'Russian ties are key' president candidate says

Pro-Moscow candidate ousted in 2004 by the ‘Orange Revolution’ over ballot rigging claims is leading race for the top job

Brown 'went for second best to spite Tories'

The Prime Minister rejected advice from Lord Mandelson to seek one of the economic posts once Tony Blair’s bid had failed

Mumbai’s iconic Taj hotel has yet to fully reopen

A year after Islamist terrorists struck the iconic hotel the Taj is still partially closed and will not be fully restored until next April

Town salutes war dead for 100th time

The town fell silent as the bodies of Rifleman Andrew Fentiman, 23, and Corporal Loren Marlton-Thomas, 28, passed through

World’s biggest cruise ship: Oasis of the Seas

The 225,000-tonne Oasis of the Seas begins her first paying cruise on December 1, with prices from £1,786 for nine nights

British barrister to represent Karadzic

Richard Harvey, QC, the former Bosnian Serb leader if continues to boycott his trial at The Hague when it resumes in March

Police chief ‘stole images of stars’ twins’

Surrogate mother to Sarah Jessica Parker’s baby girls told court Barry Carpenter tried to sell the ultrasound pictures

Mumbai 'mastermind' preaches in mosque

Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, delivers sermons to thousands of devoteees as police stand guard

Allegations against 'the quiet American'

David Headley is accused of helping the terrorists who carried out the Mumbai attack, and of planning another atrocity

Organised crime mushrooms in fungi trade

Gangs have been pillaging woods in southern France and selling their finds on the black market but forest owners are fighting back

Lancashire lass largely unknown in home town

Few people in Up Holland, a Lancashire mining village, could recognise their newly famous neighbour, the EU foreign minister

Scholar finds death certificate in Turin Shroud

Dr Barbara Frale claims she deciphered the burial certificate of 'Jesus the Nazarene' from fragments imprinted on the cloth

Westminster dismay over Ashton ascent

Rise of little-known Labour peer to EU 'foreign minister' provokes dismay among ex-government colleagues

Russian priest assassinated in his church

Father Daniil Sysoyev was an outspoken critic of Islam but he also had enemies among Russian nationalists and pagans

COMMENT: How the Lisbon treaty begat two nonentities

We were told that Europe would get two heavyweights to represent it to the world - but there was never a chance of that

Q&A: Van Rompuy and Ashton - what next?

The new choices for President of the European Council and EU 'foreign minister' still have some hurdles to overcome

EU's Ashton promises to be 'best choice'

Little-known Labour peer chosen as Europe's first 'foreign minister' expresses determination to prove herself in the job

Second conjoined twin 'waking slowly'

Krishna bore more of the brunt of the surgery than her sister Trishna who is already awake and talking to guardians