The Russian defence ministry has drafted a law to ban social media posts by professional soldiers and other military personnel on security grounds

Luigi Di Maio, the leader of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, indicated on Wednesday that he was willing to compromise on his choice of finance minister – previously the main roadblock to agreeing an administration

The Labour Party has accused Theresa May of breaking her promises and continuing “business as usual” with Russia after the Conservative Party accepted another £100,000 donation from the wife of a former minister in Vladimir Putin’s government

To understand fully any country's political system, one needs to understand something of its history. This is especially true of the United Kingdom because its history has been very different from most other nations and, as a result, its political system is very different from most other nations too.

ritish politics in early March has been a tale of four prime ministers—two former ones, the present holder of the office, and one who would like to take over. Never in British history has there been such discordance between the past, present, and possibly future occupants of Downing Street.

He remains one of the few liberal voices in British politics today. On May 24th Mr Clegg discussed the threat to open societies with The Economist. The interview has been lightly edited for clarity.

US-Hungarian Billionaire philanthropist George Soros faces new accusations of interfering in British politics after announcing he’s supporting a bid to push for a second Brexit referendum within a year.

Every adoption agency in Ireland has been involved in illegal child registrations, according to the head of children's charity Barnardos.

Japanese hunters caught and killed 122 pregnant minke whales as part of its Antarctic summer "field survey"

More than 2,000 Russian women who lived under the Islamic State group have disappeared.

Its press secretary suggested liberal TV stars suffered no consequences for saying "the most horrible things" about President Donald Trump.

According to ICE, Ms Hernandez was "processed as an expedited removal" when she applied for admission at the San Ysidro port of entry in California on 9 May.

Kim Kardashian West has met President Donald Trump to discuss a potential pardon for a 63-year-old great grandmother who is serving life in prison.

While it would remain unaffiliated, Mr Cash - who succeeded the late Bob Crow in 2014 - said the union strongly backed Labour's stance on rail nationalisation and employment rights.

Chris Grayling wrote to MPs over the "wholly unsatisfactory" service on Govia Thameslink Railway and Northern.

English-qualified solicitors could find it harder to work on deals in Europe—and may find that is where their clients have gone

, that sought to reform their legal systems in order to gain economic and political power comparable to that of Western European nation-states

Many writers also found a new audience in children, giving rise to work such as Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and generating later classics such as Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit stories, A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, and even, it can be argued, the late 20th-century work of J.K. Rowling.