences because of blunders by the police and the Criminal Records Bureau.

Luciana Berger MP, Labour’s Shadow Climate Change Minister, has criticised Energy and Climate Change Ministers for spending over £70,000 on away days to private members clubs, hotels, Fulham FC’s Craven Cottage Stadium and the London Wetlands Centre.  

What does democracy look like? How about this: a governor, swept into office on the GOP wave of 2010 with a financial assist from the billionaire Koch brothers, pivots immediately from moderate talk about job creation to radical austerity that divides his state more than any in the Union. He attacks the collective bargaining rights of public workers and teachers. When hundreds of thousands of citi...

Thousands of young people have decided against applying to university because of the introduction of tuition fees of up to £9,000 a year, official figures will confirm today.