Activists warn against creating a 'rich man’s club'

Lord Malloch-Brown, a former Labour minister, was left humiliated last night after he and the PR company he works for agreed to make an out-of-court settlement to the controversial Israeli mining billionaire Beny Steinmetz over sensational allegations of a smear campaign.

Doing good as a teenager used to mean mowing granny’s lawn or teaching English badly in a randomly selected  developing country. Then came the me-me millennials whose circuit-board brains helped propel them to overnight riches. Next up: a new generation that combines good intentions, Facebook entrepreneurialism and a desire to save humanity and/or the planet.

There are options for Syria, but none of them is attractive nor likely to be conclusive.

Kofi Annan said today he will step down from his high-profile role as special envoy for Syria at the end of the month, delivering blistering criticism of world powers' failure to unite over the country's escalating violence.

Chilling evidence of Syria's worst atrocity as bodies are packed into mass graves

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said time is running out on Syrian peace hopes and warned that the Syrian state could collapse.

International powers agreed yesterday that a transitional government should be set up in Syria to end the bloodshed there, but they left open the question of what part President Bashar al-Assad might play in the process.

Major powers meeting in Geneva have adopted a watered down version of special envoy Kofi Annan's Syria plan that leaves open whether President Bashar Assad can be part of the transition government.

The bloodshed continues, and hopes for UN peace plan fade as Syria bars Western ambassadors

Europe and US ratchet up diplomatic pressure on Assad's pariah state

A Foreign Office minister called for the international community to unite to take further action against Syria following the “revolting” massacre at Houla.

Emergency meeting of UN discusses response to attack that killed 34 children