London: The failure of successive governments to protect vulnerable girls from female genital mutilation is an “ongoing national scandal”, according to a report by MPs published on Thursday. The cross-party Commons home affairs select committee calls for ...

London: The failure of successive governments to protect vulnerable girls from female genital mutilation is an “ongoing national scandal”, according to a report by MPs published on Thursday. The cross-party Commons home affairs select committee calls for ...

London: The failure of successive governments to protect vulnerable girls from female genital mutilation is an “ongoing national scandal”, according to a report by MPs published on Thursday. The cross-party Commons home affairs select committee calls for ...

London: The failure of successive governments to protect vulnerable girls from female genital mutilation is an “ongoing national scandal”, according to a report by MPs published on Thursday. The cross-party Commons home affairs select committee calls for ...

Andy Murray has hinted that an unexpectedly early start to his Wimbledon quarter final may have been behind his lacklustre performance. The Scotsman lost in straight sets to 23-year-old Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov on Centre Court on Wednesday. During the ...

Andy Murray has hinted that an unexpectedly early start to his Wimbledon quarter final may have been behind his lacklustre performance. The Scotsman lost in straight sets to 23-year-old Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov on Centre Court on Wednesday. During the ...

Ghana's cedi is at risk of weakening as much as another 19 percent this year as West Africa's second-biggest economy struggles to rein in a budget deficit, according to HFC Bank Ghana Ltd. The cedi may fall to 3.50 and 4 per dollar, Benjamin Dzoboku, head ...

Ghana's cedi is at risk of weakening as much as another 15 percent this year as West Africa's second-biggest economy struggles to rein in a budget deficit, according to HFC Bank Ghana Ltd. The cedi may fall to 3.50 and 4 per dollar, Benjamin Dzoboku, head ...

Oscar Pistorius in the courtroom during day 37 of his trial. Picture: AP Photo/Jerome Delay, Pool. Pretoria - A defence expert at the Oscar Pistorius trial has been under fire throughout this morning's proceedings. Sports scientist Professor Wayne Derman ...

There will be hundreds of millions of pounds worth of talent on display when Brazil take on Colombia in Friday's World Cup quarter-final, but the contest will boil down to a battle between the No 10s. Both are 22 years of age, both have illuminated this World ...

Andy Murray has insisted there was "nothing different" about the preparations for his Wimbledon quarter-final with Grigor Dimitrov, despite conspiracy theories doing the rounds that all is not well in Camp Murray. Murray ranted towards the players' box, where ...

The Foreign Secretary should come to the Commons and condemn the actions of "Israeli terrorists" suspected of abducting and murdering a Palestinian teenager in a reprisal attack, a Labour MP said today. Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester Gorton) said all ...

Howard Tim Howard plays the ball not the man as Belgium's Divock Origi throws himself into the net against the USA. Photograph: Ruben Sprich/Reuters. Even for those of us not invested in the 16 teams that remained in the competition, the second round of ...

There will be hundreds of millions of pounds worth of talent on display when Brazil take on Colombia in Friday's World Cup quarter-final, but the contest will boil down to a battle between the No 10s. Both are 22 years of age, both have illuminated this World ...

An armoured vehicle belonging to Iraqi security forces in flames, after hundreds of militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) launched a major assault on the security forces in Mosul. (STR, AFP). Multimedia · User Galleries · News in Pictures ...

Beirut: The surprise declaration of a “caliphate” by Islamists accused of committing atrocities in Syria and Iraq has provoked an outcry even among those who dream of a state under Sharia law. The caliphate, an Islamic system of rule, was abolished nearly ...

Beirut: The surprise declaration of a “caliphate” by Islamists accused of committing atrocities in Syria and Iraq has provoked an outcry even among those who dream of a state under Sharia law. The caliphate, an Islamic system of rule, was abolished nearly ...

Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza on Thursday and militants hit back with 15 rockets, further hiking tensions after a day of violence triggered by the suspected revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager. But there was no immediate sign of a return to the clashes ...

Security is being stepped up at British airports amid fears that terrorists are working on a bomb that could sidestep current measures. The move comes after the United States called for heightened precautions amid reports two terror networks are working ...

Fighters from al-Qaeda's Nusra Front withdrew from two towns in eastern Syria on Thursday, leaving most of the border province of Deir al-Zor under the control of advancing forces of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, the Syrian Observatory for Human ...