THE Queen looks set to ask the government for a significant increase in her Civil List as annual accounts revealed yesterday that her reserve funds will run out by her Diamond

MEMBERS of David Cameron's shadow cabinet earn half a million pounds between them on top of their parliamentary salaries, it was disclosed yesterday, as he ordered them t

A SCHOOLGIRL has become Britain's third swine flu victim, as it emerged the number of cases across the country has soared to almost 6,000.

SCOTLAND is safer as part of the United Kingdom than it would be if it separated, the man who until recently headed the British Army has claimed.

UP TO 200,000 undated 20p coins that have gone into circulation by mistake - and they could be worth £75 each.

The party of Regions again insists on necessity of the parliament's control over the distribution of the loan, granted by the International Monetary Fund. "We can't allow today this money to be used at discretion of a group of politicians

Experts recommend Ukrainians willing to keep their money to pay attention to the gold, the Delo newspaper reports, according to MIGnews. Deputy chairman of the board at Finance and Credit bank Ihor Lvov says precious metal is a smooth water

The Party of Regions faction will block parliament if MPs don't increase the minimum wage, the party's leader, Viktor Yanukovych, said in a statement posted on the party's Web site on Thursday. "The parliament can't go on vacation without increasing

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko hopes that an investor for the construction of new terminal at the Lviv airport will be attracted by August, she said at a briefing during her visit to the construction site of new stadium in Lviv,

Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Wednesday there were no grounds for reviewing natural gas supply and transit contracts with Ukraine . "I cannot see any grounds for reviewing the pricing and transit conditions," Gazprom deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev told

THE state will pay £25 billion more in welfare than it raises in income tax this year, amid further evidence of the crushing effects of the recession.

THE Scottish Government has stepped up calls for the UK identity card scheme to be scrapped.

A MAN and a 15-year-old boy were recovering from bullet wounds last night after a gunman wearing a motorbike helmet opened fire in a busy restaurant.

ONE in five university undergraduates and one in three college students say they are so poor they have to go without food, according to a new government survey.

AN official report into the collapse of MG Rover has been submitted to the government more than four years after the car-maker's demise.

The report by security expert Andrew Cockburn also says that the US ignored disgraced nuclear scientist A Q Khan's proliferation activities in the 1990s.

IAF used the expertise of its air warriors to retrieve the most vital element sought after any air crash -- the Flight Data Recorder (FDR)-cum-Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) or black box in common parlance -- to help provide clues to

Chennai would have seen a spate of terror attacks had the Lashkar-e-Tayiba not called off their dirty plans at the last minute, revealed the Gulf operative of the LeT -- Sarfaraz Nawaz.

The Centre should call off the operations in West Midnapore district and instead engage the Central forces in unearthing illegal arms allegedly stockpiled by the Communist Party of India-Marxist in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said on Monday.

Tamil Nadu's Rs 1,334 crore Hogenakkal drinking water project, which triggered opposition from neighbouring Karnataka since it envisages drawing water from Cauvery, was on track and expected to be completed by 2012, state Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin said