A Conservative councillor has been suspended after complaining that the party's wouldbe MPs do not have "normal" English names.

Floodhit communities in Cumbria were last night coming to terms with the devastation wreaked by a "biblical" deluge and bracing themselves for further rain to ... more

Private equity giant Blackstone is gambling on an audacious eleventh hour intervention in the debt restructuring at Gala Coral.

Adolf Hitler was "the German Mussolini" who was "a very cunning demagogue" according to a handwritten report from a French spy in 1924.

A Las Vegas gambler who lost 112 million £67 million in a year is suing the owner of Caesars Palace claiming casino staff "milked" him ... more

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's romantic novel whose thinly disguised lovers are modelled on himself and Diana Princess of Wales has turned into a literary flop.