Three teenagers are due to appear in court charged with the murder of 16-year-old Ben Kinsella.

MPs are facing further outrage over their expenses regime after they rejected calls for the abolition of the "John Lewis list" and independent scrutiny of their claims.

Britain's top spy is in a coma after collapsing at his home, according to reports.

Detectives investigating the brutal murder of two high-flying French students are exploring the possibility it was linked to an earlier burglary.

A £7.1 billion programme to equip the armed forces with a new computer system is running 18 months behind schedule and £182 million over budget, the Whitehall spending watchdog has warned.

The cost of tackling recorded crime is £15 billion a year or £275 per person, according to a new report.

A minister has warned that many British Muslims feel "like the Jews of Europe".

The collapse in popularity of Gordon Brown's government mirrors the fall of John Major's administration in the 1990s, according to a new book on the Conservatives' "wilderness years" by a former Tory chairman, Lord (Norman) Fowler.

Treasury plans to raise around £2 billion in road taxes before 2011 will cost motorists four times more than would be saved by the dropping of the proposed October 2p fuel duty increase, the RAC Foundation has said.

Noise complaints have soared in some areas as residents protest about smokers congregating in beer gardens and outside pubs.

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