Fire Minister Brandon Lewis probably had a fair idea what Sir Ken Knight would deliver when he asked him to conduct an "independent" report into fire and rescue services in England.
As LGBT activists worldwide celebrate anti-homophobia day we are reminded of prevailing prejudice
Bradford has seen the launch of a new campaign to battle the sources of child sex exploitation - and combat far-right bids to make it a racial issue
MEPs asked yesterday for the unprecedented use of EU anti-terrorist funds to help the sisters of murdered Belfast man Robert McCartney finance a civil suit against IRA members who are suspected of killing him.
SYSTEMATIC political repression in Ethiopia's largest state has kept people there from freely participating in the country's third general election campaign, Human Rights Watch claimed yesterday.
SOUTH American and Arab leaders opened an unprecedented summit yesterday to usher in a new wave of co-operation that aims to undercut the international influence of the United States.
WASHINGTON is not taking the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as seriously as it once did and is undermining global support for the campaign to shut down the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programmes, former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said on Monday night.
US President George W Bush told a massive crowd in Georgia yesterday that the ex-Soviet republic is proving to the world that determined people can rise up and claim their freedom from oppressive rulers.
ISRAEL must withdraw from the Gaza Strip, no matter how well Islamists do in Palestinian parliamentary elections a month before the pullout, Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz said yesterday.
NORTH Korea criticised the United States yesterday for warning that it might be getting ready to test a nuclear bomb, but Pyongyang did not confirm or deny that such preparations were underway.
ITALIAN Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini suggested yesterday that Italian troops might stay in Iraq into early 2006 after Iraqi elections are held.
THE results of Northern Ireland's local council elections showed big gains for the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein yesterday.