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The European Commission approved Britain’s ambitious plan to build its first nuclear plant for a generation, with French and Chinese help, after ruling that it met state aid rules, a statement said on Monday. The Hinkley Point project, to be

Bahrain has rejected claims implicating its Prince Nasser bin Hamad al-Khalifa in acts of torture after a British court denied him immunity from prosecution over any such allegations. A British judge ruled on Tuesday that Prince Nasser, the king’s eldest

One of the men convicted of murdering the bride of British businessman Shrien Dewani described in chilling court testimony Wednesday how he was asked to set up a hit on the young woman. Mziwamadoda Qwabe told the Cape Town High

An Australian opera company is refusing to show a production of Georges Bizet’s Carmen because it is set in a factory that manufactures cigarettes. Australia’s ABC reports that West Australia Opera made the decision after receiving $400,000 from Healthway, a

Migrants living rough near the port of Calais in France have turned down free food hand-outs, claiming the food on offer was not spicy enough for their tastes in an incident branded “very disappointing” by charity workers. A small group

Animal rights activists have launched an attack in support of the grey squirrel. Only weeks after hard line animal rights charities scorned celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall for revealing his family shoots and cooks greys, a vegetarian group and the RSPCA

Opposing wind farms is “irrational”, claimed Liberal Democrat MP Vince Cable at his party conference yesterday. Actually, no. Here are some reasons why anyone who doesn’t oppose wind farms is most probably either deluded, criminal or insane. 1. Wind turbines

A British father has claimed his arrest and 21-day imprisonment in Morocco was the result of an attempt to blackmail him for being gay. Ray Cole, 69 was arrested with his friend Jamal Jam Wald Nass after police in Morocco

The British candidate for European commissioner was today hit by accusations of selling a “fairy tale” as he faced MEPs for the second time. The former leader of the House of Lords opened the second hearing by offering his hopes

EDINBURGH (Reuters) – A ship carrying radioactive concrete that had to shut down its engine in the North Sea after its funnel caught fire was stable on Wednesday and being towed to the northeastern coast of Scotland, the British coastguard

HONG KONG (AP) — When Beijing cracked down on student protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989, Bobby Yim was among many in Hong Kong who sympathized with the demonstrators and angrily denounced the Chinese government. But 25 years later, his

A marigold and magenta mohawk adorning his shaven skull, Chinese punk rocker Shan Lin has a subversive message in a country that suppresses dissent — a rebel with a cause. A T-shirt sold by the group SMZB set the tone

LONDON (Reuters) – A pioneering cannabis drug developed by British firm GW Pharmaceuticals for treating spasticity in multiple sclerosis has been rejected as not cost-effective in the company’s home market. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which

VIENNA (AP) — Iranian dissidents say that Tehran is still researching nuclear arms at facilities it relocated to escape detention. The Mujahedin-e Khalk, or MEK, cites Iranian government sources it did not identify. It said Wednesday that Iran’s Organization of

Various commentators have recently started to talk about a “move to the left” and  “departure of libertarianism” within UKIP. As a member of UKIP’s Board of Directors (we call it the National Executive Committee) I want to map out where

Police and MI5 have foiled what would have been the first ISIS terror attack in the UK, it has emerged. Four men were arrested yesterday morning in connection with terror offences, but the full scale of their plot has only

A leading human rights charity has alleged that the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is causing the displacement of traditional tribal people by funding squads who “beat and kill” natives for living in newly established “conservation zones” designated to protect wildlife.

The cause of climate alarmism has been struck another near-fatal blow by a new study from a NASA research team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Using a combination of satellite observations and direct measurements taken by a

The Danish Foreign Ministry has altered its publicised travel information for 28 Muslim countries thanks to their military involvement against ISIS in Iraq and the general atmosphere in those countries. Although Danes are not explicitly advised to avoid the countries,

The brother of the latest ISIS hostage to be murdered has called on the British government to send in ground forces to defeat his killers. Reg Henning said that he had been through a “living a nightmare” but had been

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission will criticise Turkey on Wednesday for failing to safeguard the independence of its judges and wants to have more discussion on rights in Ankara’s bid to join the European Union, according a senior EU

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, the department tasked with collecting taxes from the British public, has been undertaking psychological experiments unbeknownst to the British people, in order to work out how best to elicit the tax payments as quickly as

Are you sitting comfortably? Ready for a shock? Right then – hard to believe though it is, it turns out that the Department for Energy And Climate Change (DECC) has made a fundamental error and it is going to cost

Almost a third of English people are too embarrassed to fly their national flag – the cross of St George – due to its associations with lower class culture and the far right. The Daily Mail reports that social anthropologist

Only 2 in every 10 Catalans back the controversial referendum for Catalan independence from Spain, due to be held on the 9th November, a new poll has found. The referendum is currently the subject of ongoing clashes between the Spanish