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Welcome plans to expand Freedom of Information (FoI) laws to private companies that operate local monopolies have stopped short of including the statutory corporation Network Rail Ltd, leaving it free to continue evading public scrutiny.  The company, which maintains almost

Robin Williams dreaded getting back into his Mrs. Doubtfire costume, but not for the obvious comfort reasons. The actor, who took his life Monday at the age of 63, had signed on for a belated sequel to his 1993 smash.

The Hammurabi Human Rights Organization, which monitors human rights in Iraq, released a report on the conditions of the people stranded in northern Iraq. Christians, Yazidis, and Muslims fled to the mountains after the Islamic State captured their towns. These

From the smallest rural towns to national capitals, Ebola has affected nearly every corner of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. With the death toll near 1,000, health workers warn current statistics are low, as hostile residents flee medical professionals and

She was known as the ‘Hackney Heroine’ – a brave, black woman who confronted looters in her neighbourhood during the London Riots of 2011. But now Pauline Pearce may be known as the London Loony after a Telegraph comment piece

Google is facing criticism after a series of violent games based on the conflict in Gaza appeared in its Play app store. Games such as ‘Bomb Gaza’, ‘Gaza Assault: Code Red’ and ‘Whack the Hamas’ are available to download onto

Christopher Booker has been at the top of British journalism since the 1960s, and this weekend he has given another demonstration why. Booker’s weekly column in the Sunday Telegraph, the most-read column in the paper, was pulled at 6 pm

I’ve spoken to a fair share of actors from outside the U.S. who applaud their country’s governments for footing part of the bill for their films. The British Film Institute, which wrote checks for the Oscar-winning film The King’s Speech

L’Oreal signed 17-year-old Alex Despiegelaere after seeing photos of her cheering for Belgium during the World Cup.  They ended the contract with her after she posted a photo of herself with “what appears to be a dead gazelle she shot

The US Embassy in Moscow demanded Russia immediately release Ukrainian helicopter pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, who is detained on suspicion of killing two Russian journalists. She was arrested in June and the Voronezh Regional Court said she will remain in pretrial

European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has said that Britain will be able to claw back certain powers from Brussels ahead of an in-out referendum on the country’s continued EU membership, the Telegraph reports. British Prime Minister David Cameron failed last

Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond has been accused of personally pressuring the chairman of Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE), the body that represents the country’s financial services, to drop a report on independence. The Daily Telegraph says that Mr Salmond telephoned

Nothing is sacred for the pro-Russian forces in east Ukraine. A Russian Orthodox Church Abroad priest, who did not want to be named, said the rebels hide mortars behind the Orthodox churches. “Gunmen in Slovyansk hide mortars behind orthodox churches and

Newspapers warned Saturday the country had edged closer to leaving the EU after Prime Minister David Cameron’s “crushing” failure to block Jean-Claude Juncker becoming president of the European Commission. But they were divided on whether it was Cameron or Brussels

In a controversy reminiscent of American baseball’s Black Sox Scandal, an investigation raises accusations that the Ghana Football Association has engaged in an international conspiracy to fix games in cooperation with a ring of corrupted game officials. A six-month-long undercover

A portion of the Houses of Parliament, also known as the Palace of Westminster, was evacuated moments ago following an alert over a suspect device. The evacuation, which the Telegraph reports was “in the shadow of Big Ben” consisted of

The pro-Russians in eastern Ukraine declared allegiance to the Russian Orthodox Church, and other religions in the area have fallen under suspicion. Father Sergei Kosyak with the Gospel Church told The Telegraph the story of his confrontation with pro-Russians on

Bloodbath at the Telegraph, formerly house journal of the Tory voting shires. Victims of the latest carnage include its former deputy editor Ben Brogan, its blogs editor Damian Thompson and two of its star feature writers Jenny McCartney and Cole

Ben Brogan, the Deputy Editor of the Telegraph who is rumoured to have been sacked in today’s mass clear out at the paper, has cancelled a lunchtime speaking engagement. Brogan was due to chair a session at the Margaret Thatcher Conference on

Wednesday 18th June 2014 will be burned into the brains of the Daily Telegraph’s journalists and management for some time. Today it is being reported that both Blogs Editor Damian Thompson and Deputy Editor Benedict Brogan have parted ways with

The Telegraph put together a video primer of how ISIS stole a fortune. The video details how ISIS has smuggling, extortion and murdered its way to a treasure chest reportedly worth over $1.4 billion. Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN

OK, here’s a tough one. Which of these, would you say, is the superior culture? Culture A Produced Purcell, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Leonardo Da Vinci, Vermeer, Shakespeare, Goethe, Moliere, Jane Austen, Newton, Wren, Darwin, Einstein, Watson & Crick, Magna Carta,

Brazil said the stadiums for the 2014 World Cup would be finished, but pictures show Manaus’s Amazonia Arena incomplete and its field in very poor condition. England plays Italy at the arena on Saturday. The arena cost over $290 million

FIFA President Sepp Blatter called critics of FIFA awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar racists. “There is a sort of storm against FIFA relating to the Qatar World Cup,” he complained. “Sadly there’s a great deal of discrimination and

The Telegraph’s Andrew Gilligan has today written about the Guardian newspaper’s inability to report the Islamist ‘Trojan Horse’ plot correctly: There’s a lot of bad journalism about Muslims in this country, but not all of it is at the tabloid

As the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 continues, it has already become “the most expensive” in aviation history, and “experts [predict] costs could reach hundreds of millions of pounds.” According to The Telegraph, this cost estimate comes after Australian

In Donetsk, the pro-Russian Vostok Battalion surrounded the headquarters of the Donetsk People’s Republic and forced everyone out. The battalion insists it is not a coup, but a police operation. Christopher Miller, editor of The Kyiv Post and contributor to

A leading Muslim charity is under investigation amidst allegations that it promoted intolerance towards the Jewish community and called for adulterers and gay people to be stoned to death, according to the Telegraph. The Charity Commission is said to have

Thomas Piketty – house economist of the Occupy movement – has been rumbled. Ever since the publication earlier this year of his doorstopper treatise Capital in the Twenty-First Century – the French economist has been adulated as the poster boy

“Imagine going to work every day and at the start of your day, with your first cup of coffee, you sit down to glance at beheadings, children in the process of being raped, human bodies in various stages of decomposition,

CANNES, France (AP) — Ryan Gosling debuted as a film director at the Cannes Film Festival with a stylish, theatrical fable that critics quickly slammed. The first screening of Gosling’s “Lost River” played Tuesday for one of the festival’s most

The ongoing boycott of Dorchester hotels, including Hollywood’s own Beverly Hills Hotel, is meeting some opposition in the form of the Stonewall charity, a LGBT rights advocate. The organization is not only refusing to join the boycott, it has knocked

Businessman David Perdue continues to lead the polls for the Georgia Senate race, but a recent blooper on taxes may shake up the race as the candidates prepare for Tuesday’s election. Perdue gave his opponents a golden opportunity after he

Police in Mexico recently discovered a large drug cartel training camp in the west part of the country, according to a report by the Latin American Tribune. The Caballeros Templarios cartel allegedly used the grounds, sometimes referred to as a “narcocamp,” to

Two £3.5 million wind turbines that were installed half a year ago have still not been switched on following concerns they could interfere with the radar system at the nearby airport, the Telegraph reports. The blades on the 430 foot