Gordon Brown will be going back to Tony Blair’s policies as he addresses the Labour Party Conference in Brighton on Tuesday in a speech that could make or break Labour’s election chances next year.
Government ministers, movie directors, writers and intellectuals have expressed shock and outrage following the arrest of Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski in Switzerland on three-decade-old charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
A seemingly united Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy promised cooperation on climate change and the world economy at a Franco-British summit in the French town of Evian on Monday, ahead of the G8 summit on July 8.
For the six volunteers beginning a tough experiment simulating a voyage to Mars on Tuesday, the physical and mental effects of space and isolation will be the real test. What exactly is in store for the volunteers of the Mars 500 experiment?
On Tuesday, six volunteers will ‘blast off’ into the simulated wilds of space as part of the Mars 500 experiment in Moscow. The 105-day trip will test man’s capacity to handle a real space flight to the Red Planet.
The release of Gilad Shalit, captured by Hamas in 2006, became Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s top priority on Sunday. But to what extent is the young Israeli soldier a pawn in the peace process?
Vaila FINCH 
