The Coalition has been urged to lobby Afghan president Hamid Karzai over the sale of child brides after the Evening Standard revealed that girls as young as eight are still being sold... more
A Royal Marine whose culinary skills on BBC show The Restaurant persuaded Raymond Blanc to offer him a gastropub has quit and is now working in Afghanistan... more
Tickets for the Games go on sale next Tuesday. Matt Majendie guides you through the 16 days of action and 26 sports - today's spotlight is on the modern pentathlon... more
A US Army private suspected of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the WikiLeaks whistleblowing website is charged with aiding the enemy, a crime that can carry the death penalty... more
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange dressed up as an old woman to try to shake off American agents he feared were trailing him, according to a new book... more
This star-studded classic - Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr and Frank Sinatra to name but a few - won eight oscars in 1953, and this rerelease reminds us why ... more
Watching President Obama addressing the nation from the Oval Office on Tuesday night, I was reminded continuously of the early Seventies and the American withdrawal from Vietnam... more
Four young unknowns from Fulham are the surprise nominees in this year’s Novello music and songwriting awards. Richard Godwin meets Patch William.... more
London businessman locked up in Iraq for more than a year on terrorism charges has spoken of his ordeal for the first time after being reunited with his family... more
The Men Who Stare At Goats, taken from Jon Ronson's non-fiction book about the US Army's attempt to use paranormal powers, doesn’t quite cut it.... more
Defence group Cobham today said it was boosted by a $1.2 billion (£733 million) contract to make intercom systems for US Army vehicles as revenue in the first nine months of 2009 grew “strongly” ... more
Scientists develop the world's first vaccine that offers protection against Aids, cutting the risk of infection from the HIV virus by nearly a third... more
As the world awaits the new allied strategy for Afghanistan, two British generals have sounded a surprising, if suitably cautious, note of optimism about the prospects for success.... more
Foreign Secretary David Miliband failed to rule out need for additional troops in Afghanistan as he discussed need for joint military and political strategy to defeat Taliban... more
White House officials attack British media over their treatment of shocking Abu Ghraib prison abuse photographs the Obama administration wants to suppress... more
The attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team coach in Lahore marks another tragic example of terrorism affecting the sporting world. Here, we take a look at other occasions on which sport has been hit by terrorist attacks... more
Fifty years ago this week, Jerry Lee Lewis arrived in Britain and revealed his young companion was his 13-year-old wife, Myra. It destroyed the rock'n'roll sensation and set the pattern for decades of pop excess... more
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