A four-year-old girl was left for at least 12 hours in a house with the bodies of her mother and sister after her “jealous and controlling” father killed them in an “appalling” axe and knife attack, a British court has heard.

Two English Defence League (EDL) leaders arrested as they attempted to visit the spot where Drummer Lee Rigby was murdered have been released on bail.

Violence and riots are on the rise throughout Europe, and often, immigrants are the targets, writes Jennifer DeWan

A realisation that the inevitable may not be far away was growing among South Africans as they said prayers for their ailing former leader Nelson Mandela.

One of Scotland Yard’s most senior police officers will be quizzed by MPs over the investigation into the murder of soldier Lee Rigby.

A task force for tackling radicalisation in the UK set up by the British Prime Minister in the wake of soldier Lee Rigby’s murder is to meet monthly in a bid to deal with extremism head on, a Downing Street spokesman has said.

A second man is to appear in court charged with the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich, Scotland Yard said.

As second suspect is discharged from hospital, the soldier's family plead for peace.

Paolo Di Canio responded to fresh criticism over his appointment as Sunderland manager by insisting he is not a racist and “does not support the ideology of fascism”.

The Dean of Durham has written an open letter to new Sunderland manager Paolo di Canio calling on the Italian to publicly renounce fascism or risk being associated with “toxic far-right tendencies”.

Rioters are the enemies of democracy, the North’s First Minister said today.

SDLP Councillor Claire Hanna, her husband and their baby daughter have escaped injury after shots were fired at their home in East Belfast, hitting the front door and windows.

Politicians and church leaders are holding talks in the North this afternoon in an attempt to stem loyalist street violence over the flying of the Union flag.

The leader of the British National Party, MEP Nick Griffin, has refused to apologise for a tweet in which he referred to “Fenian bastards” — even though in the past he has claimed his ancestors came from a village in North Cork.

Boris Johnson was re-elected as Mayor of London in a surprisingly narrow victory that saw him beat rival Ken Livingstone.

He remains modest about his achievements, but Imran Khan’s tireless work to combat racism in England was groundbreaking, writes Dan Buckley

A scheduled visit to University College Cork by the leader of the British National Party Nick Griffin has been cancelled.

Rather than ban the debate or protest outside the venue, it is our duty to engage and challenge the likes of Nick Griffin, writes Emmanuelle Schön-Quinlivan

Freedom of speech is a fundamental plank of democracy. To deny anyone the right to express his or her views it to engage in censorship of the worst kind.

Almost 40 UCC academics last night welcomed the decision to withdraw an invitation to British far-right leader Nick Griffin to take part in a university debate on free speech.

TRINITY College Dublin has been forced into a U-turn on controversial plans to have British National Party (BNP) leader, Nick Griffin, join a debate on immigration.

Trinity College Dublin has been forced into a U-turn on controversial plans to have British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin join a debate on immigration.

THE committee of the Philosophical Society at Trinity College is to be congratulated for its invitation to the leader of the British National Party, Nick Griffin, to participate in the debate on the 20th October, 2011.

NICK Griffin has been invited to speak at a Trinity College Dublin event.

IT WAS supposed to be a Labour Party gig but there wasn’t all that much about Labour’s core values or policies — instead it was all about Fianna Fáil.

British National Party leader Nick Griffin fought off a bid to have him declared guilty of contempt of court today.

WikiLeaks’ payment processor is preparing to sue credit card companies Visa and MasterCard over their refusal to process donations to the whistle-blowing website.

A complaint about former British Labour Party minister and Rotherham MP Denis MacShane has been referred to the Metropolitan Police, the UK parliament's standards watchdog said today.

TONY BLAIR has cancelled a book signing event in London in the aftermath of protests against the former British Prime Minister in Dublin at the weekend.

Tony Blair today cancelled a high-profile signing session of his new memoir in central London amid concerns over planned protests.

The British National Party’s Adam Walker and other European right-wing politicians today visited a Japanese shrine that has drawn outrage for honouring war criminals.

British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin has secured an invitation to a Buckingham Palace garden party, it was disclosed today.

Labour veteran Margaret Hodge was victorious today in her battle with the leader of the British National Party.

Gordon Brown will attempt to lift himself for the third and final prime ministerial debate today after offering a grovelling apology for branding a pensioner “bigoted”.

TORY leader David Cameron laughed off being hit by an egg while out electioneering yesterday, dismissing it as the “first of the campaign”.

The British National Party began processing applications within hours of a court order banning recruitment of new members after its leader claimed to have amended the constitution.

The British National Party was today barred from taking new members after a judge ruled its constitution could discriminate against non-white people.

DAVID CAMERON yesterday warned the Tories they faced a “real fight” if they were going to oust Labour and gain power at the general election.

The British National Party today voted to approve changes to its constitution that would allow black and Asian people to become members.

The British National Party is to decide today on whether to scrap its whites-only membership policy.

British National Party MEP Andrew Brons today questioned whether the Taliban should be on an EU list of banned terror groups which includes al-Qaida.

The British National Party today denied suggestions that an elderly Sikh was set to become the party’s first non-white member.

BRITISH far-right leader Nick Griffin accused the BBC yesterday of mounting a “lynch mob” against him in a charged appearance on a TV political panel show, and called for it to be re-recorded.

The BBC defended the appearance of BNP leader Nick Griffin on a 'Question Time' in which the BNP leader gave a twitchy performance and described homosexuals as “creepy”.