RARELY is a book so engrossing and pacey that it makes me miss my train stop. But such is the case with BBC Newsnight reporter John Sweeney’s first thriller, Cold. 

TV presenter Charlie Webster has resigned as a patron of Sheffield United after the club allowed former player and convicted rapist Ched Evans to return for training.

A Norwegian man of Somali origin is suspected of helping to plan and carry the attack on a Kenyan shopping centre last month, it has been claimed.

Barack Obama has yet to take a decision on whether to go ahead with a military strike against Syria, the White House has said.

OUR government and our officials should not be complacent about the outcome of a British referendum on EU membership, expecting either that it won’t go ahead or that, if it does, the British will vote to remain within the EU.

Amateur boxing’s world governing body AIBA launched a vigorous but flawed defence of their seedings system for the World Championships in Baku today, describing “insinuations” contained in media reports as a “cheap shot”.

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan suffered an embarrassing slip-up at the launch of Fianna Fáil’s economics manifesto, denying remarks he made in his Budget 2010 speech that “the worst is over”.

STEM cells supplied to a Dutch clinic where Irish multiple sclerosis (MS) patients went for treatment were not “intended for human use”, a General Medical Council (GMC) hearing in London was told.

Tory leader David Cameron conceded today that his party had more work to do to win over voters as opinion polls suggested his lead over Labour was fuelled far more by discontent with Labour than approval of his own policies.

Babysitter Suzanne Holdsworth was tonight celebrating freedom following a long campaign to clear her name.

The makers of indigestion medicine Gaviscon today denied attempting to maintain a market monopoly, thereby “cheating the NHS” out of millions of pounds, after a series of emails were leaked.

Diana, Princess of Wales’s blossoming relationship with her new love Dodi Fayed left the Queen “concerned” as the couple grew closer, the inquest was told today.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair’s perceived role as the restraining hand on a belligerent American shoulder readying for war with Iraq has been revealed for exactly what it was all along: public perception.