So where are we supposed to rank the Liam Fox affair? Is it Profumo, in which national defence is endangered by blurring the line between love and war? Or is it a matter for the zealous new Bribery Act? Is it Whitewater? Is it Watergate?... more
A suspected terrorist cell is being hunted in America amid fears of a wave of attacks in New York and Washington on the 10th anniversary of 9/11... more
Condoleezza Rice ordered George W Bush not to return to Washington after the 9/11 attacks, the former national security adviser reveals in a documentary... more
Jack Bauer is back and we are plunged straight into “a situation”. The return of 24 coincides with the Government raising the terror threat from “substantial” to “severe”... more
Barack Obama was said to be on the brink of sealing a deal between the Israelis and Palestinians that would allow the stalled Middle East peace talks to be revived... more
Barack Obama has refused to rule out prosecuting Bush administration officials who sanctioned the torture methods used in the interrogation of terror suspects... more
Foreign secretary David Miliband faces claims of a cover-up over allegations that British security services colluded in the torture of a terror suspect... more
More than a million people joined Barack Obama’s inauguration party in scenes that could have come straight out of Hollywood. But behind the razzmatazz America found a profound new hope... more
Barack Obama has said he plans to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre and mark a "clear end" to torture in the US within two years of becoming president... more
Oliver Stone's George Bush biopic is sly, old-fashioned melodrama. It works as entertainment but as history, W deserves an F, says Charlotte O'Sullivan.... more
Finance: Staff anger over the failure of Lehman Brothers will be fuelled today by revelations that chief executive Dick Fuld rejected a $5.3 billion fund injection by a Korean bank... more
Since 1914, the White House Correspondents' Dinner has been the highlight of political journalism's social calendar, an evening where the president of the day can poke fun at his public image. But it's a fair bet that no Commander in Chief has ever faced an audience quite like the one George W. Bush addressed last night - Pamela Anderson, Jenny McCarthy, Ashlee Simpson and Heidi and Lauren from reality TV show The Hills
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Listing ex-lovers, proposing Kylie For Pope and singing about Dick Cheney's wife locking eyes with Saddam, Taylor Mac has the gay, cross-dressing, ukelele-strumming satirist's market cornered.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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