Six out of the top 20 most popular iPad finance apps have no privacy policy, meaning your valuable personal data could be at risk.

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France's new president Francois Hollande is shrinking his presidential security team and naming a woman to lead it for the first time.

Travel agencies predict around 2 million people will be travelling abroad, with around four million on the move in the UK

My heart goes out to republican-minded malcontents at this time. It must be dismal seeing the bunting go up in your street and have the papers gushing about how you should bake an Elizabeth sponge, when you regard the monarchy as a travesty that was outdated in feudal times. The great thing about being the citizen of an actual republic, yet resident in a kingdom with functioning royalty, is that you can marvel at the pomp and ceremony, completely free of inner conflict. You can – as I, an Irishwoman, did on Tuesday – hail a taxi and say "take me to Buckingham Palace" , without compromising your democratic values. Some of my English colleagues were full of contempt.

Many families will not allow daughters to attend school if the teacher is male

The 33-year-old who died at the sceneis the 35th Tibetan to immolate since March last year

The Oscar-winning actor Sir Sean Connery has been told by police that they believe he was a "repeated victim" of phone hacking.

Two American tourists have been kidnapped while travelling in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

Police charge ex-NOTW editor over claims relating to Scottish Socialist's own perjury case

Rupert Murdoch’s media empire made “veiled threats” to attack the Liberal Democrats in its UK newspapers if its controversial £8 billion takeover of BSkyB was blocked, the Business Secretary Vince Cable claimed today.

Poland have guaranteed the safety of fans at Euro 2012 and criticised Sol Campbell for telling supporters not to travel to the tournament.

More than a third of a million pounds has been deducted from prisoners' pay packets to fund services for victims in the first six months of a new Government scheme, it was announced today.

A top Israeli minister has fed speculation that the Jewish state could be responsible for a powerful new virus said to have been used in an attack on computers across the Middle East.