The Kremlin mounted a concerted campaign yesterday to point the finger of suspicion at the billionaire businessman Boris Berezovsky over the death of his friend

The Bush administration appeared yesterday to be losing its fight to stop the US media calling the escalating violence in Iraq a civil war after one of the main television networks formally announced it would break the taboo.

Many EU nations were aware that the CIA used their territory for the transfer or detention of terror suspects, a draft European parliament report says.

Eight former staff members of a Florida juvenile boot camp have been charged with manslaughter in the death of a 14-year-old boy whose beating by guards was captured on videotape, prosecutors said today.

An extended account of the Bush administration’s disastrous foreign policy in the Middle East

The U.S. intelligence community pours millions into higher education, paying for hundreds of scholarships, intelligence-related courses and fellowships at nearly a dozen universities, public documents and interviews with officials show.

A lawyer working for the defence team of the ousted Iraqi president has been ejected from the court for talking to the prosecution in too familiar a manner.

Opposition parties today called for a full public inquiry into “extraordinary rendition” following a scathing EU report that accused the British government of obstructing investigations into the controversial flights.

The royal editor of the News of the World pleaded guilty to plotting to intercept private phone messages when he appeared at the Old Bailey today.

Mexican authorities released a groundbreaking report over the weekend on the government’s use of violent repression to crush its opponents during the 1960s-80s.

Thousands of British troops could remain in Iraq for another decade, Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, said yesterday.

Bush and Blair will blame anyone but themselves for the consequences of their disastrous war - even its victims.

Police investigating the death of the Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko found traces of the radioactive metal polonium-210 in two buildings in central London as efforts continued to trace the source of the poison.