Unemployment in Spain has risen to nearly 25 percent, a day after a credit ratings agency downgraded the country's debt rating and warned it faced an uphill battle to get a grip on its finances.

Two men who sent parcel bombs to Celtic manager and high-profile fans have been jailed for five years each.

Culture Secretary will hand over correspondence with his special adviser Adam Smith relating to News Corp's BSkyB takeover bid.

James Dawson becomes first man to be shortlisted for the Queen of Teen fiction award.

A beauty pageant to crown Miss Fiji has been beset by controversy amid criticisms the winner is not "native" enough and should have a "buiniga", the naturally-fuzzy hairstyle of the Pacific island nation.

Chen Guangcheng gained worldwide acclaim for exposing abuses under China's draconian family planning policy.

Musician Bob Dylan, who became a figurehead of the US civil rights and anti-war movement of the 1960s, is to be awarded for his services to the United States with America's highest civilian honour - the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Seminars staged to help teachers boost pupils' exam results to be scrapped after undercover investigation by The Telegraph.

A US military judge refused on Thursday to throw out a charge that Bradley Manning aided al-Qaeda by allegedly leaking thousands of files to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.

Ken Livingstone has said that his likening a Jewish journalist to a concentration camp guard caused "a huge fuss over nothing" and attacked the Jewish community for being "obsessive" about his relationship with the extremist preacher, Yusuf al-Qaradawi.