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LONDON (Reuters) – The opposition Labour party has elected former cabinet minister Jim Murphy as its new leader in Scotland, five months before a national election in which the party faces a tough battle to retain its Scottish seats to

Hong Kong police said Saturday they will clear out the last pro-democracy protest site early next week, days after the main camp was dismantled with over 200 demonstrators arrested.  The protest area in the retail hub of Causeway Bay is

Britain’s media was shocked today after it emerged that UKIP attempted to win the support of a man described by Margaret Thatcher as “the best parliamentarian I ever knew”. The Telegraph reports that, in the early years of UKIP, Nigel

All hail Jean-Claude Juncker, the man who would be King of Europe. Or already is, depending on your interpretation of the divine rights of monarchs and the gift of absolute power. On Thursday the European Commission president warned the UK

The 12-day UN climate change summit in Peru has generated more carbon dioxide than an entire African country. The talks, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, generated more than 50,000 tonnes of CO2, as more than 12,500 politicians, green

Pope Francis has given four legged friends across the world an early Christmas present by saying that “Paradise is open to all God’s creatures”. In his weekly audience in The Vatican, His Holiness quoted the apostle Paul who told a

Half of all new laws to appear on the statute books come from European Union directives including ‘offences’ on olive oil which threatened small producers, restaurants and cafes, according to The Times. The Ministry of Justice has produced figures which

Last year, the government created a new £148 million fund to improve cycling networks across Britain. With the intention of spending the money by 2015, it included £77 million to be split across some of the UK’s largest cities, and

Belgium on Friday laid to rest its much-loved former queen Fabiola, the widow of the popular King Baudoin, in a rain-lashed funeral ceremony attended by royals from across Europe and Asia. Japan’s Empress Michiko, Denmark’s Queen Margrethe, Sweden’s King Carl

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was sworn into office on Friday, cementing his status as the leading candidate to succeed his 90-year-old boss Robert Mugabe, the country’s sole ruler since independence from Britain in 1980. Mnangagwa, nicknamed

A deadly mortar attack Friday near the Iraqi city of Karbala stoked security concerns as millions of Shiite pilgrims gathered for one of the largest religious gatherings in the world. A medical source in the holy city of Karbala confirmed

VIENNA (Reuters) – The European Union’s chief executive has given Greeks a stark and unusual warning of major problems if they vote the “wrong” way and radicals win an early parliamentary election. Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission,

Airspace above London was temporarily closed and then severely restricted Friday afternoon following a major computer failure in an air traffic control centre in southern England. Britain’s National Air Traffic Service (NATS) said a failure at its centre in Swanwick

TOKYO, Dec. 12 (UPI) — Japanese officials said a butter shortage threatening traditional Christmas sponge cakes was caused by cows being worn out by the hot summer. Some stores are limiting butter purchases to one pack per customer and they

The Guardian’s environmental blogger George Monbiot has written an article claiming that whales should be conserved because their poo helps to mitigate climate change. He takes this as “refutation of the idea that we can manipulate the living world with

Celebrity horticulturist Alan Titchmarsh has found a variety of mushroom known for its hallucinogenic effect growing in the Queen’s garden at Buckingham Palace. The TV gardener, along with ecologist Professor Mick Crawley, was looking at the different species of plants

So much for the Prime Minister demonstrating he is serious about reforming the EU! David Cameron has announced it is still his ‘long-standing goal’ to bring Turkey into the European Union – despite the complete disaster this would be for

Less than a week after police officers and armed forces personnel were told not to wear their uniforms whilst off duty, including on the way in to work, children in the army cadet forces have been issued with the same

James had a nasty case of The Man Flu. But because he’s a man (and a journalist) he endured. This week Toby Young joins Radio Free Delingpole to explore the report on CIA torture and interrogation techniques, and Toby reminds us that

Richard Desmond, owner of Express Newspapers, is set to donate £300,000 to UKIP before next year’s General Election. Sky News reports that Mr Desmond pledged to give the money to Nigel Farage’s party in a move that will bolster UKIP’s

Immigrants have been travelling hundreds of miles to take their ‘Life in the UK’ citizenship test – a requirement for gaining British citizenship – at a centre that was fixing the results, guaranteeing all applicants passes. The revelation comes a

A candidate who was in the running to replace Greg Barker as MP for Bexhill and Battle faced a “double whammy of being brown and a woman”, according to the branch president. London barrister Suella Fernandes came third in the

A Labour MP has kicked off a sexism row after he suggested that the post of fisheries minister would be unsuitable for a woman. Frank Doran made the remarks in a Commons debate on the fishing industry and tried to

In remote bogland in Ireland, investigators search the ground with radar and a cadaver dog for a victim of the IRA murdered and secretly buried in 1972. They mark out grid areas and put down probes at half-metre intervals for

The UN voiced “serious concern” about the Taliban’s persistent threat after the group killed seven people in two suicide attacks in Kabul Thursday, including one targeting a play at a French-financed high school. The warning comes with the Afghan capital