A police officer has died on a skiing holiday with colleagues in France.

Lindsay Sandiford, 56, had expected jail term for cocaine offence

Cameron will make the speech in central London ahead of Prime Minister’s Question Time

Five-in-a-bed, 'nookie rooms' and midnight runs round medieval quads wearing little more than baby oil; the exploits of the country's current political elite in their undergraduate days at Oxford read more than a little bit like Brideshead Revisited. So it will come as no small embarrassment to them that it has all indeed been revisited.

Senior cabinet ministers have come out against plans to close hospital wards in their constituencies, in an apparent challenge to Department of Health plans to rationalise the NHS.

David Cameron will this week finally deliver his long-delayed speech promising a referendum on Britain’s relationship with the European Union.

The first British hostages to speak of their ordeal in the al-Qa’ida desert siege today expressed relief at their rescue and warmly praised the Algerian army. One unnamed hostage who appeared on Algerian state television said, extraordinarily: “It was a very exciting episode. I enjoyed it.”

Forget the Europe bashing, Cameron has new weapon for trade charm offensive

David Cameron chaired an emergency meeting today on the Algerian hostage crisis which Downing Street described as a “very serious and dangerous situation”.

A British man has been shot dead in Central America by a gang who stole his camera, it was reported.

Picture-postcard-perfect beaches and dramatic mountain scenery blessed by a Caribbean sun; three million welcoming citizens, keen to share their entrancing heritage; and a murder rate to make the world shudder – these are the conflicting faces of Jamaica.

Imani Green, eight, who had sickle cell anaemia, was on the island to benefit from warmer climate when she was shot dead on Friday night

1. John Cage.

The Government has failed to honour promises to free the last British detainee in Guantanamo, former inmates of the camp said today.