The cost of policing the Ecuadorean embassy in Knightsbridge while the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange takes refuge inside has now risen to £3.3million, Scotland Yard has disclosed.     ...

Cyclists are to embark on a protest ride to the Scottish Parliament, calling for 5% of Scotland's transport budget to be spent on cycling. ...

Serco was hauled before a senior judge last week to apologise for ‘embarrassing’ hold-ups in bringing defendants up from the cells that have totalled ten hours. ...

This week's round-up features Chelsea's triumph in the Europa League, Dion Dublin and blood on the ice rinkThanks for all your suggestions on last week's blog. Here are a few highlights from this week.John Terry: a celebration too far?Is th ...

Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson, from Doncaster, lost both legs and suffered more than 40 injuries in a Taliban bomb attack in 2006. ...

Conservative Party chiefs were today under intense pressure to identify the senior Tory who described party activists as "swivel-eyed loons" in a major embarrassment for David Cameron.     ...

Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson, from Doncaster, lost both legs and suffered more than 40 injuries in a Taliban bomb attack in 2006. ...

Top public schools have put it in their curricula and David Cameron has even set out to measure it, now churches are embarking on a drive to teach "happiness" to the nation.     ...

A couple of weeks ago I tested Roomba from iRobot, a gadget that vacuums while you're out. ...

Denise Petty, from Walsall, in the West Midlands, was so embarrassed by the incident she resolved to take action. ...

MUMBAI/BANGALORE (Reuters) - A breach of security at two payment card processing companies in India that led to heists at cash machines around the world has reopened questions on the risks of outsourcing sensitive financial services to the ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Caterpillar Inc's deal to cut the purchase price of a Chinese mining-equipment maker it bought last year ends an embarrassing episode that overshadowed the company's effort to expand in China and distracted its executive ...

The NBA has nixed relocation and new owners are on the way, but the financially embattled franchise still needs a new homeFor the Sacramento mayor and one-time NBA player Kevin Johnson, the NBA board of governors' decision on Thursday to de ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Google Inc's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is due to meet British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday as a participant of an advisory group just days after MPs lambasted the Internet company's tax affairs. ...

Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson, who is thought to have survived the worst ever battlefield injuries in Afghanistan, shows off his MBE after receiving the award from Prince Charles.     ...

Patrick Barkham heads to the north-east of England to visit the Farne Islands, where the National Trust is embarking on an epic census of the puffin populationNoah Payne-FrankSimon RawlesPatrick BarkhamMustafa Khalili     ...

Demetri Marchessini aired controversial thoughts after publishing his book Women in Trousers: a Rear ViewNigel Farage is facing fresh embarrassment over a Ukip supporter after it emerged that one of the party's most generous donors believes ...

Demetri Marchessini aired controversial thoughts after publishing his book Women in Trousers: a Rear ViewNigel Farage is facing fresh embarrassment over a Ukip supporter after it emerged that one of the party's most generous donors believes ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Google Inc's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is due to meet British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday as a participant of an advisory group just days after MPs lambasted the Internet company's tax affairs. ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian forces used jets and attack helicopters to bombard Islamist camps in the northeast on Friday, killing a number of insurgents, the defence headquarters spokesman said. ...

Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt is allowed to take a mattress, pillow, fan, and toiletries as he goes to jail over firearms offences linked to deadly blasts in Mumbai in 1993. ...

Rangers aim to discover whether numbers have plummeted after a year of extreme weather in which 3,500 birds washed up deadNipped fingers and handfuls of guano will be the order of the day for wildlife rangers on the Farne Islands as they em ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Actor Sanjay Dutt, one of Bollywood's biggest stars, has returned to prison to serve the remainder of a five-year sentence for firearms offences during the Mumbai bombings 20 years ago, forcing at least one film onto the ...

MUMBAI/KOLKATA (Reuters) - Dalia Ghosh, a 28-year-old nurse in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, invested her savings in an unlicensed fund run by media conglomerate Saradha Group last year, hoping to start her own clothes business. ...

The embattled French president has pledged

An outstanding player and the perfect ambassador, David Beckham's record eloquently answers the critics, says chief football writer Phil McNulty ...

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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will embark on their brief United States tour at the end of the month without any of the big names from Champions League finalists Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, coach Joachim Loew said on Thursday ...

The problem is quite simple. When you try and work out whether to build a train set of not (or indeed, embark on any other project) you do what is called a cost benefit analysis...     ...

As he embarks on a new tour, hellraising drummer Ginger Baker talks to Ivan Hewett.     ...

Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt returns to jail to serve his sentence for firearms offences linked to deadly blasts in Mumbai in 1993. ...

The former head of Revenue and Customs (HMRC) took into account potential embarrassment to George Osborne when letting off Goldman Sachs from paying up to £20m in interest payments, a judge has concluded....   read more ...

Silencing a crowing cockerel and translating a tattoo are among the bizarre requests for help received by Foreign Office consular staff around the world last year. ...

Figures showed the single currency’s second largest economy shrank by 0.2 per cent in the first three months of the year. ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After decades of using one-size-fits-all therapies to combat cancer, doctors are using new tools to help decide when their patients can skip chemotherapy or other harsh treatments. ...

David Cameron endures Commons embarrassment as Tories criticise him over a referendum on UK membership of the European Union.     ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine football great Diego Maradona insulted reporters and kicked a photographer after arriving home in Buenos Aires on a visit from Dubai, where he works as a sports ambassador. ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked cell detained in Egypt was planning suicide attacks on the French and U.S. embassies, the state news agency MENA reported, quoting investigators. ...

The new Cineworld Cinema in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, will be torn down and rebuilt after an embarrassing design error left it too close to existing houses. ...

Nigeria declares a "massive" campaign to combat militants in the country's border territories, amid a flourishing Islamist insurgency. ...

Tremendous applause must be given to David for almost managing to control the myoclonic jerk of the diaphragm, and by god, it must've been embarrassing and irritating all at the same time...     ...

Jockey Frankie Dettori is "ashamed and embarrassed" after admitting for the first time he tested positive for cocaine in 2012. ...

David Cameron could escape a major Commons embarrassment as some Tories back away from criticising him over a referendum on UK membership of the European Union.     ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Mervyn King, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England, heaped criticism on a planned tax on financial transactions in Europe, saying it was unlikely to help the region's embattled economy. ...

The detention of the alleged CIA agent is the first case of a US diplomat publicly accused of spying in Russia for about a decade. ...

There are many disingenuous cricketers out there, but when Matt Prior spoke of his embarrassment at being named England's player of the year, he was being sincereMATT PRIOR, THE GREATEST 'KEEPER IN ENGLAND'S HISTORY?Flann O'Brien, rare geni ...

Antony Breeze, 36, from Horwich, near Bolton, Greater Manchester, set himself on fire before telling a horrified witness: 'I've had enough.' ...