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In England’s most northerly town, local people are looking over the border to Scotland and worrying about what would happen if it votes for independence next month. Berwick-upon-Tweed changed hands between England and Scotland 13 times in medieval border wars

Kabul, August 13 (QNA) – At least 80 Taliban militants including their local commanders were killed following counter-terrorism operations in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan. The Ministry of Interior said in a statement that the militants were killed in

Prominent Jewish group the Simon Wiesenthal Centre has sent a letter to France’s interior minister to demand that a tiny hamlet south of Paris called “La Mort aux Juifs”, or “Death to Jews”, be renamed. The group’s director of international

Pro ISIS agitators have been pictured in one of London’s busiest tourist districts, Oxford Street, this afternoon. The gaggle of men were standing in front of signs that read ‘Khilafah’ (caliphate) ‘The Dawn of a new Era’. They were said

An Italian scientist has said that head transplants may be possible, after claiming to have had a “major breakthrough”. The Local reports that Sergio Canavero, a neuroscientist, said it may be possible to merge bone marrow when fusing one person’s

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that British prisoners who were denied the vote should not receive compensation. The Guardian reports that the court was ruling on a case brought by 10 prisoners in Scotland, including convicted

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State insurgents who seized a Lebanese border town this month planned to turn Lebanon into another Iraq by unleashing sectarian war between Sunnis and Shi’ites that would have endangered the nation’s very existence, the army commander

As Russian retaliation for Western sanctions bites across the European Union, Greece’s Foreign Ministry has expressed indignation at non-EU member Turkey boosting food exports at the continent’s expense, according to EurActiv. The initial sanctions were hastily applied by Western countries,

White Dee, the woman made famous by a Channel 4 Television Show about benefit claimants in Birmingham, is to speak at Conservative Party Conference on Welfare Reform, according to the Daily Mail. Deirdre “Dee” Kelly is being hailed by the

Labour’s seven percent lead in an ICM poll yesterday could be enough to put Ed Miliband in 10 Downing Street next year, according to analysis by Mike Smithson of Political Betting. Smithson points to a pattern in polling over the

Robin Williams is dead and I can’t remember when I felt quite so cut up about the premature death of a Hollywood star. This is particularly odd given that I never could stand a single one of his movies I

Palestinian protesters in London have been subjected to a tirade of abuse at the hands of some angry football fans, as they marched through the city. A video posted on the Evening Standard website showed activists walking past The Green Man pub

Here’s something to make you choke on your cornflakes: the Guardian has returned to the subject of menstruation. In a widely-read editorial yesterday, the paper informed us that tampons should be made free for any woman who decides it’s beneath her

Today is the ‘Glorious Twelfth’, the start of the grouse shooting season in Britain, with the sport under greater scrutiny than ever before. A petition by hard line animal rights activists to ban the traditional sport has received over 10,000

Run, run as fast as you can? It would seem that despite the dismissive tough talking of some Conservatives, those on the frontline against UKIP are collectively bottling it. Mark Simmonds yesterday announced that he is to step down from

MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, 75, the first European infected by a strain of Ebola that has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa, has died in hospital in Madrid, a spokeswoman for the city’s health authorities

An enterprising British businessman who built a private road when authorities failed to repair a damaged public route quickly enough has been hit by heavy charges from his local council. Mike Watts, from Somerset in south west England, decided to

A former Pentagon adviser has appeared on BBC News and claimed the once feared Kurdish Peshmerga fighters now get “winded when they run to the nearest Kebab stand”.  Michael Rubin from the American Enterprise Institute was explaining why the Kurds

MOSCOW (AP) — A convoy of 280 Russian trucks headed for eastern Ukraine early Tuesday, one day after agreement was reached on an international humanitarian relief mission. But the international Red Cross, which is due to coordinate the operation, said

Overshadowed by the noisy departure of Baroness Warsi, another recently liberated Conservative is causing problems for his former boss, albeit in a slightly more subtle manner. While Warsi’s weapon of choice was the Sunday Times front page, Owen Paterson’s chosen

The head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Gina McCarthy has said in an interview that she believes “climate science” ought to be included in the school curriculum. “Very much so,” she says. “I think part of the challenge

British authorities are planning to burn 8.5 million illegal cigarettes to produce power for the National Grid, according to the Daily Mail. The cigarettes were seized after an inspection of a container from Malaysia that was supposed to contain fabric.

A member of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs committee has called for immediate British air strikes to halt the advance of the ISIS in Iraq. Andrew Rosindell MP made the comments as the government announced it would use RAF

A record 1.6 million people are paying the top rate of tax, first intended to tax Britain’s big earners. A quarter of all teachers and a third of police officers are now paying the tax, according to the Daily Mail. Earners