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Fan who attacked Alkmaar keeper reportedly given six months in jail
• Ajax fan tried to kick goalkeeper in Dutch cup match• Two months of supporter's sentence have been suspendedA Dutch court has reportedly sentenced the hooligan who attacked AZ Alkmaar's goalkeeper...
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Rick v Rick: Perry earmarks Santorum for attack ad treatment | Paul Harris
'Wink Taxandspend' narrates as Perry goes after Santorum – which means the Pennsylvania senator has truly arrivedWho?It's Rick Perry, the rootin', tootin', coyote-shootin' Texan governor whose campaign...
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Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill expecting first child
Caleb Followill and wife, Victoria's Secret model Lily Aldridge, make announcement of pregnancyKings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill and his wife, Victoria's Secret model Lily Aldridge, have announced...
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Syria, Egypt and Middle East unrest - Thursday 29 December 2011
• Egyptian authorities launch raids on NGOs• Violence greets observers' arrival in Damascus suburb• Criticism of mission grows amid concerns over Dabi• Read the latest summary9.00am: Welcome to Middle...
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The arts in 2012: architecture
Jonathan Glancey picks his highlights of the year aheadTate oil tanksThe cavernous old underground oil tanks beneath Tate Modern, the former Bankside power station, are due to reopen as performance and...
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Iowa GOP caucus 2012: Rick Santorum on the rise
Follow Thursday's political action in Iowa as GOP candidate Rick Santorum jumps in the polls with just five days remaining• Read our mid-day summary hereGood morning: as the political world recovers...
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Thatcher cabinet 'wobbled' over IRA hunger strikers
National Archives releases papers that lay bare fraught private discussions over government's stance on Maze prisonersThe Thatcher government wobbled in its resolution to resist the IRA's Maze prison...
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Margaret Thatcher threatened to veto BBC programme about MI5 and MI6
National Archives' files show how PM tried to browbeat BBC and reveals speculation about Erroll Flynn being a Nazi agentThe Conservative government threatened to "veto" a BBC Panorama programme about...
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Thatcher warned of defence cuts dangers before Falklands war
National Archives files show growing sense of foreboding by Royal Navy that 'ad hoc' cuts would harm national securityProphetic warnings about the dangers for British seapower were delivered to the...
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Pope's address to parliament vetoed, National Archives files reveal
Margaret Thatcher ruled out suggested speech by Pope John Paul II amid fears that Ian Paisley would 'make a nuisance'Suggestions that the pope be given the honour of addressing both houses of...
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Thatcher went behind cabinet's back with Trident purchase
National Archives files show two-thirds of ministers opposed buying missile system and found out about deal after leak in USThe Downing Street papers reveal that two-thirds of Margaret Thatcher's first...
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Crayfish invasion of England's waterways tracked by radio
North American predators move upstream at 500m a month, spreading disease to native species, Environment Agency findsMembers of an aggressive species of crayfish which have been invading England's...
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More than 40 travel agencies crashed in 2012 thanks to downturn and disasters
Arab spring, Thai floods and online bookings add to industry problemsThe economic downturn, natural disasters and the Arab spring have combined with surging internet bookings to force 41 UK travel...
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Leopold Hawelka, luminary of Viennese cafe culture, dies aged 100
Austrian culture minister joins those paying tribute to coffee house owner who hosted princes and postwar displacedAndy Warhol stopped by for a coffee. So did princes, paupers, playwrights, poets and...
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MoD names two servicemen killed in Afghanistan
Royal Marine Captain Tom Jennings and Squadron Leader Anthony Downing of the RAF were fatally injured south of KabulTwo British servicemen who died after the vehicle they were travelling in was caught...
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Michele Bachmann limps to the finish line in Iowa after one-two punch
On the eve of the Iowa caucus, two high-profile departures from the Republican candidate's team throw her campaign into a tailspinRepublican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann insisted she would...
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US mulls transfer of high-risk Taliban prisoner in peace bid
Mohammed Fazl has been held at Guantánamo Bay since early 2002The Obama administration is considering transferring to Afghan custody a senior Taliban official suspected of major human rights abuses as...
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Jamaica's opposition People's National Party wins election
Voters in Jamaica gave the country's first female leader Portia Simpson Miller a second chance to govern the islandJamaica's opposition capitalised on discontent over the economy to return to power on...
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North Korea warns the world: no change in policy under Kim Jong-un
Defence commission says 'foolish politicians including the puppet forces in South Korea' should expect no changesHopes for a new era of engagement with North Korea faded on Friday after the country's...
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Ethiopia's partnership with China | Deborah Bräutigam
China sees Ethiopia as a land of business opportunities, but the African country remains in charge of any dealsIn late November, Habros Seguar, an Ethiopian industry ministry official, told me how the...
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