A serial squatter has left tips on a website to help others get into a £4 million house in Hampstead Garden Suburb after he was forced to leave... more
One of London's most prolific squatters has moved into a £4 million house - but said today it is 'not posh enough' for him because it has no pool... more
ENRC, the Kazakh mining firm defending allegations it bought a mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the cheap after it had been illegally confiscated, was back doing deals... more
Shares in Soco International plunged by 9% as the oil explorer prepares to plug and abandon a well in the Democratic Republic of Congo after hitting water... more
Rwandan and Congolese rebels gang-rape nearly 200 women and some baby boys over four days within miles of a UN peacekeepers’ base in the eastern Congo... more
A Ugandan rebel group has killed at least 255 adults and children in the past 18 months in Congo and Central African Republic, according to Human Rights Watch... more
Gold miner Randgold Resources says its production for the year may fall about 5% from its target as it announces that profit has almost doubled... more
Staff Benda Bilili reinforced their unofficial mantra — that handicaps exist in the mind, not in the legs — with astounding flair and joie de vivre... more
John Redwood predicts the increase in capital gains tax will lead to a fall in revenue — rather than the extra £725 million the Treasury is projecting... more
More than 1,400 civilians have been killed so far this year in eastern Congo during army operations to oust militiamen from the area, Human Rights Watch said... more
It's the new parlour game: trying to find upsides to the recession. There must be some. An end to boasting about property price rises, obviously; a growing sense of disgust with the gross luxuries we so coveted in the boom years - the competitive holidaying, the property makeovers. Perhaps out of hardship there will grow a new sense of values? ... more
UN officials are investigating reports that rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo are slaughtering civilians as the region descends into chaos... more
A United Nations aid convoy escorted by UN peacekeepers crossed into the rebel-held zone of eastern Congo today as supplies for more than 250,000 refugees finally started getting through... more
UN and American envoys are attempting to set up peace talks between rebel leaders and the government in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a shaky ceasefire continued to hold... more
London Gateway, the £1.5bn container port under construction on the Thames at Thurrock, will have capacity to unload six of the world's largest ships at one time and have as much impact on the capital as a new airport or half a dozen Westfield shopping centres
With London Fashion Week kicking off on Friday, British designer Matthew Williamson tells Rosamund Urwin about breaking up with his ex, post-show partying and his new model man
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