Reports also suggest Shakil Afridi was jailed for links to Islamists, not for helping America

Paul Fussell, who died on 23 May aged 88, was an acclaimed literary scholar who won a National Book Award in 1976 for The Great War and Modern Memory. Over a 50-year career he wrote memoir, literary criticism and social commentary. He made his greatest mark writing about war, a subject he knew well, and his disdain for its romanticisation.

Mitt Romney has clinched the Republican presidential nomination with a win in the Texas primary.

A US drone strike aiming for an al-Qa'ida leader has killed five militants as part of a Yemeni offensive against the Islamist group, Yemeni officials said today.

US thriller Revenge starts tonight. It's a return to the Eighties, says Sarah Hughes

Tube passengers endured further travel misery today, with severe delays on three Underground lines.

US thriller Revenge starts tonight. It's a return to the Eighties, says Sarah Hughes

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Out of America: The growing pressure on space could force Washington to end its ban on tower blocks

A penetrating analysis of social organisation argues that the West's 'inclusive' states show signs of a relapse.

Enjoy the benefits of locally grown herbs in Jamaica ... strictly above board – in the bath, in fact.

Teams of volunteers were heading to an uninhabited island in Prince William Sound near Anchorage yesterday to clean up debris washed out to sea by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami last year and sent by Pacific currents to Alaska.

The child abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church in the United States turned a new page this week as Monsignor William Lynn, of the Philadelphia Archdiocese, below, testified at his trial on charges of child endangerment and conspiracy.