A group of islanders “callously and shamefully” evicted from their homeland by Britain received a bitter blow yesterday in their marathon legal battle for the right to return when judges in Strasbourg rejected their case.

After making its first aerial incursion into Japanese-controlled airspace near disputed islands, China compounded tensions with Japan by bolstering its territorial claims at the United Nations.

David Cameron has acknowledged for the first time that Britain could decide to leave the European Union, by saying that an exit is “imaginable.”

Cameron said Britain was leading the way among international efforts as the second-largest donor to humanitarian aid.

Cameron is tipped to make a much-delayed keynote speech on Europe early next year

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David Cameron will urge European Union leaders to agree to arm the rebels trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

The chief American delegate at a UN conference weighing possible Internet rules says the US may snub the final document over proposals interpreted as giving governments greater oversight over the Web.

Pro-European Conservatives launch fightback against Eurosceptics

Council of Europe ministers has warned the UK that defying a Strasbourg judgement to give some prisoners voting rights would breach its human rights commitments and its international legal obligation.

Mali's prime minister has presented his resignation on state television, hours after soldiers who led a recent coup arrested him at his home in Bamako.

PM is defying a Strasbourg court ruling that the UK's blanket ban on all prisoners voting while in jail is a breach of human rights.

It has taken a pornography to propel Vice into its position as one of the world's most influential youth-oriented media brands. Last year it bought the smut portal vice.com from a pornographer and turned it into the new home for its distinctive mix of snarky fashion comment and current affairs video. "A lot of horny dudes have been coming to vice.com and getting long-form documentary, which probably wasn't what they were after," observes Vice Media's Tyneside-born president, Andrew Creighton, on a visit to London from his New York base.