Unite! A woman holds a flag during a protest against the global financial system outside St Paul's Cathedral. Protesters inspired by the growing ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement in the U.S have today taken over the City of London. Thousands have descended on the area known as the Square Mile – under the banner ‘Occupy the Stock Exchange’ – for a ‘peaceful... 

Traditional words ‘father’ and ‘mother’ will be replaced with official terms Parent 1 and Parent 2 in Britain reported the BBC and the Daily Mail. The terms will be used in official documents. The authorities decided to make such a “politically correct” move to accommodate same-sex couples. Experts are sure, though, that the matter is not about the requirements... 

Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England The world is facing the worst financial crisis since at least the 1930s “if not ever”, the Governor of the Bank of England said last night. Sir Mervyn King was speaking after the decision by the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee to put £75billion of newly created money into the economy in a desperate effort to stave off a new credit crisis and a UK... 

The Home Secretary’s plan to retain the DNA of people charged but then cleared of offences may breach human rights law, a group of MPs and peers have said. A “catch-all” discretionary power to allow police to hold the DNA of innocent people indefinitely for reasons of “national security” should also be scrapped, the Joint Committee on Human Rights [JCHR] said. Its report on the Protection... 

London’s elite real estate reached another maximum level in September. The average price on a real estate object in the British capital hit the level of 3.968 million pounds sterling. This is 4.5% higher than before the crisis in March 2008. Houses and apartments in London became 11.4% more expensive within a year. In comparison with March 2009, the prices have grown by 37.2%. London remains... 

Britain’s Indian Summer is set to be abruptly interrupted as Hurricane Ophelia’s remnants bring four days of gales and torrential rains across the country. The hurricane, currently affecting the United States, is expected to hit with 65mph gusts, potentially rivaling the strength of Hurricane Katia that devastated parts of Britain last month. Jonathan Powell, a senior forecaster at Positive... 

The UK is facing the possibility of an additional £2.5 billion annual benefits bill for EU migrants as the European Commission accuses the country of violating EU laws by restricting foreigners’ access to the welfare system. Eurocrats have issued a “reasoned opinion,” giving the UK a two-month deadline to align its legislation with EU law or face court action. The European Commission... 

Two experienced Lancashire social workers say that in their estimation there are 20,000 bigamous or polygamous unions in the UK. Ghulam is a taxi driver who lives in Blackburn, a once-booming textile town in Lancashire. He has a terrace house near his local mosque (one of 53 in the area), a silver Nissan car and a very complex private life. For he has so many children that he struggles to remember... 

A 24-year-old Nigerian rapist has successfully avoided deportation from the UK after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that expelling him would violate his right to family life. Despite not having a partner or children, the court ordered the British government to allow him to stay and cover £3,500 of his legal bills. The rapist, identified only as AA, had been convicted at the age of... 

All smiles: But Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (left) has told David Cameron (right) that he will never hand over the prime suspect for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. David Cameron was told last night Russia will ‘never’ hand over the prime suspect for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. The Prime Minister – making the first visit by a British leader to Moscow for six years... 

The Prince said if the world carries on 'business as usual' then the human race itself could be wiped out. Mankind faces extinction, the Prince of Wales has warned, unless humans transform our lifestyles to stop mass consumption, run away climate change and destruction of wildlife. In his first speech as the new President of the Worldwide Wildlife Fund (WWF) UK, Prince Charles suggested ‘surviving... 

Torn apart: The parents, left and right, with six of their children who they fear will be taken away from them. Although it sounds like a story from the Twilight Zone, it looks like in England it’s illegal to be fat. Four obese children are on the brink of being permanently removed from their family by social workers after their parents failed to bring their weight under control. In the first... 

Cheated death: Lucy on the day she came off life-support. A teenager who came out of a coma after a priest put holy water on her head says she owes her life to a miracle. Lucy Hussey-Bergonzi was expected to die after she collapsed from a brain haemorrhage. Her parents called in a Catholic priest to baptise her as they prayed and prepared to say their goodbyes. But as the water touched Lucy’s skin,... 

Russian senator blames failure of multiculturalism for UK riots. The death of multicultural society and the economic crisis are to blame for the riots that have convulsed London and other British cities this week, head of the Russian upper house’s international affairs committee Mikhail Margelov said on Wednesday. “I think the events occurring in the English cities have at least two reasons.... 

Social networking sites have fallen victim to the British Prime Minister’s irk after the worst unrest in a generation, as defined by UK authorities, rocked the country. Prime Minister David Cameron made a statement to the parliament on Thursday warning to unleash a clampdown on social media including social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Research in Motion (Rim), the maker of...