Hillary Clinton has decided to accept the post of Secretary of State, aides to the former First Lady said last night, ending a week-long drama that had threatened to throw Barack Obama’s White House transition off course.
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Jonathan Ross is to keep his job at the BBC after the corporation’s governing body ruled that senior Radio 2 executives were to blame for the broadcast of obscene telephone calls to the actor Andrew Sachs.
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Thirteen years after a young model's body was found at the bottom of a 180 foot cliff in Sydney, her British boyfriend has been convicted of her murder.
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Thirteen years after a young model's body was found at the bottom of a 180 foot cliff in Sydney, her British boyfriend has been convicted of her murder.
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A 19-year-old man in Florida committed suicide live on the internet as hundreds of web surfers watched - taunting him and offering encouragement.
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A 19-year-old man in Florida committed suicide live on the internet as hundreds of web surfers watched - taunting him and offering encouragement.
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An American client of UBS has gone to court to challenge Switzerland's controversial plan to divulge details of once-secret bank accounts to US investigators.
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This weekend is a time for thick pullovers and woolly hats as a taste of winter spreads over much of Britain. Raw winds sweeping down from far inside the Arctic Circle, even from the North Pole, will send a collective shiver through the country today, with heavy snowfalls in Scotland and parts of East Anglia.
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The Pope is to be asked to consider four top English bishops as successor to the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor.
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Supporters of Hojatoleslam Moqtada al-Sadr, the anti-American cleric, burnt an effigy of George Bush in Baghdad yesterday and gave warning of a return to armed resistance if parliament approves a deal that will allow US forces to remain in Iraq for three more years.
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Bank of Ireland has received unsolicited bid approaches from unnamed groups, it confirmed yesterday, as its shares soared by 30 per cent amid rumours that the Irish Government plans to consolidate the banking sector.
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Graphic: First signs of crowd trouble?
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Ricky Hatton says that he is in the closing stretch of his career, but there may be a few twists and turns ahead yet. In the early hours of tomorrow he faces Paulie Malignaggi at the MGM Grand Garden Arena here in another defining night in a career chock full of highlights. But Hatton is not ready to hang up his gloves, he is ready for a new beginning.
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Ricky Hatton says that he is in the closing stretch of his career, but there may be a few twists and turns ahead yet. In the early hours of tomorrow he faces Paulie Malignaggi at the MGM Grand Garden Arena here in another defining night in a career chock full of highlights. But Hatton is not ready to hang up his gloves, he is ready for a new beginning.
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The fight for leadership of the French Socialist party came down last night to a run-off between two female foes: Ségolène Royal, the glamorous former presidential candidate, and Martine Aubry, the stern-mannered Mayor of Lille.
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Conservationists embarked yesterday on a campaign to get landowners to support the reintroduction of sea eagles to England after an absence of almost two centuries.
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Wal-Mart, which announced booming profits only two days ago, surprised the markets yesterday by announcing that its chief executive is to be replaced.
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Electric fencing, sonic guns and even armed mercenaries are being offered as the first line of defence for ships at risk in pirate-infested waters.
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William Gallas is likely to have played his last game for Arsenal after he was stripped of the club captaincy and dropped from the squad to play Manchester City today for criticising his team-mates in an interview while on international duty with France this week. The 31-year-old defender was also fined £180,000, two weeks' wages, by Arsène Wenger when he reported for what he thought would be clear-the-air talks with his manager.
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There are barely 48 hours to go before the release of perhaps the most widely anticipated album in rock music history. Yet its creator — Axl Rose — is nowhere to be found.
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Autumn is pearl harvest season and the roadsides around Shanxia Lake are heaped with mounds of mussels stripped of their bounty.
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Ever since freelance booty-hunters spotted the vulnerability of Homeric-age galleys forging trade routes in the Mediterranean, pirates have been a scourge of the high seas.
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Just as Aston Villa seek to follow up victory over Arsenal by establishing their top-four credibility against Manchester United today, Martin O'Neill has urged Gabriel Agbonlahor to back up his impressive England debut by confirming that he belongs among the elite as the Barclays Premier League champions visit Villa Park.
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As we arrive for our interview with Ken Clarke, he is groaning about having to squeeze into his black tie for a dinner. The Conservatives' man of the people is more comfortable in shirt sleeves and suede shoes. He prefers dingy jazz cellars to swanky yachts. He loves birdwatching on the moors but he would never go shooting in plus-fours - “the idea would be hilarious”, he says. For years, he played snooker every week with his son - “I should have been brilliant after a lifetime of dedication,” he says, “but I was never any good.”
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Rafael Benítez, the Liverpool manager, moved yesterday to draw a line under his dispute with Fabio Capello over Steven Gerrard's fitness, but he could not resist having the final word, claiming that “someone at the FA has made a massive mistake” in questioning the severity of an injury that has ruled the player out of this afternoon's Barclays Premier League match against Fulham.
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