AFP – A suicide bomber killed at least nine people and wounded 29 on Sunday in an attack targeting anti-Qaeda militiamen in the Al-Balassim area, west of Baghdad, the defence and interior ministries said.

AFP – The European Union’s top diplomat Catherine Ashton visited Gaza on Sunday to press for the further lifting of Israel’s blockade on the Hamas-ruled territory.

He is one of the last of the Cold Warriors. Victor Makarov was spying for Britain in Russia long before the two agents Sergei Skripal and Igor Sutyagin, who were handed over in Vienna this month in the latest spy swap.

The Taser controversy

Hundreds of millions of pounds in unclaimed savings will be used to fund voluntary work and charity projects through a “Big Society Bank” scheme to be outlined by David Cameron tomorrow.

“This may seem an odd admission from someone who once embodied New Labour’s reputation for spin and control freakery,” Lord Mandelson says in the first paragraph of the introduction to his “frank, honest and revealing” memoirs, “but almost everything …

British troops are to pull out of Afghanistan by 2014, under a secret blueprint for drawing down coalition forces that is set to begin in a matter or months, it emerged last night. A leaked communiqué – a copy of which has been seen by The Independ…

British troops are to pull out of Afghanistan by 2014, under a secret blueprint for drawing down coalition forces that is set to begin in a matter or months, it emerged last night. A leaked communiqué – a copy of which has been seen by The Independ…

A row has broken out after the General Medical Council recruited a woman convicted of conspiracy to abduct a child on to an expert group charged with producing child protection guidance for doctors.

‘It seems to be a very self-centred and rather spiteful piece of work. I hope we don’t see him in the House of Lords again.’