Introducing minimum pricing for alcohol would not target problem drinkers and would hit jobs and trade, a pro-business economics consultancy said.

As birth control methods go, it sounds like one of the more extreme examples.

Rapists and murderers will no longer be able to claim compensation for being victims of crime under new plans that are being proposed by the Government.

Spending on older people's social care in England has fallen by half a billion pounds, according to a new report.

The number of people going under the knife for cosmetic surgery rose 6% between 2010 and 2011, new figures show.

AMMAN (Reuters) - Troops seized eastern suburbs of Damascus from rebels late Sunday, opposition activists said, after two days of fighting only a few kilometres from the centre of power of President Bashar al-Assad. "The Free Syrian Army has made a tactical withdrawal. Regime forces have re-occupied the suburbs and started …

A rock band made up of Russian former paratroopers has scored a surprise hit with a song that labels Vladimir Putin a "tyrant", registering half a million hits on YouTube.

Huge crowds of jubilant supporters hailed Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she hit the campaign trail Sunday ahead of by-elections seen as a key test of the regime's commitment to reform.

Thousands of opposition activists took to their cars Sunday to protest Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's bid to return to the presidency, in a rally held on a Moscow ring road.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran sent conflicting signals in a dispute with the West over its nuclear ambitions, vowing to stop oil exports soon to "some" countries but postponing a parliamentary debate on a proposed halt to crude sales to the European Union. The Islamic Republic declared itself optimistic about a visit by U.N. …