Pastor Terry Jones to go ahead with Qur'an burning day despite Hillary Clinton saying plan is disrespectful and disgraceful
The gun-toting pastor at the centre of international outrage over his plans to stage a Qur'an burning day to mark the September 11 attacks says he is determined to go ahead in the face of fierce condemnation from the Obama administration.
The Rev Terry Jones said more than 100 death threats would not put him off Saturday's...

Report likely to show BP workers misread crucial pressure readings hours before explosion, but will accuse rig owners Transocean over integrity of blowout preventer
BP is expected to admit today that it was partly to blame for the...

Richard Daley's decision not to run for re-election as Chicago mayor opens up possibility of graceful exit for Rahm Emanuel
For more than 20 years Richard Daley has served as mayor of Chicago – and his announcement that he is stepping down next year

This is the man who was described by the former business secretary Peter Mandelson as the 'unacceptable face of banking'
Even without a once-in-a-lifetime banking crisis, Bob Diamond would still have been a rum choice to run Barclays. After all, this...

US college knocked off top spot for first time in seven years, while UK institutions 'struggle to compete on funding'
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Both of them have earned fistfuls of Nobel prizes, have educated enough statesmen to table a string...

The US army chief had racist sympathies – as did the library trustees he gave his Hitler war loot to
I welcome your report on the decision made by a private California library to donate its iconic Nazi materials to the United States' repository of official documents (

Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendent who stormed off a plane down its emergency slide, may avoid a jail sentence
Steven Slater, the US flight attendant with JetBlue who livened up the summer with his spectacular decision to quit by sliding down an...

In an event organised by the Taxpayers' Alliance and sponsored by US lobbyists, the group will also promote small government
Lobbyists behind the rightwing Tea Party group in the US will arrive in London today to spread their message of low taxes and small government at an event organised by the UK's controversial Taxpayers' Alliance.
The event, the largest of its kind in Europe, is heavily sponsored by US lobby groups that have backed the Tea Party...

Billionaire's biggest single grant to an American organisation will allow HRW to expand its reach into developing nations
The billionaire financier George Soros is giving $100 million (£65 million) to America's leading human rights organisation in a move that will enable the group to massively expand its operations around the world.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) will increase its staff of 300 by about a third on the back of the five-year Soros grant, using the new firepower...