A girl who was abducted at the age of 14 was forced to work as a sex slave. This picture is posed by model A girl who was abducted at the age of 14 and forced to work as a sex slave was yesterday praised for giving evidence which saw her abusers jailed. The privately-educated teenager was picked up and plied with vodka and drugs, passed around groups of older men for sex and then forced to work as... 

The rise in forced marriages — estimated to be in the region of 10,000 every year, of which 20 percent involve male victims — is yet more evidence that Third World culture has been imported into Britain along with Third World immigrants. In a disturbing display of the simple truth that a culture is merely the reflection of a people, and that cultures change when the population changes, the... 

'Tanorexic': Mrs Cobb with, from left, Alfie, Jack, Harry and Archie She once used sunbeds up to five times a week because she thought her tan ‘made her look healthy’. But Joanne Cobb’s obsession with having a golden glow has left her facing a possible death sentence. She has found herself battling nodular melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, and has had to accept... 

The European Union should push world powers to bring in a global levy on banks to “make those who caused the crisis pay,”Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. EU leaders are keen not to repeat the experience of the last two years, when they had to bail out banks with public funds to prevent the financial crisis from worsening. The intervention left them with huge deficits,... 

Outspoken: Prince Charles speaks to Islamic studies scholars at Oxford. He argued that man's destruction of the world was particularly contrary to Islam Prince Charles yesterday urged the world to follow Islamic ‘spiritual principles’ in order to protect the environment. In an hour-long speech, the heir to the throne argued that man’s destruction of the world was contrary to the... 

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaks at the Open University in Milton Keynes, England Monday, June, 7, 2010. Cameron said the pain of cutting Britain's national deficit will be worse than previously feared and will affect everyone in the country. Laying out the reasons for squeezing spending, Cameron said the nation cannot avoid cutting a deficit which rose to 156 billion pounds ($225... 

Aid Ships Israeli authorities have warned that they would block a contingent of aid ships carrying construction materials and humanitarian supplies for the people of Gaza. “Ships that make their own way to Gaza don’t do anything to help the people there,” Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, claimed on Tuesday. Israeli authorities said the cargo vessels would... 

The sick woman of Europe: UK survival rates are not improving as fast as they are elsewhere Women are more likely to die early in Britain than in virtually every other western European country. It’s an astonishing fact for a place which has always prided itself in the skill of its clinicians and world-leading research. Yet over the past 40 years there has been an astounding downward spiral in... 

Eyes everywhere: One of Google's Street View cars, which have collected snippets of people's online activities Google was rapped by the privacy watchdog yesterday after it admitted spying on the internet habits of Britons ‘by mistake’. In an astonishing invasion of privacy, Google’s Street View cars – which have roamed the UK in the last two years taking pictures of... 

Muslim scandal in UK! A Muslim man who carried out a horrific acid attack on another Muslim man of 25-year-old over his intimate relationship with a married woman was facing a life sentence today. Awais Akram was left severely disfigured after he was targeted in revenge for his liaison with businesswoman Sadia Khatoon, whom he met on Facebook. When her husband and family found out, they got Ms Khatoon,... 

Inspectors from Westminster City Council photographed this cockroach eating a chip in the Leicester Square branch of KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) was ordered to pay out almost £19,000 today after a cockroach was found eating a chip in one of the busiest branches in Britain. The insect was seen on a food dispensing counter near takeaway boxes and tongs used to serve chicken by an environmental... 

Funded by the taxpayer: Mashal Almansour, 38, at Cale Green Nursing Home, Stockport, fears that if he's deported back to Jordan he'll die within weeks An illegal immigrant and convicted fraudster is fighting deportation to the Middle East because he claims it infringes his human rights as he needs regular dialysis for kidney failure. And in a move that critics said underlined the chaos of Britain’s... 

Economic Crash The situation of the United Kingdom in fiscal terms is in fact worse than the situation of Greece. That may come as a surprise to you, but if you look at the most recent paper on the subject published by the Bank for International Settlements, it is very clear. The trajectory of U.K. public debt over the next 30 years, absent a major change of policy, will take it to a mind-blowing 500%... 

The Labour government has allowed more than 500 suspected war criminals to live in Britain, an act of criminal irresponsibility that reflects its abject failure where matters of public safety and morality are concerned. The human rights group, Aegis Trust, which campaigns against genocide and crimes against humanity, obtained figures from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Genocide Prevention which... 

A gang who kidnapped and tortured a schoolboy by burning him with a hot iron to gain a £20,000 ransom have been jailed for a total of 40 years it was confirmed today. The 16-year-old had boiling water poured over his legs during the five-hour ordeal in a bid to blackmail his family as part of a ‘drugs debt’. Shaheed Rahman and Syed Ahmed, both 24, admitted conspiring to kidnap the boy...