Police have charged a man with the murder of an 84-year-old woman discovered dead in her home and the attempted murder of a nine year-old boy found stabbed in a skate park.

Former chairman and chief executive of HSBC Lord Green to stand down

Putin appeared to offer some hope that Russian support for the Assad regime might not be open ended

Comments come after Labour said it would not seek reverse coalition's child benefit cuts

George Galloway and Dennis Skinner object to plans to delay start of Commons, which would cause the cancellation of Prime Minister's Questions

Ed Miliband tonight hit back at criticism of Labour's direction under him from Tony Blair and his allies, accusing them of being out of date and out of touch with the public.

Respect MP also plans to disrupt plans to cancel PMQ's to allow MPs and peers to attend service

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has suggested it would be “a bit odd” to go ahead with Prime Minister's Questions on the day of Baroness Thatcher's funeral.

David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg are expected to meet again to discuss the Leveson press reforms after “good” talks today.

More funding for training and surveys of friends and family will help improve nursing standards this year, the Prime Minister said today.

Around 3,800 British troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan during 2013, David Cameron announced today.

In the realm of unwitting but illuminating self-analysis, there has been little like it since Gerald Ratner. If David Cameron's crack at undermining market confidence in his brand (himself) was wordier and less honest than Ratner's "crap", his choice of this week to launch a bid to wheedle out of pre-election live debates in 2015 still made a handsome Christmas gift to market rival Ed Miliband. When the Prime Minister informed a parliamentary press lunch of his doubts about participating in any debates, or making them irrelevant by holding them months before the vote, he exposed more of himself than I suspect he realised.

Eurosceptics defy whips and join Labour to defeat Cameron and demand cut in Brussels spending

David Cameron insisted today that the Government's energy policy has not changed, after a Tory minister attacked the way wind farms were being “peppered” across the countryside.