The government has been asked to stop giving foreign aid to countries where Christian persecution is rife without ensuring that the money reaches Christians in need. Britain currently gives £12 billion in aid abroad, but little of that reaches Christians
Milan (AFP) – A former Serie B player with links to a “gypsy gang” that placed illegal bets on Asian betting networks has revealed how he corrupted up to 60 professional players before being snared by police wire taps. Carlo
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa plans to leave the International Criminal Court, a deputy minister said on Sunday, as the government faces criticism for ignoring a court order to arrest Sudan’s president earlier this year. The International Criminal Court has “lost
The chairman of the ‘Stronger In’ campaign to keep Britain in the European Union made an epic blunder this morning, claiming that membership of the European Union saves every person in Britain £480 million a year. Multi-millionaire Lord Rose spoke
A cross-party campaign that will lead the fight for Britain to remain in the European Union ahead of a referendum due by 2017 is to launch on Monday. The “Britain Stronger in Europe” campaign will be led by businessman Stuart
Two Britons were among five NATO troops killed in a helicopter crash in Kabul, a second blow for British forces after a Taliban suicide bomber targeted their convoy in the capital. The incidents came just two weeks after the resurgent
“We want to give them the basic language skills to make [a] meaningful contribution to the city. What is wrong with that?… In terms of UKIP, it’s typical immigrant bashing. It almost borderlines on racism.” These are the weasel words
The world’s biggest book fair opens Wednesday under a cloud of controversy with Iran calling on all Muslim nations to boycott the exhibition because author Salman Rushdie has been invited to speak. Organisers of the Frankfurt Book Fair defended the
BRUSSELS, Belgium – David Cameron will have an expectant but not especially patient, or even attentive, audience when he meets fellow European Union (EU) leaders at a summit in Brussels at the end of this week. “Waiting for David” has
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey is targeting Islamic State in investigations of a double suicide bombing in Ankara that killed up to 128 people, officials said on Sunday, while opponents of President Tayyip Erdogan blamed him for the worst such attack in
The Socialist party held on to Vienna city hall in a municipal election on Sunday, fighting off a challenge from a right-wing populist party campaigning on Austrian concerns over mass migration.
Channel 4 has revealed a transgender schoolteacher will feature in the soap opera Hollyoaks, just two days after the BBC announced they would introduce a transgender character into their flagship drama Eastenders. A few weeks before, the BBC launched the
Concerns are being raised after Pope Francis gave a place of honour at the ongoing Synod on the Family to an ultra-liberal cardinal who tried to cover up a sex abuse scandal and has admitted trying to undermine the previous
The number of quasi-religious “witchcraft” and exorcism related child abuse cases has nearly triple in just three years. The phenomenon of children being accused of “possession” and “witchcraft” is most commonly seen in West African and South Asian immigrant communities.
The anti-mass migration Austrian Freedom Party (FPO) could be on the verge of winning local elections in Vienna, a city that has voted socialist for 70 years. Amid growing concern over the migrant crisis, Viennese voters are turning to the
Three women have spoken out against the suspended former Tory party candidate at the centre of a bullying investigation following the suicide of a young activist. Two accuse him sexual assault, and it is alleged he “liked rough sex” and
Britain’s Home Office has written to local authorities telling them not to provide ‘luxury’ items, such as TVs and DVD players, to asylum seekers. There has been criticism in recent months of the high standards of living asylum seekers are
A high profile student activist who has campaigned against “rape culture” has resigned from all political position and barred herself from National Union of Students (NUS) events and safe spaces because she is “unsafe.” She said she had “failed to
After months of waiting, the British government has finally revealed its main demands in its attempt to renegotiate the country’s European Union (EU) membership, and eurosceptics are unlikely to be happy. The Sunday Telegraph states that the government has four
The Conservative Party has now almost completely morphed into New Labour, Mail on Sunday colunmist Peter Hitchens has said. Although most of the media commentariat heaped praise on the Prime Minister’s conference speech this week, Hitchens akses whether it was
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden edged closer to a fresh national election on Friday after a budget deal with opposition parties that had made it possible for Prime Minister Stefan Lofven’s centre-left coalition to rule as a minority government collapsed. A
(AP) – Police have been told they are not allowed to wear a Union flag badge on their uniforms in tribute to colleagues killed on duty because it breaches regulations, it is reported. Officers in the Metropolitan Police were emailed
French authorities want new European Union (EU) rules mandating all travelling EU nationals to scan their fingerprints and maybe even their faces. The introduction of Smart Borders, a digital dragnet system using biometric scans to identify visiting non-EU nationals, was discussed at an EU interior ministers
The number of illegal entry attempts to the UK between January and June has doubled since the same period last year and is over four times higher than in 2013. In the first six months of 2014 there were 12,980 stopped illegal
Baron Rose of Monewden, the former Chief Executive Officer of Marks and Spencer, is due to lead the establishment campaign to remain inside the European Union, reports the Times. Lord Stuart Rose, a former administrative assistant at the BBC who
Jamal Udeen Al-Harith, a former Guantanamo inmate from Manchester, has allegedly being able to leave Britain and join Islamic State (IS) in Syria without security services stopping him. The former Guantanamo inmate is believed to have left for Syria over a year ago, reports the
