The government must end its apparent complacency and take seriously the threat of a major electro-magnetic pulse event, MPs say. Read more ...

Marie Colvin: Today it was confirmed that the war correspondent Marie Colvin has died in the Syrian city of Homs. In November 2010 Colvin gave this speech on the importance of war reporting [...] Read more ...

Unconfirmed reports from Syria say two Western journalists - an American and a French national - have been killed in the central city of Homs. Read more ...

I don’t know what annoys me more – that a high-level Labour politician can have such misguided ideas, or that the outcome of an event is reported in such a one-sided manner in the press. I am referring to The Guardian’s report on today’s IPPR event on the EU’s democratic deficit (I attended), in which former Foreign Minister Jack Straw st [...] Read more ...

The UN's nuclear agency says Iranian officials have stopped its monitors from visiting a military site in connection with Tehran's nuclear programme. Read more ...

Parts of the Syrian city of Homs are being bombarded by shells in what witnesses are describing as the heaviest attack in days. Read more ...

In 24 hours, Europe could introduce pollution controls that could stop the flow of Canada's deadly tar sands oil into the EU. But the UK is moving to block the rules. Only a huge public outcry can save it now. Click below to send an urgent message to the Transport Minister Norman Baker: [...] Read more ...

Barack Obama showed his vocal chops when he sang Sweet Home Chicago at a White House tribute concert as part of Black History Month. The US president played coy before accepting the microphone from Mick Jagger and performing a duet of sorts with blues legend BB King. Read more ...

Jack says the turnout in European parliament elections is too low, but turnout is also low in local authority elections and I’ve not seen calls for councils to be abolished on this basis. He calls for ‘an assembly of national parliaments’ to replace the European parliament. MEPs need to be skilled negotiators who can broker diplomatic deals a [...] Read more ...

WARRINGTON Conservative Future (WCF) - the young Conservative group - is encouraging students to get involved in their community and make a difference through volunteering. Read more ...

St Bride's Church Fleet Street [...] Read more ...

Marie Colvin: News organisations must invest in covering war The names of 48 journalists and other media workers who have died covering the [...] Read more ...

"They are, but they are not improving anything like as fast as schools in other countries. "Education is like trying to run up a down escala [...] Read more ...

Protests over the burning of the Koran by Nato troops are under way in the Afghan cities of Kabul and Jalalabad, with shots fired in the capital. Read more ...

kateoplis: POTUS sings Sweet Home Chicago w/B.B. King & Mick Jagger. You’re welcome. Singer in chief, for sure. Read more ...

Seumas Milne: US and Israeli leaders are talking themselves into a disastrous conflict that will make Iranian nuclear weapons a certainty [...] Read more ...

It was not only a smart refinement of Labour's fiscal position, but also a preview for the defence review that they're conducting as an alternative to the government's SDSR. 2) Target: David Cameron. 3) Values, not just interests. One of the other speakers, RUSI's Malcolm Chalmers , highlighted page 23 of the consultation paper, which sets out [...] Read more ...

Services sector shrank this month along with manufacturing, tempering a wave of optimism after a new bailout deal for Greece struck this week [...] Read more ...

The Israeli authorities’ decision to release the Palestinian detainee Khader Adnan by mid-April is insufficient, Amnesty International said [...] Read more ...