Press regulation plans proposed by the industry have “serious shortcomings”, David Cameron said as he defended delays in pushing forward a Commons-backed version instead.

Media reform campaigners today backed a cross-party deal on industry regulation in the UK, claiming it would protect press freedom as well as victims of newspaper intrusion.

Jamaica's prime minister says she wants her country to sever ties with the British monarchy soon so it can turn the page on its colonial past and focus on development.

New Jamaica prime minister Portia Simpson Miller has pledged to replace the Queen as head of state and make the island a republic.

Thousands of defiant anti-government demonstrators have fanned out to other parts of Thailand's capital today, ignoring police orders to end their occupation of Bangkok's paralysed commercial district.

Voters in the Caribbean nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines decide today whether to break their ties with Britain's monarchy, even as the Queen is making a visit to the region.

The Democratic Unionists will block any bid to have an Irish Language Act passed in the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Rev Ian Paisley insisted today.

Two Democratic Unionist MPs are to join Northern First Minister Ian Paisley as members of the Privy Council, it was announced today.

Coup leaders have chosen a former army commander and close adviser to Thailand’s powerful monarch to lead the country until promised elections next year, the auditor general said today.

An appeal by six Pitcairn islanders over their convictions for sex crimes was today cut short after judges overturned a key plank of their lawyers’ argument.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will urge the Rev Ian Paisley today to enter government in Northern Ireland with Sinn Féin early next year.

Six men from Pitcairn Island yesterday lost Supreme Court appeals against their convictions for a string of sex attacks dating back 40 years on the tiny and remote Pacific home to descendants of the HMS Bounty mutiny.

An appeal by six Pitcairn men against their convictions on serious sex abuse charges in a case that drew international attention ended in New Zealand today, with judges expected to deliver a verdict in mid-May.

Six men from remote Pitcairn Island today launched a challenge to the British laws used to convict them last year of a string of sex abuse cases dating back as many as 40 years.

Seven men on trial for alleged sex attacks on tiny Pitcairn island – home to descendants of the Bounty mutineers – might have to wait until next year to learn if they will face jail, British officials said today.

Lawyers defending seven Pitcairn Islands men against a string of sex charges have been granted the right to challenge the trial process before Britain’s highest appellate court, British authorities said today.

The Supreme Court of tiny Pitcairn Island today rejected an application by seven men to have their trial on sex charges delayed until Britain’s Privy Council can consider their case.

A jury in Trinidad has sentenced two men to death by hanging for killing three people, one of them a former BBC anchorwoman, during a robbery.

Britain’s Privy Council has ruled that Jamaica’s mandatory death penalty for murder convictions was unconstitutional.

Two men were today sentenced to death for killing a priest and an Irish nun during an attack on a St Lucia church in which they doused parishioners with petrol and set them alight.

TWO men who stormed a church, doused parishioners with petrol and set them ablaze could be sentenced to death for the murders of an Irish nun and priest who died in the attack.

Two men who stormed a church, doused parishioners with petrol and set them ablaze could be sentenced to death for the murders of an Irish nun and priest who died in the attack.

A court in London was today being called on to settle a long-running legal battle in New Zealand between traditional and urban Maoris over ownership of fishing assets.