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Emma Thompson: BNP would love your university

06.11.09

Emma Thompson attacks a university for failing to accept enough ethnic minority students - and said the BNP would like it there... more

Rwanda genocide arrest

07.10.09

A suspect wanted for orchestrating the killings of tens of thousands of people in Rwanda's 1994 genocide has been arrested. Former Rwanda deputy intelligence chief Idelphonse Nizeyimana, 46, was captured in Uganda yesterday and flown to Tanzania for trial at the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. ... more

Gordon Brown wants to spend his holiday doing social work

04.08.09

He is famously incapable of relaxing on holiday. So it comes as no surprise that faced with the horrific prospect of a month of leisure time, Gordon Brown wants to do voluntary community work... more

Holidaying MPs afraid to admit they’re taking exotic breaks

08.07.09

MPs are refusing to own up to holidays outside Europe this summer in the wake of public fury over their expenses... more

Europe must not stand by while Pakistan unravels

11.06.09

The West has to aid the 2.6 million refugees who have fled the Taliban, says a leading Pakistani commentator ... more

‘Aunty’ to female Tamil Tigers runs London protests from New Malden

01.06.09

A Tamil terror chief who allegedly handed cyanide pills to child soldiers is living in a London suburb, the Standard can reveal... more

Why Quick had to quit the Met

09.04.09

Bob Quick, the country’s most senior anti-terrorism officer, has resigned. He was right to do so... more

Guilty: the mastermind who ordered genocide of 800,000 Rwandans

18.12.08

A former army colonel accused of masterminding Rwanda's genocide in 1994 was sentenced to life in prison... more

UN probes claims of massacre

07.11.08

UN officials are investigating reports that rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo are slaughtering civilians as the region descends into chaos... more

UN chief visits Congo to help end the misery of war

04.11.08

The UN secretary-general will visit East Africa to add his weight to efforts to end the crisis gripping the DR Congo... more

UN aid convoy rolls in to relieve Congo's refugees

03.11.08

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

A silver-back gorilla and I on Oblivion Express

31.10.08

It was not a crowd, rather a loose scattering of disconsolate groups along the platform football supporters of some wretched fourth division team that had lost a match in foreign parts... more

Ceasefire in Congo holds as UN tries to set up talks

31.10.08

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

David Attenborough returns to apes

09.09.08

Sir David Attenborough is to host the charity premiere of a film chronicling the lives of the mountain gorillas with whom he was famously filmed for Life On Earth... more

Teacher, 39, dies on sixth-form trip to Rwanda

29.07.08

A teacher has died of a suspected heart attack during a school trip to Africa... more

Holiday UK for party leaders

11.07.08

David Cameron and Gordon Brown will take summer holidays in the UK as they seek to persuade voters they are tightening their belts in the economic slowdown... more

Actress Emma Thompson introduces her 'adopted' refugee son at Mandela party

26.06.08

With actor husband Greg Wise and her unofficially adopted son Tindyebwa Agaba around Emma Thompson doesn't have to look too far for a dashing leading man.... more

Hell is first great work of the 21st century

06.06.08

The Chapman Brothers have done it again – their new Hell is even better than the first, says Brian Sewell.... more

Now the faces of Jacko's children have been revealed, are they really his?

28.05.08

They've only ever been seen concealed by masks and veils. Now seen for the first time, the faces of Michael Jackson's children poses the question: do they belong to him?... more

Documenting Dafur

10.04.08

The Devil Came on Horseback tells the moving story of Brian Steidle, a captain who left the US Marines to become a military observer in Darfur.... more

Emma Thompson's 'adopted' Rwandan son moans about Britain's 'pathetic celebrity culture'

05.03.08

Five years ago he left a life of unimaginable hardship as a child soldier in war-torn Rwanda to join one of the most successful families in Britain. Tindyebwa Agaba, the 20-year-old 'adopted' son of Emma Thompson, has lived at the actress's Hampstead home and had his university education paid for by her ... more