The Commons backed the demand by the Government without a vote, although some backbenchers expressed their anger at the call.

Russian Prime Minister Putin said the Western assault on Qaddafi’s offensive capabilities resembles a medieval crusade.

RAF Tornado jets today joined the attack in Libya hours after British and American warships unleashed cruise missiles against Libya as the world finally turned on Colonel Gaddafi. Stormshadow missiles were launched from GR4 fast jets which had flown 3,000 miles from RAF Marham in Norfolk and back –

A major political campaign will be launched today aimed at securing a historic referendum on whether Britain should stay in the EU – or quit Brussels for good.

Greens leader Claudia Roth has criticized the German government’s response to the nuclear crisis in Japan and says the safety of reactors will be an issue in an important regional election in the state of Baden-Würrtemberg on March 27. “This will politicize the election,” she told SPIEGEL ONLINE

A three-month investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches programme has found that the taxpayer is funding far bigger individual pay packages, with one being £10million a year.

His plans, which would force millions of people to work longer for a lower pension, have sparked a furious backlash from unions this week, with some warning of a ‘summer of rage’.

The billionaire Italian Prime Minister’s eye watering spending was revealed in prosecution documents ahead of a trial centred around the infamous sex parties.

Explosive pensions reforms unveiled this morning could see health workers, teachers and police working more than a decade longer for a less generous retirement sum. Unions warn that the major Government report by former Labour minister Lord Hutton ‘lights the blue touch paper’ for strikes by millions.

Figures from the OECD put UK food inflation at 6.3 per cent, well ahead of the average of 2.1 per cent for the G7 group of nations.

A leading defence think-tank said it was difficult to see how the UK could contribute enough without hampering the fight against the Taliban.

A steady stream of firms is scrapping pension schemes and replacing them with inferior, cheaper ones

The former Lib Dem leader spoke out after Mr Hague admitted responsibility for the operation, which saw a small group of SAS soldiers held by rebel soldiers.

In Britain and Europe something very alarming has taken place. Judges are increasingly becoming a positive threat to liberty because they have usurped the political process.

Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou, who has a doctorate in theology from the University of Oxford makes some staggering statements in a forthcoming BBC2 series.

Veteran’s fury as poppy burner enjoying a life on benefits gets paltry fine and then mocks our soldiers again As a British citizen, Emdadur Choudhury enjoys benefits including a free council flat and almost £800 a month state handouts and he laughed at the paltry fine he was ordered to pay.