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The Sydney Morning Herald, 24.04.13 06:50 UTC

Buttrose declined offers to run from 'both sides'

Australian of the year Ita Buttrose has revealed both major parties invited her to join them but she decided she did not want to become a politician. Ms Buttrose told the National Press Club on ...


Daily Mail, 24.04.13 04:34 UTC

Behind most great women is a resentful husband... Dennis Thatcher, found his wife's success hard to deal with. The need to strive and achieve is inbuilt into most men's DNA

PUBLISHED: 21:54 GMT, 23 April 2013 | UPDATED: 21:54 GMT, 23 April 2013 Denis was always portrayed as the ideal consort for a female politician. Yet it turns out he found it much more difficult than ...


Telegraph, 23.04.13 23:35 UTC

Charges against ricin letter suspect dropped

A US man accused of sending letters laced with the poison ricin to Barack Obama and a US senator has had the charges against him dismissed by a judge.


BBC Business, 23.04.13 23:11 UTC

German football star Uli Hoeness' own goal on tax

He was a star forward in the football team which won the World Cup in 1974 and off the field, he's been almost as influential, presiding over the relentless - and continuing - rise of Bayern Munich to greatness.


Seattle Times, 23.04.13 18:56 UTC

Car bomb kills 4 in Pakistan, another defused

A car bomb aimed at a Pakistani Shiite politician missed him but killed four other people Tuesday, hours after police defused an explosives-laden vehicle near the house where ex-leader Pervez Musharraf is being held, in the latest signs of simmering unrest in the country.


Daily Mail, 23.04.13 18:22 UTC

Thatcher would join UKIP, Farage claims as he insists he was dragged to a Strasbourg strip club by a French presidential candidate

PUBLISHED: 15:38 GMT, 23 April 2013 | UPDATED: 16:19 GMT, 23 April 2013 A young Margaret Thatcher today would reject the Tories to join the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage claimed. He also ...


Telegraph, 23.04.13 06:36 UTC

Margaret Thatcher: Sir Denis 'contemplated divorce' after he suffered a nervous breakdown in 1960s

He was the seemingly unshakeable foundation on which all of her achievements were built, but Baroness Thatcher s husband Sir Denis may have contemplated divorcing her after he suffered a nervous breakdown, according to the authorised biography of the former prime minister.


Telegraph, 22.04.13 15:32 UTC

Chris Huhne offers to pay a quarter of legal costs for points swapping case

Chris Huhne, the jailed former energy secretary has offered to pay less than a quarter of the costs incurred by the taxpayer in bringing him to justice, a court heard today.


Telegraph, 22.04.13 13:47 UTC

Chris Huhne facing £100,000 legal bill

Disgraced former energy secretary Chris Huhne is facing a claim for more than £100,000 in prosecution costs, a court has heard.


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