Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum claimed the momentum a day after his shocking sweep of nominating contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri that dealt a blow to front-runner Mitt Romney.
Ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne suffered “mental harm and distress” after his phone messages were hacked by the News of the World, the High Court was told.
Harry Redknapp yesterday welcomed the final whistle on his bung accusation “nightmare” after his acquittal for tax fraud cleared the way for him to land the top job in English football.
The outcome of any talks on ending the bloodshed in Syria must not be predetermined, said Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, sticking to Moscow’s opposition to Western and Arab pressure for President Bashar al-Assad to cede power.
A man found guilty of sending a “menacing tweet” was the victim of a legal “steamroller” that threatened to make the law look silly, it was argued at the High Court.
Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock and three other directors will step down as the struggling company ploughs ahead with an internal overhaul, including discussions on dealing with its stakes in China’s Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan.
A Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone has been sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole.
The worst February cold spell Europe has seen in decades may last until the end of the month, leading meteorologists said, raising the prospect of further deaths and an extended spike in European spot gas prices.
Argentina’s president accused Britain of “militarising the South Atlantic” and said she would complain to the UN, as tension rises ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war.
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