Fuel protests triggered by rising oil prices have spread to more countries across Europe, with thousands of fishermen on strike.

More than 100 nations have reached an agreement on a treaty which would ban current designs of cluster bombs.

Russia's prosecutor-general has admitted that thousands of people are wrongly charged with criminal offences in the country each year.

David Cameron, leader of the UK Conservatives, has been credited with "greening" the party. Yet, argues David Nussbaum in this week's Green Room, as the Tories begin changing the British political landscape, Mr Cameron appears to have gone quiet on...

UK Chancellor Alistair Darling believes the Scottish Government's plans for a local income tax would damage the financial services industry.

Work costingÃ,£4m is being carried out on roads and footpaths in a town where two new neighbourhoods are being built. It is part of a £90m investment scheme into services and facilities in Horley, Surrey, where about 2,600 homes are to be constructed.

A man described as one of Robert McCartney's best friends, who was with him on the day he was killed, has been giving evidence at his murder trial.

The parents of murdered English student Joanna Parrish said they would continue their "quest for justice" after the man suspected of her killing was jailed.