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Cowen seeks to dissolve parliament
Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen is to seek the dissolution of the Dail parliament as voters await formal confirmation of the general election date. The Taoiseach, who remains in charge of the country...
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Trust apologises over patient death
A hospital trust has apologised to a family after a "nil by mouth" patient developed pneumonia and died after he was given sponge pudding and custard. Mark Ullyatt died after nursing staff at the...
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Teenager sentenced over punch death
A teenage woman who killed a father-of-two who was "in the wrong place at the wrong time" with a single punch has been locked up for more than six years. Kayleigh Murray hit Paul Woods in a...
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Egypt reshuffle disappoints No 10
Egypt needs a "broad-based, representative government" including members of the opposition to President Hosni Mubarak, Downing Street has said. Monday's cabinet appointments, which reshuffled familiar...
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Social work review targets red tape
The head of an independent review into child protection in England has called for an end to a tick-box culture, saying paperwork was at risk of replacing proper social care. Professor Eileen Munro...
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House prices dip by 0.1% in January
The housing market has started the year on the back foot with prices edging 0.1% lower during January, new figures have shown. It was the fifth time in seven months that property values had fallen,...
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Users crash new crimes map website
The Government's new crime-mapping website has attracted 300,000 hits a minute, leaving millions frustrated as the site crashed within hours of being launched. Up to 18 million hits an hour froze the...
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BP 'looks to future' after losses
BP's new chief executive has shifted focus at the oil giant to the "future rather than the legacy of the past" as the company revealed the Gulf of Mexico oil spill saw it sink to its first loss in...
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Ofcom to review site block powers
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has asked media regulator Ofcom to review the practicalities of a planned clampdown on illegal file-sharing on the internet. Powers to allow courts to block access to...
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Drug firm to close research plant
US drug manufacturer Pfizer has announced plans to close its major UK research centre in a move affecting up to 2,400 jobs. The pharmaceutical giant said redundancies at the site at Sandwich, Kent,...
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Imam guilty of raping boy at mosque
A Muslim cleric has been convicted of raping a young boy as he attended Islamic education lessons at his mosque. Mohammed Hanif Khan, 42, was also found guilty by a jury at Nottingham Crown Court of...
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Tory 'free vote' on prisoner polls
Conservative MPs look set to be given a free vote on a Commons motion opposing votes for prisoners. The motion, tabled by Tory former shadow home secretary David Davis and Labour's former Justice...
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Crackdown 'will help UK graduates'
Students coming to the UK from outside the EU to study should be stopped from seamlessly moving into work in order to give British graduates the best chance of finding a job, Immigration minister...
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Hague in call over Egypt government
Egypt needs to have "broad-based government" that will allow an "orderly transition" in the country, William Hague has told MPs. The Foreign Secretary said he would be speaking to the country's...
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BA worker 'conspired to bomb plane'
An Islamic extremist who landed a job as a British Airways computer expert conspired with a radical preacher to blow up a plane bound for America, a court heard. In secret email exchanges with radical...
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Plane for stranded Britons in Egypt
The Foreign Office is to charter its own flight to ensure Britons are not left stranded in crisis-stricken Egypt. The move came as Cairo saw its largest protest yet as hundreds of thousands of...
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Egypt's president vows to step down
The Egyptian president has announced he will step down later this year and promised to work towards a peaceful transition. Amid intense domestic and international pressure to relinquish power, Hosni...
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TUC plans huge anti-cuts protest
A demonstration against the Government's spending cuts is set to be the biggest union event in decades, the TUC has predicted. The union organisation has started distributing thousands of leaflets...
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Documents reveal more 9/11 suspects
A gang of previously unknown men are wanted by the FBI for their alleged role in the September 11 terror attacks. Secret documents obtained by the WikiLeaks website detailing the movements of the...
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Plea over WikiLeaks jail 'Briton'
The Government has been urged to intervene in the case of a soldier held in a US jail on suspicion of passing state secrets to WikiLeaks - on the grounds that he is part-British. Bradley Manning, a...
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