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Is the government playing fast and loose with the numbers?
Labour says the government has massively over-estimated how far down the track it is with infrastructure projects. Is it time for a candour deficit reduction plan?
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From oral traditions to engaging with audiences, ‘theatre’ has existed for thousands of years. So is actor Janet Suzman wrong to say it is a white European invention?
Events across South Africa pay tribute to Nelson Mandela’s anti-apartheid struggle one year on from his death.
A charismatic and well-connected MP, Jeremy Thorpe’s political career was ended by a scandalous court case in which he was accused of being behind an attempt to murder a former gay lover.
Labour says the government has massively over-estimated how far down the track it is with infrastructure projects. Is it time for a candour deficit reduction plan?
The Syrian regime says two months of US-led strikes have failed to weaken the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. Is it right – or are other motives at play?
Fifa is in the spotlight after former FA chairman David Bernstein said European teams should snub the 2018 World Cup. But this is just the latest boycott call against world football’s governing body.
Ukrainian troops and pro-Russia separatists agreed a ceasefire in September, but that hasn’t stopped fighting in eastern parts of the country.
Iran executes a woman convicted for killing a man whom she said tried to sexually abuse her – despite an international campaign urging a reprieve.
Another British Muslim from Portsmouth is killed fighting with Islamic State militants, in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani.
A second suspect arrested as part of an investigation into an alleged Islamist terror plot was cast as the main character in a film in which he is kidnapped, Channel 4 News has found. Watch here:
This morning I left the conference venue to take a look at one of the seats the Lib Dems are defending in Scotland.
Alan Henning’s brother-in-law says the family’s hopes had been raised and then shattered by Islamic State militants, as David Cameron says he will “hunt down” the British aid worker’s killers.
It was founded in the aftermath of the second world war, and now Conservatives want to curb the reach of the European Court of Human Rights. Here are six rulings it has forced on the UK.
Four senior Tesco executives are suspended after expected profits were overstated by £250m at Britain’s biggest retailer. What happened and why does it matter?
The polls have closed and the votes are being counted. Should Scotland be an independent country? That was the question for the Scottish people: tonight, overnight, we will find out the answer.