Screening protocols for Ebola in the UK will be reviewed after a nurse being treated for Ebola in London was allowed to leave Heathrow even though she was tested repeatedly.

Mali has confirmed a new case of Ebola and said two more suspected patients are being tested, raising concern about a further spread of the disease which has already killed at least five people in the country.

A British humanitarian worker in Sierra Leone has told of the country’s desperate bid to contain the deadly Ebola virus, as NHS staff prepare to travel to Africa to help tackle the outbreak.

Two of the country’s longest serving overseas development agencies have joined forces to fight hunger in Africa under a merger that will make them the biggest organisation of their kind in Ireland or Britain.

Earlier this week, at the London Summit on Family Planning organised jointly by the British Government’s Department for International Development and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, it was announced that the UK was doubling its efforts on family planning in the developing world to £180m per year, through direct and indirect support.

The UK coalition government’s austerity drive will get under way in earnest today when Chancellor George Osborne unveils some of the biggest spending cuts ever attempted in the Western world

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was warned weeks before the Iraq war began that the US was unprepared for running the country after the invasion, newly-released letters showed today.

The UK's Attorney General “misled” the British Government over the case for going to war with Iraq, Clare Short told the inquiry into the conflict today.

A senior British Army officer described today how he warned Tony Blair two days before the invasion of Iraq that there were insufficient preparations for dealing with the aftermath of the conflict.

Mobile phones could be given to ordinary Afghans under proposals to counter Taliban propaganda being considered by ministers, it was disclosed today.

THE parliamentary watchdog in Britain has released an extremely critical report of the Department for International Development.

A deal may be in the pipeline to allow a US flotilla – and French and British ships in the same situation – to finally join in the relief effort after the devastating Cyclone Nargis.

The investigation into how cattle in England became infected with foot-and-mouth disease is now focusing on a nearby research laboratory.

Ethiopia today accused bitter rival Eritrea of orchestrating the kidnapping of five Europeans and eight Ethiopians, describing it as an act of terrorism.

Five freed British Embassy hostages are to be reunited with family and loved ones after being kidnapped in Ethiopia and held captive for 13 days by an armed rebel group, officials said today.

A British aid agency today threatened to suspend work in a mountainous district in west Nepal, refusing to register their work with communist rebels who have major influence in the area.

France mobilised to send urgent aid to Lebanon, the Red Cross managed to get relief supplies to the south, and Israel agreed to allow a safe corridor for ensuring that food and medicine reaches those in need.

The Pentagon’s ‘attack dog’, Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, was named by US President George Bush yesterday to take over as head of the World Bank.

SIX weeks after the Indian Ocean tsunami tragedy, the UN has received little more than a third of tsunami aid funding pledged by governments, a senior official said yesterday.

Irish star Bono was expected today to urge EU development ministers to reform aid development in Africa as a matter of urgency.

Disaster agencies were tonight on standby after up to 500 people died in an earthquake which rocked Iran.

A plane carrying the first humanitarian aid shipment to leave Britain for crisis-torn Afghanistan was due to take off tonight.

Shipments of food and pro-American propaganda could be air-dropped inside Afghanistan to undermine support for the Taliban.

The first British humanitarian aid flight to Afghanistan was tonight delayed as Government officials awaited clearance for the plane to land.

The deputy Prime Minister of the former Yugoslavia spoke today of his country’s bold decision to send Slobodan Milosevic to face justice.