addressbook spamming

Currently a victim receives a mail from a "friend". Upon clicking the link, the victims address book is uploaded and all the addresses in the victims address book now in turn receive an email as if from the...

More than half of patients are waiting two days to be seen

Patients are having to wait more than 48 hours to see a GP and often take time off work when they do because appointments are hard to get and at inconvenient times, a new report warns. Research by the Patients...

Bolshoi ballet was a 'giant brothel' claims former dancer

A former Bolshoi ballet dancer has called the acclaimed company a “giant brothel”. Adding to the theatre’s recent bad press, Anastasia Volochkova claimed that female dancers were forced to sleep with wealthy...

Gillard: 'Leadership settled' as Rudd shuns vote

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard declared the Labor party leadership conclusively settled, after Kevin Rudd shunned a party vote. Ms Gillard called the ballot after a senior MP said the debate over who...

Girls Aloud confirm split after last night of UK tour

Girls Aloud have announced they are splitting up following the last night of their 10-year celebration tour. A tweet from the band's official account on Wednesday night said: "We have now come to the end of our...

George Osborne's : 2013 Budget

The chancellor extended the 1% public sector pay cap by one year to 2015/16 but Service personnel to be exempt from public sector 1% pay rise cap. He used his Budget to cut corporation tax by 1% to 20%, and...

Police Commissioner Simmonds £65K appointments cause uproar

Northamptonshire Police Commissioner Adam Simmonds has announced his three temporary assistant commissioners have all been given £65,000-a-year permanent jobs. The appointment of Ms Buckle, who acted as Mr...

Teachers to go on strike from June over pay, pensions & workload

Hundreds of thousands of teachers will hold a series of strikes in a continuing row over pay, pensions and workload. Schools across England and Wales are likely to be affected by the walkouts which will begin in...

Politicians agree deal but newspapers refuse regulation sign up

Britain’s largest newspaper groups are on a collision course with the Government over press regulation, after last night signalling their anger at the imposition of “several deeply contentious” issues in a...

Cyprus Delays Vote on Bailout Plan

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Leaders in Cyprus and Brussels scrambled Monday to contain the fallout from an unprecedented effort to force ordinary bank depositors in this crisis-hit nation to pay for part of an...

George Osborne's boring, steady as she goes budget

On Wednesday, the chancellor must take the opportunity to respond to the squeeze on living standards facing families, not only because it may help his declining popularity but because it is vital to the...

David Bowie first number one in 20 years

David Bowie's first album in a decade has become the fastest-selling of the year, hitting the number one spot in its first week. The Next Day is the 66-year-old's first number one since 1993's Black Tie White...

Housing benefit change protests held

Protests have been staged in a series of cities against government plans to cut housing benefit for those considered to have too much space. Protests against the plan - labelled the "bedroom tax" by Labour - have...

Unearthed after seven centuries the 'Black Death' pit skeletons

For seven centuries they have lain beneath the feet of commuters in one of the busiest parts of central London. Thirteen skeletons, lying in two neat rows, 2.4m beneath a road in Farringdon, have been unearthed by...

MP Eric Joyce arrested after late-night brawl at House of Commons

The independent MP Eric Joyce was arrested last night when a fight broke out at a parliamentary bar. More than a dozen officers were called after the fracas involving Mr Joyce at Westminster's Sports and Social...