The latest string to former MP Louise Mensch's bow is a fashion website

A Saudi prince has failed to persuade a High Court judge to hear allegations that he was "guilty of wrongdoing" behind closed doors.

For an hour on Tuesday evening, Barack Obama set out the policies against which the success of his second term as President will be chalked up. Gun control, climate change, equal pay for women and an end to the war in Afghanistan all featured in the State of the Union address, which also put front and centre a pledge to reignite the economy. Reaction this morning is largely favourable, if a touch mild.

One of Scotland Yard’s most senior officers has been called by MPs to answer claims that the identities of dead children were used by undercover teams.

Police forces should be made to positively discriminate in order to recruit more black and ethnic minority officers, a chief constable has said.

Frank Keating, who has died at the age of 75, was a giant of sports journalism, although as a columnist and feature writer whose work habitually brought out the humanity and humour in a subject, he would have chortled self-mockingly at such a grandiose epitaph.

John Napper's portrait was criticised for being a poor likeness of the young Elizabeth

He sounds like something out of a PG Wodehouse novel.

If we want acceptance, we must sit on the sidelines and cheer for the "real women's issues".  Except we do that already

The scale and longevity of Savile’s crimes yesterday became a matter of public record. Jonathan Brown tells his shocking life story

Croft returned from a neck break last Friday

Fifa president says AC Milan forward was wrong to walk off

David Cameron and Nick Clegg have written to the mother of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence seeking to reassure her of the coalition's commitment to equality.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has paid millions of pounds in compensation to Iraqis who claimed to have been illegally detained and tortured by British forces during the Iraq War, it has been revealed.