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Iran repeatedly warned Australia about the criminal past of the perpetrator of the Sydney cafe siege and called for him to be kept under surveillance, top officials in Tehran said. Man Haron Monis, the Iranian-born self-styled cleric who died along

BRUSSELS (AP) — A European Union court on Wednesday ordered the Palestinian group Hamas removed from the EU terrorist list for procedural reasons, but says the bloc can maintain asset freezes against Hamas members. Hamas has been on the EU

European stock markets slid Wednesday after sharp gains the day before, while oil prices drifted to new lows, as investors awaited the outcome of the US Federal Reserve meeting. Oil prices extended their losses to fresh five-and-a-half-year lows, while the

Britain’s unemployment rate has remained at a five-year low of 6.0 percent while wages are rising, official data showed on Wednesday. The rate for the July-September period compares with 6.2 percent for the three months to the end of October,

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s lawmakers vote Wednesday in a crucial presidential election process that risks a government collapse if the sole candidate fails to win enough votes by Dec. 29. The vote comes amid stalled negotiations between bailed-out Greece

A 13-year-old boy is to appear in court on Wednesday charged with the murder of a middle-aged man in north London who died after a verbal altercation with a group of youngsters. Christopher John Barry was stabbed at his home

World powers resumed negotiations with Iran on Wednesday over Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme, more than three weeks after they last met and gave themselves another seven months to strike a deal. Political directors of the five permanent members of the

LONDON (AP) — The Church of England has named its first female bishop, promoting Libby Lane, a vicar in northwest England, to bishop of Stockport. The announcement comes five months after the church ended a long and divisive dispute by

The General Court of the European Union has removed Hamas from their list of terrorist organisations. But the effect of annulling the decision to name the group on the terror list are maintained temporarily, meaning that the funding freeze against

The Green party has polled two points ahead of the Liberal Democrats in a national poll on general election voting intentions. The latest YouGov poll for The Sun puts the Green party on 8 percent, and the Liberal Democrats on

As a consequence of the aggravated Scottish devolution conceded by Dave and the girlie men of our effete government and opposition, in a panic reaction to an isolated opinion poll in the closing stages of the independence referendum campaign, the

The chairman of the Conservative Party youth movement has said she is ‘ashamed’ of former Tory Chairman Sayeeda Warsi over her views on Gaza. Alexandra Paterson’s comments came at a private drinks reception in Conservative HQ last week as she

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s central bank raised its key interest rate to 17 percent from 10.5 percent early Tuesday in an emergency move to halt a collapse in the rouble as oil prices decline and the country’s sanctions-hit economy slides

France sought to stamp out a new electronic cigarette containing cannabis, launched Tuesday with the claim it provides all of the relaxation but none of the mind-altering effects of marijuana. Health Minister Marisol Touraine said the product would “incite the

LONDON, (Reuters) – British inflation fell to its lowest level in more than 12 years in November, further easing the squeeze on consumers and leaving the Bank of England under no pressure to raise interest rates. Reflecting a slide in

LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Plunging oil prices couldheighten geopolitical tensions, trigger defaults by U.S. shaleoil and gas firms and destabilise euro zone inflationexpectations, the Bank of England warned on Tuesday. In a half-yearly assessment of global financial risks, Britain’s

SYDNEY, Dec. 16 (UPI) — Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Tuesday that Sydney siege gunman Man Haron Monis was “well known” to authorities but wasn’t on a terror watch list. “I don’t believe he was on a terror watch

Fanatical pro Brussels Tory Lord Heseltine has predicted the UK will end up scrapping the pound and adopting the euro. In an interview with the BBC the former Deputy Prime Minister rejected the idea that pro-European voices had “lost the

Seven people were arrested in Spain and Morocco on Tuesday in a probe on a network recruiting women to join the jihadist Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. Spain’s interior ministry said four women, one of them a minor,

#illridewithyou is still trending on Twitter. So it would appear that the most important take-home message on social media about yesterday’s siege at the Lindt cafe in Sydney is not the fact that two innocent people – barrister Katrina Dawson

The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed the complaint of four attempted suicide bombers who said police denied them the right of access to a lawyer. The four men were arrested after bombs were detonated on the London transport

Judges at the European Court of Human Rights have ruled that ‘hearsay’ evidence can be used to convict someone in a trial. They were asked to investigate whether the human rights were breached in two criminal cases in the UK

Scottish teachers are being encouraged to report any concerns over the sexual wellbeing of their pupils to the child’s ‘Named Person’, or state guardian, but not to the child’s parents under new government guidelines. The advice has deepened concerns by

A German S&M film maker has been forced to go into hiding, thanks to the animal welfare organisation PETA who is prosecuting her for animal cruelty after she used her pet cat in a scene in one of her films.