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.

Tony Blair’s long-awaited appearance before the Iraq Inquiry got under way today.

Tony Blair arrived early for his highly-anticipated appearance at the Iraq Inquiry today as he prepared to be grilled on why he took Britain to war.

Tony Blair was warned two months before the invasion of Iraq it would be illegal to go to war without United Nations’ authority, the inquiry into the conflict heard today.

The Chilcot Inquiry will look into Britain’s stewardship of Basra and southern Iraq following the 2003 invasion today, as it takes evidence from two defence secretaries who held office after the toppling of Saddam Hussein.

Osama bin Laden’s former driver was jailed today after being convicted of supporting terrorism in the first US war crimes trial since the Second World War.

The Serious Fraud Office’s decision to drop its investigation into alleged bribery and corruption involving arms deals between BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia was overturned by the High Court in the UK today.

Two young English boys featured on the YouTube website being goaded into fighting each other have been identified and are safe and well, police said today.

Tony Blair went too far when he applied “irresistible pressure” to end the Serious Fraud Office’s investigation into alleged bribery and corruption involving arms deals between BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia, the High Court was told today.

Gordon Brown’s controversial proposals to extend pre-charge detention for terror suspects were hit with a fresh blow today when former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith said he had seen no evidence to justify going beyond 28 days.

Delays in bringing cases before the North’s Crown Courts must be slashed by a third within the next three years, the Attorney General said today.

Russia's top prosecutor told his British counterpart today that Russia could prosecute the chief suspect in the Alexander Litvinenko killing if Britain presents sufficient evidence, the Interfax news agency reported.

The head of defence giant BAE Systems sought to defend the firm’s reputation as the company faced attacks from protesters and shareholders at its annual meeting today.

The British Attorney General is being asked to consider bringing perjury charges against the former boss of BP.

Revised rules for the treatment and military trials of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp are “too little and too late”, Britain’s attorney general said today, repeating his call to close the facility.

Recommendations empowering victims and survivors of the Northern conflict are to be published this week.

Preliminary hearings for the inquest into Diana, Princess of Wales’s death will take place today.

Ministers would not seek to interfere in a fraud investigation into a multibillion-pound arms deal with Saudi Arabia, the UK Department of Foreign Affairs said today.

Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain still has the confidence of the British Prime Minister, Downing Street said today, following the launch of an inquiry into whether he or his officials deliberately misled the High Court.

Phone-tap evidence that could have seen scores of terrorists convicted in the North should be allowed, a human rights group said today.

A heartbroken mother failed today in a bid to have the evil killer of her teenage daughter serve a longer jail sentence.

A CONVICTED paedophile who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a three-year-old girl was yesterday jailed for a minimum of five years, sparking outrage from the child’s family and immediate calls for the “unduly lenient” sentence to be referred to Britain’s Court of Appeal.

Three detainees at Guantanamo Bay committed suicide in what apparently was a joint pact to protest the US military prison that holds suspected terrorists, a senior administration official said today.

Dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees have abandoned a hunger strike, lowering the number of inmates refusing food to 18, the US military says.

The British Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, today denied there was any political interference in the decision by prosecutors in Northern Ireland to drop charges against three men accused of spying at Stormont.

The British government was today challenged to explain a three and a half year delay in seeking the extradition of a key suspect in a Northern Ireland spy scandal.

Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain will hold crisis talks with Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams today following the unmasking of a trusted aide to the West Belfast MP as a British spy.

The British government was tonight challenged to launch a public inquiry into the Stormontgate affair after a top Republican official, who admitted he was a British agent, said the matter had been “a scam and a fiction” invented by UK intelligence.

A top republican was thrown out of Sinn Féin tonight after its leader Gerry Adams alleged he was working as a British agent.

THREE British servicemen are to stand trial for the war crime of inhuman treatment of detainees in Iraq under the International Criminal Court Act 2001, the British attorney general Lord Goldsmith announced last night.

TONY BLAIR yesterday mounted an impassioned defence of his decision to take Britain to war with Iraq in the face of fresh disclosures about the build up to the conflict.

ENOCH POWELL came up with some nasty stuff during his long political career. But there were a few diamonds on the dungheap. The best was his observation that all political careers end in failure.

TONY BLAIR defied his critics on Iraq yesterday and published controversial legal advice from Attorney General Lord Goldsmith in full.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair was last night under sustained attack over the invasion of Iraq following fresh claims that the Attorney General had warned that the war could be illegal.

THE British attorney-general did not give Tony Blair a separate legal opinion on the legality of the war, Britain’s top civil servant indicated yesterday.

Soham murderer Ian Huntley’s former girlfriend Maxine Carr is applying today for an indefinite order protecting her new identity.

Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza is set to be charged under the UK's Terrorism Act, it was revealed tonight.

A murder victim’s mother today revealed her dread of the frenzied killer seeking revenge after helping get him locked up for at least five more years.

A former health board chief and a solicitor were among six Northern Ireland judicial appointments today.

WITH clarity of voice and affable manner, Lord Butler of Brockwell delivered his damning verdict on the failings of intelligence over Iraq.

The long-awaited Butler Report into intelligence failings in the run-up to war in Iraq was being published in the UK today, amid fevered speculation in Westminster over whether the finger of blame will be pointed at British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

APPEAL court judges in the North yesterday overturned a controversial ruling that the Real IRA was not an illegal organisation.

Appeal court judges in the North today overturned a controversial ruling that the Real IRA was not an illegal terrorist organisation.