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Scottish authorities to discuss Lockerbie with Moussa Koussa
Prosecutors make formal request to speak to former Libyan minister as US lifts financial and travel sanctions against himScottish authorities investigating the Lockerbie bombing are expected to meet...
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Nick Clegg's social mobility scheme targets unpaid internships
Lib Dem leader launches strategy to open up career chances, claiming career progression should be less dependent on 'who your father's friends are'The government is aiming to reverse the growing...
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UK paves way for flight of Libyan defectors
Libyan officials who abandon the Gaddafi regime would 'be treated with respect' in the UK, William Hague tells MPsBritain will lift its ban on members of the Libyan regime entering the UK if they...
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Debunking stereotypes: Terrible cars, roads, drivers?
Poland has a poor reputation when it comes to getting behind the wheel. But moves are afoot to change thatTop Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson once suggested the real Lech Walesa stood up to the Soviet...
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World's biggest statue of Christ symbolises church's power in Poland
Secularisation seems to be a long way off in a country where 90% claim to be CatholicsAnyone wondering whether modern day Poland is still a fervently Catholic country should head to the Tesco in...
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Euro 2012 football stadiums provide grounds for Polish optimism
Construction industry boom helped Poland to become the only EU country that did not slide into recession in 2009These days construction cranes are almost as ubiquitous as storks' nests in the Polish...
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The unpalatable truth is that the anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all |...
I've discovered that when the facts don't suit them, the movement resorts to the follies of cover-up they usually denounceOver the last fortnight I've made a deeply troubling discovery. The...
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Response: These plans to boost sport for school-leavers are too little, too late
The disadvantaged will only benefit if encouraged from their early childhoodI read with hope that Jeremy Hunt, the sports and Olympics secretary, wants to focus sports funding on young people ('I've...
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Excitement grows as Vatican prepares to honour Poland's favourite son
Polish Catholics get ready for next month's beatification of their homegrown pontiff, John Paul IIKarol Wojtyla is back. The image of the Krakow seminary boy and amateur goalkeeper who went on to...
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Behind 'Rising India' lies the surrender of national dignity | Pankaj Mishra
From India's prime minister down, the rotten state of the world's largest democracy has been exposed for all to seeFood prices become intolerable for the poor. Protests against corruption paralyse the...
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Libya rape woman 'fears for her life'
Iman al-Obeidi says she has been released from detention but is receiving death threats from Gaddafi loyalistsA Libyan woman, who was bundled out of a hotel in Tripoli after claiming she had been...
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Poland's past and future mix in Gdansk, the start of the road to the 21st...
Gdansk shows an entrepreneurial zeal, but economic reconstruction is tough goingLong before Polish plumbers turned up in the UK, long even before Lech Walesa organised a strike in the shipyards, Gdansk...
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Gaza: the stain remains on Israel's war record
Richard Goldstone's partial retraction of his own report doesn't excuse the conduct of Israel's war in GazaThe Netanyahu government is doing everything it can to interpret a recent Washington Post...
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Michel Martelly wins Haiti election
'Sweet Micky' sweeps presidential runoff vote, defeating former first lady Mirlande Manigat, early results showMichel Martelly has won a landslide victory in Haiti's presidential election, tapping into...
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Twenty things you need to know about Yemen
All you need to know about Yemen, from its tribal and often bloody politics to its coffee and qat culture1 The happy land: In ancient times Yemen was known as Arabia Felix, Latin for "happy" or...
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Yemen protests: fresh clashes in Taiz
Tens of thousands demonstrate against President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern town a day after 15 people were killedFresh clashes have broken out in Taiz in southern Yemen as security forces and...
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Gaddafi nurse lifts lid on couscous and camel meat-loving leader
Libyan leader, or 'Papa', is also a generous employer who likes to give gold watches to staff, says Oksana BalinskayaMuammar Gaddafi is in rude health, enjoys Italian food and couscous with camel meat...
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Records of first world war naval deaths go online
Details of 44,000 British sailors who died at sea to be made available for ancestral researchModern memory of the first world war tends to dwell on the army casualties of the western front, but now the...
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Assistant headteacher jailed for underage sex with pupils
'Salford stallion' Christopher Drake was caught when Valentine surprise for one student was discovered by anotherAn assistant headteacher who slept with three of his pupils and called himself "the...
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From mines to fine wines: French growers plant vines on old slag heap
French winemakers believe they can turn around the fortunes of Haillicourt, a depressed former pit village in the Pas-de-CalaisTo the French, it's grim up north, around the Channel towns of Calais and...
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