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The earthquake that ripped through Nepal early on Saturday morning has now claimed more than 3,200 lives, with aftershocks triggering a second avalanche on Mouth Everest. The UK’s foreign office has confirmed there are no reports of Britons being injured

The acting mayor of the London borough of Tower Hamlets has appeared to blame the vote-rigging scandal that brought down Lutfur Rahman on “institutional racism”. Oliur Rahman – no relation to Lutfur – told the BBC there was deep-seated racism

UKIP is set to take the seat of Thurrock from the Conservatives at next month’s general election as a new poll puts the party four points ahead of Labour, with the Tories in third place. The latest Lord Ashcroft polling

James May has confirmed he has quit Top Gear just weeks after fellow presenter Jeremy Clarkson was sacked for hitting a producer. May left the long-running motor show when his contract expired last month, but has only now gone public

Police have released the first images from inside the vault raided in the Hatton Garden jewel heist, showing the chaotic scenes left behind. Thieves raided the vault over the Easter weekend earlier this month and broke into 72 deposit boxes,

Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps has been accused of secretly editing Wikipedia to promote himself and add unflattering details about his rivals. Shapps is alleged to have been behind the account Contribsx, which has continually deleted embarrassing information about the

The backlash against Britain’s top prosecutor is growing after she decided that Labour peer Lord Janner will not face charges of child abuse due to poor health. Janner stands accused 22 offences against nine victims, but Director of Public Prosecutions

Support for the Green Party among students has fallen dramatically since the start of the election campaign, a new poll suggests. The survey of 1,000 full-time students by YouthSight found the Greens’ support on campuses across Britain has fallen from

The Scottish National Party has threatened to hold Britain’s armed forces to ransom by potentially blocking the military budget if it ends up propping up a Labour government after the general election. Stewart Hosie, SNP deputy leader, said yesterday that

Jim Murphy, the leader of the Labour Party in Scotland, is trailing the Scottish National Party (SNP) by nine points in his seat of East Renfrewshire, according to new polling by Lord Ashcroft. In a poll of voting intentions in

The leader of Spain’s Socialist Party has been compared to Homer Simpson after accidentally voting in favour of an anti-abortion law he had strongly opposed. Pedro Sánchez voted for the law, which requires girls under the age of 18 to

Despite their party’s professed love for the environment and hatred of CO2 emissions, Green Party supporters are most likely to book a long-haul holiday, according to a new poll. The survey by website Travelzoo also found that Green supporters were

Britain is paying aid staff up to £1,000 a day in order to meet the government’s spending targets on foreign aid. Spending on outside ‘consultants’ has risen to £1.4bn in the past four years, taking up more than 10 per

Liverpool Football Club is to ‘take action’ against a fan who tweeted a picture of two Muslim men praying at a Premier League stadium with the hashtag ‘#disgrace’. Stephen Dodd tweeted the image with the caption: “Muslims praying at half-time

Home-sick European jihadists have been sneaking junk food such as Burger King, Oreos and Pringles across the Turkish border into Syria to satisfy their desperate cravings for Western food. The terrorists have been posting images of the food on Twitter,

All internet pornography faces a ban in Russia after a court in the Tatarstan region ordered the country’s state-controlled internet watchdog to block 136 websites hosting “pornographic material”, citing laws drawn up in 1910 and 1923. The court ordered the

Britain is to extradite a Basque terrorist accused of murdering 22 people to face justice in Spain. A judge ruled on Tuesday that Antonio Troitiño, who spent 24 years in Spanish prisons, should be sent back to the country. Troitiño

The thieves who stole millions of pounds worth of jewellery from safety deposit building in London may have been inspired by 1990s crime novel, analysts have said. The Times reports that Criminologist Richard Hoskins said there were “curious and numerous”

The number of exorcists in England is growing following a rise in demonic possession, the Times reports. A priest who is one of four Britons to attend an exorcism course in Rome said that most Catholic dioceses in England now

UK authorities are to investigate up to 50 schools set by extremists for being “anti-British”. Many of these schools were started by a teacher who was embroiled in the “Trojan Horse” scandal last year, where Islamist extremists reportedly tried to

The ‘special relationship’ between the US and the UK is under increasing strain and could be reassessed, a secret briefing document has revealed. The memo, seen by the Mail on Sunday, is addressed to members of Congress ahead of next

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is being run by “secular extremists” who do not share the vales of the general public, UKIP’s Douglas Carswell has said. Speaking after the CPS decided to block an attempt to prosecute two doctors for

Europeans who join Islamic State often commit the most violent atrocities in order to “prove themselves” to their commanders, a former prisoner has revealed. The prisoner, who has only been named as Omar, had been held by the terror group

A Labour Party parliamentary candidate called people who fly England flags “simpletons” and “casual racists” and called for their cars to be damaged. Huw Thomas, who is standing in Ceredigion in Wales, made the comments in a blog post about

Almost 40 percent of British Muslims think MI5 and the police are at least partly to blame for radicalising teenagers who flee the country to join Islamic State, a survey has revealed. The poll by Survation for Sky News also

James Bond would have lasted just seven minutes into the movie Skyfall before dying, a group of doctors has said. Bruce Willis’s character John McClane would also have been killed in the Die Hard films, while Kevin would have died

Daring thieves stole up to £200 million worth of diamonds and jewels from a safe deposit building after cutting through the roof, abseiling down a lift shaft and using heavy cutting equipment to break into 60 to 70 deposit boxes,

Nine British Muslims who were caught trying to flee to Syria should not bother coming home as they are no longer welcome, Labour’s Simon Danczuk has said. The politician, who is standing for re-election as MP for Rochdale, said that

A Slovakian nun has been removed from teaching after allegedly stabbing a boy in the hand with a needle to show him how Jesus suffered. The Mirror reports that Sister Ludovita had been teaching religion classes at a school in

The BBC has received criticism after it made a computer game about Syrian refugees trying to flee to European from the war-torn country. The online game, called Syrian Journey, tasks players with escaping the Middle East by a variety of

Hundreds of British teenagers are at risk of radicalisation as they see Islamic State as ‘pop idols’ like Justin Bieber and One Direction, the country’s top Muslim prosecutor has said. Nazir Afzal warned that ‘another 7/7’ could happen unless Britain

Scottish First Minister and nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon would privately prefer David Cameron to remain as Prime Minister, the Telegraph has claimed. The paper claims to have seen a leaked memo that includes details of a private meeting between Ms

A Muslim father has been found guilty of one count of assault and five counts of racially or religiously aggravated behaviour after storming into a Catholic school and launching a tirade of abuse at teachers after two Muslim students were

Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately accelerated his plane into the French Alps, data from the plane’s second black box has revealed. French prosecutors said: “A first reading shows that the pilot in the cockpit used the automatic pilot to descend

There were chaotic scenes outside a London mosque yesterday as supporters of radical cleric Anjem Choudary, who had been telling Muslims not to vote, clashed with members of the English Defence League (EDL) and Britain First (BF) during Friday prayers.

Christians in Britain feel forced to hide their faith out of fear of being seen as “intolerant”, “superstitious” and even “accessories to child abuse”, the government Chief Whip has said. Michael Gove said that such is the hostility to religion