Nick Clegg today announced removal of legislation barring those with mental health problems from being MPs, telling Radio 5 Live it was an “old fashioned approach”. “Today we’re announcing we’re going to remove the law that means if you’re a politician or an MP and you suffer from a mental health problem for more than six months you are disqualified from standing... 

Second sun may appear at any moment. Scientists claim that Betelgeuse, a star 640 light years away from Earth, is going to explode soon. Nikolai Chugai, head of the department of Variable Stars and Astronomical Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Astronomy shares his views with RIA Novosti’s Samir Shakhbaz, on possible threats and impact this star may cause to our planet. Samir... 

A clergyman lights candles at the site of the bomb blast at Domodedovo airport, near Moscow, Russia. Attacker who killed 35 is 20-year-old man from troubled Caucasus region. Russian investigators have said they now know the identity of the suicide bomber who claimed the lives of 35 people in an attack on Moscow’s busiest airport last Monday. The attacker is a 20-year-old man from the unsettled... 

According to Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, the Muslim population in Spain will increase by around 82% by 2030. Currently, Muslims make up just over 1 million of the country’s population, which is expected to increase to about 1.9 million in the next two decades. Immigration is cited as the main reason behind the increase, as just this past year Muslims made up 13% of all newly arrived... 

Protestors call on Hungarian govt to repeal media law, ask premier to return to dissident past. Several thousand people have protested Hungary’s new media law and urged Prime Minister Viktor Orban to repeal or amend it. The law greatly expands the state’s power to monitor and penalize private news outlets. There are concerns it will be used against media critical of Orban’s centre-right... 

The mood of revolt has spread beyond the Arab world to the Balkans. The Albanian opposition gearing up for another anti-government protest today and the police warning of a high risk of violence. The opposition Socialist Party said the rally was aimed at honouring the three victims of violent clashes in last week’s anti-government demonstration. Protesters have been calling on the government... 

Petrol price relief? Stephen Voller, chief executive of Cella Energy said he is confident the new fuel will work in existing cars. Artificial petrol that costs 19p per litre could be on forecourts in as little as three years. British scientists are refining the recipe for a hydrogen-based fuel that will run in existing cars and engines at the fraction of the cost of conventional petrol. With hydrogen... 

Pointed: The Prime Minister said 'unsustainable levels of public spending and immigration' were among the problems inherited by the Coalition. David Cameron today identified immigration as being partly responsible for the economic crisis gripping the country. The Prime Minister said ‘unsustainable levels of public spending and immigration’ were among the problems inherited by the... 

Four people have been killed and three more wounded and hospitalised in the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt as a result of a car bomb explosion. An official of the Dagestani Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass on Thursday that the “incident took place on Wednesday at 22:10 MSK on the 739th kilometre of the Kavkaz federal highway at the exit from Khasavyurt.” According to the source, an unknown man parked... 

Food crisis: A leading Government think tank has warned scaremongering over GM farming is no longer acceptable. The cost of food will soar by 50 per cent over the next few decades as the world becomes racked by famine, mass migrations and riots, experts have warned. The increase will be triggered by the exploding world population, rising cost of fuel and increased competition for water, according to... 

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has said that it has been “at least bewildered” by the release of a book by a former Chechen militant Ilyas Akhmadov in the US. The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that Ilyas Akhmadov “passing himself off as the Foreign Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria is in fact a former militant who served as an aide for the international terrorist [Shamil] Basayev.”... 

Lenin's waxy corpse remains a popular tourist attraction and is regularly treated with a special cocktail of chemicals to stop it from degrading. Two-thirds of Russians want Vladimir Lenin to be removed from his Red Square mausoleum in central Moscow, a new poll has shown. The poll, organised by Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party, comes after a senior figure in the party sparked... 

Moscow’s Domodedovo airport – the busiest in the Russian capital – has been rocked by an explosion that has reportedly killed 31 people. Suspicion has fallen on the “Caucasus Emirate”, an Islamist separatist movement in Chechnya. More than 100 more are thought to have been injured in the blast, which reports suggest may have been the work of a suicide bomber. Russia’s chief... 

In a recent statistical revelation, two-thirds of the UK’s freshly minted jobs found themselves in the hands of individuals born outside the country. This disclosure coincided with a bleak milestone, marking Britain’s unemployment at 2.5 million, including a staggering 951,000 individuals aged 16 to 24. Against the backdrop of rising unemployment fueled by public sector job cuts, an examination... 

The EU Commission recently distributed millions of 2011 diaries to schools, sparking controversy and accusations of bias. Filled with disdain and envy, critics argue that the European Union’s leadership shares an unsettling alignment with Islamic extremists, both seemingly determined to undermine Western civilization. The ideological clash centers on the EU’s perceived contempt for Christian...