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Torture, terror and table tennis: Iraq hostage Peter Moore tells of ordeal

12th March 2010

The survivor of Britain’s longest hostage crisis in 20 years revealed yesterday how he endured months of torture during his ordeal in Iraq. Read more…

Doomsday man ‘raped five daughters to save bloodline'

12th March 2010

A “depraved” man said to believe that only he and his offspring would survive the end of the world is to go on trial charged with fathering six children with his own daughters. Read more…

Conservative deal could split Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg warned

12th March 2010

Nick Clegg is being warned that an attempt to strike a formal deal with a minority Tory government after the next election risks dividing the Liberal Democrats. Read more…

UK News

Duke of Edinburgh asks female sea cadet if she works at a strip club

11th March 2010

Prince Philip surprised sea cadet by asking if she worked at a strip club. Read more…

Liam Byrne: No new tax rises under Labour

11th March 2010

Labour has pledged to impose no new tax rises despite being warned that increases are the only way to cut record public debt. Read more…

Europe's banks brace for UK debt crisis

11th March 2010

UniCredit has alerted investors that Britain is at serious risk of a bond market and sterling debacle and faces deeper woes than Greece. Read more…

Political Blogs

World News

WITNESS - Battlefield dead haunt U.S. Marines and Afghans alike

12th March 2010

MARJAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Corporal Jacob Turbett gave out a single groan of pain before the Taliban bullet, which had pierced his heart, ended his life. Read more…

Billionaire Pinera takes power as quakes jolt Chile

11th March 2010

CONSTITUCION, Chile (Reuters) - The ground shook and buildings swayed as billionaire Sebastian Pinera took over as Chile's president on Thursday, tasked with rebuilding after a... Read more…

Two kidnapped European aid workers freed in Haiti

11th March 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Two European aid workers with Doctors Without Borders in quake-hit Haiti were kidnapped and held for nearly a week before being freed early on Thursday... Read more…

News Columnists

You could have knocked me down with a feather

11th March 2010

That's how I felt when I heard that the budget due in two weeks was not going to be a "big give-away". The news came from no less an authority than the chancellor... Read more…

Brown presents himself as a modern-day Churchill?

10th March 2010

The prime minister didn't promise "blood, sweat, tears" or "to fight them on the beaches" but try reading this quote from the prime minister's speech this... Read more…

'Non-dom' donor Lords

'Non-dom' donor Lords

9th March 2010

On the morning after the night before I find myself pondering why the Tories biggest donor is facing so much grief (you can see my interview with David Cameron about Lord Ashcroft... Read more…

Weird World

Elephant born after 'dying' in the womb

Elephant born after 'dying' in the womb

11th March 2010

A baby elephant that 'died' in the womb has been born healthy and alive.Related StoriesWeather man attacked by pelicanMali the elephant thanks her monkStiletto drag race dash in... Read more…

New record for world's largest house of cards

New record for world's largest house of cards

11th March 2010

Hotel replica made of playing cards enters record books.Related StoriesIs this the world's oldest paperboy?Panda cub explores new homeGiant panda sneaks into villageAmazing granny... Read more…

Politics

Iraq memorial re-dedicated

11th March 2010

A momument to 179 people who lost their lives in the Iraq war has been re-dedicated at a service in the East Midlands today. Read more…

Photographic exhibition tells story of people of the Congo

10th March 2010

Photographer Rankin held a private view at Number 10 of images from his recent visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Read more…

Protecting the Recovery

10th March 2010

The Government will continue to do "whatever it takes" to protect the recovery of the UK economy, the Prime Minister has said. Read more…