Ed Miliband is to launch a major review of Labour Party policy by telling his MPs the party has "lost its way".

Mike Hussey and Brad Haddin give Australia the lead as the hosts frustrate England's hard-working bowlers in an absorbing start to day three of the first Ashes Test.

President Hamid Karzai's chief of staff blames UK authorities for bringing a fake Taliban commander into a sensitive meeting with Afghan officials.

Hundreds of Brazilian soldiers have been deployed to a poor area of Rio de Janeiro as part of operations to tackle a wave of gang violence.

The coalition formed by the Tories and the Lib Dems should continue after the next general election, Sir John Major says.

Catholic former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair takes on atheist columnist Christopher Hitchens in a TV debate in Canada for and against religion.

A Somali-born US teenager is arrested in the state of Oregon after allegedly plotting to bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

England face a battle to save the first Test after Mike Hussey and Brad Haddin produce one of the all-time great Ashes partnerships to put Australia in a commanding position after three days in Brisbane.