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Former archbishop Lord Carey attacks David Cameron for 'aggressive secularism' in the Government's approach to same-sex marriage
30 March 2013 12:02 AM
A former Archbishop of Canterbury has accused the Prime Minister of doing more than any other recent political leader to make Christians feel a “persecuted minority”.
British aid worker sisters 'raped and kidnapped' crossing Libya
29 March 2013 02:07 PM
Investigations have begun into how British aid workers were kidnapped and assaulted as they travelled through Benghazi in eastern Libya.
Sex change teacher found dead
21 March 2013 09:05 PM
A primary school teacher in the early stages of a sex change has been found dead just weeks after it was announced he would be starting the spring term as a woman.
Jim Davidson arrested over new sexual offence claims
21 March 2013 12:00 AM
The comedian Jim Davidson was arrested again yesterday following new allegations of sex offences.
Smell a rat? Rodent blamed for meltdown scare at Fukushima
21 March 2013 12:00 AM
A power cut that prompted renewed fears of a meltdown at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has been blamed on a hungry rat.
Drones will be used to boost security at G8 summit
16 March 2013 12:00 AM
Each police helicopter costs about £7m to buy. By contrast, the drones cost around £1m
Officers probe 600 new phone hacking claims
16 March 2013 12:00 AM
Hundreds of fresh claims of phone hacking at News International’s now defunct News of The World are being investigated by police.
Falkland Islands: David Cameron rebukes
Pope Francis with 'white smoke' jibe
15 March 2013 09:46 PM
David Cameron has publicly rebuked the new Pope for backing Argentina’s territorial claim to the Falklands.
Cannibal Cop trial: British police dig up garden of Canterbury nurse arrested in hunt for UK 'mentor' of former policeman who 'planned to kill, cook and eat over 100 women'
01 March 2013 06:46 PM
Police have dug up the garden of a male nurse in Kent who is allegedly linked to a New York policeman suspected of plotting to torture, kill and eat women, it emerged today.
£100m 'man from Del Monte' divorce battle ends in £15m settlement
22 February 2013 08:13 PM
The estranged couple at the heart of what was billed Britain’s most expensive divorce battle have settled their differences with a £15m lump sum.
- 1 Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
- 2 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
- 3 Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
- 4 Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
- 5 Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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