RAPE defendants will not win the right to have their identity protected, the British Ministry of Justice said yesterday, reneging on a pledge made in May.

BRITISH prime minister David Cameron backed his foreign secretary William Hague yesterday after an aide resigned over “malicious” rumours that they had an inappropriate relationship.

A BRITISH government minister announced yesterday he had separated from his wife and was “coming to terms with his homosexuality”.

Israeli defence forces were today accused of shooting at a group of British politicians.

Iain Duncan Smith was today appealing to Tory MPs not to dump him after admitting he had made mistakes during his leadership.

The inquiry currently being carried out into the events of Bloody Sunday is expected to cost the taxpayer at least £100m.