By Sue Lawley PUBLISHED: 12:55 EST, 23 December 2012 | UPDATED: 12:55 EST, 23 December 2012 I suspect I am not alone in wondering what it would be like to

Police in India's capital usedtear gas and water cannons for a second day Sunday in a high-security zone to break up protests by thousands of

The wettest and most miserable festive weather in living memory continued with renewed downfalls in the South-West last night. The rain expected to spread over

Met Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe defended his handling of the Andrew Mitchell "plebgate" row after breaking off from his holiday to be briefed on progress. Mr

Met Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe defended his handling of the Andrew Mitchell "plebgate" row after breaking off from his holiday to be briefed on progress. Mr

Police in Swaziland will arrest women who wear mini-skirts - and they say a law dating from 1889 allows them to do it. And, it will

Less than three months that the six-storey building belonging to Melcom at Achimota in Accra collapsed and killed 18 people, another Melcom shop at Agona

Mr Promise Kumako, Chief Executive Officer of the Global Eye Investigation Services, has stressed the need for Ghana to beef up her surveillance capacities to

KT Hammond The Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa, K.T Hammond says remarks made by Dr. Wereko Brobbey on NPP's decision to contest the outcome of

Odartey Lamptey Former Ghana international Nii Odartey Lamptey has told Joy Sports that local coaches, especially former national players, lack support from football administrators. The FIFA

By Dan Ripley PUBLISHED: 23:00 EST, 22 December 2012 | UPDATED: 08:01 EST, 23 December 2012 Follow Sportsmail's coverage of the Barclays Premier League as Swansea host Manchester United at

Troops on tour in Afghanistan are getting into the festive spirit with a bit of help from Father Christmas and his sidekick Frosty the Snowman.

Schools in England will be banned from collecting pupils' biometric data without consent, the Department for Education (DfE) has said. From September schools will have to

Strictly Come Dancing drew almost half the TV audience on Saturday night as ratings for the final were up on the previous year – and

By Mike Dawes PUBLISHED: 11:36 EST, 23 December 2012 | UPDATED: 11:36 EST, 23 December 2012 England's Dean Winstanley today hit a nine-dart finish in his second round clash with

Thousands of clients at the failed broker MF Global could finally get their money back after administrators settled a long-running legal dispute. KPMG, which is

The Justice Collective’s version of The Hollies classic, “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother”, sold 269,000 copies, pushing it ahead of its Simon Cowell-backed rival

In many quarters bankers are public enemy number one: a loathed bunch of self-interested schemers who conspired to crash the world economy in pursuit of

It is now almost nine months since the Government-commissioned investigation led by former Legal & General boss Tim Breedon warned that business was facing a

On the day many retailers will pay their final rent instalment of 2012, the insolvency specialist Begbies Traynor will warn that next year is likely