Tower Hamlets Council could scrap its weekly East End Life publication which has previously come under fire for its high cost to tax payers.

Menacing gangs backing President Hosni Mubarak attacked journalists and human rights activists as Egypt's crisis took an ugly turn.

In much of the world Muhammad Yunus is known as the genial pioneer of microcredit and the winner of the 2006 Nobel peace prize. Yet in his native Bangladesh Mr Yunus’s reputation is under attack. His supporters fear that the ...