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Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have converted to Christianity before his death ten years ago, according to a prominent Christian writer and speaker. Dr RT Kendall told Premier Christianity magazine of how he struck up an unlikely friendship with

Police forces in Britain are “struggling to cope” thanks to high levels of immigration, one of the country’s most senior police officers has warned. Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police, said that officers face difficult challenges due to

The Court of Auditors’ report on the EU’s accounts for 2013 has been published this morning and provides further bad news for Brussels. According to The Telegraph, £5.5 billion of the EU budget last year was misspent because of controls

Syrian rebels who had been trained and armed by the United States defected to the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria over the weekend and surrendered their weapons, according to various reports. The moderate Syrian rebels who were stormed by the al-Qaeda

With control of congress, Republicans could push to lower taxes and repeal the Affordable Care Act, but President Obama has the veto. Instead, a new GOP majority could launch an all-out assault on federal abuses of regulatory powers to defend

During a recent visit to London, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri advocated for an expansion of the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State (ISIL/ISIS) to confront extremists causing havoc in North Africa, such as the Muslim Brotherhood.  According to The Telegraph, Egypt

The Daily Telegraph has revealed that the Chancellor of the Exchequer failed to tell David Cameron about the £1.7bn bill which the European Commission demanded of Britain for having a growing economy. The Prime Minister issued a strong message to

An apparent attempt by Islamic State militants to kidnap a Syrian rebel leader within Turkey has been foiled, raising questions about Turkey’s ability to stop militants operating within its borders. The Telegraph reports that Abu Issa, who leads rebel group

Panic has swept through a luxury cruise liner following the discovery on board of a laboratory worker who handled clinical samples from Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who was the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. The

An 80-foot green inflatable sculpture that looked like a sex toy was displayed at the Place Vendome in Paris this week before it was deflated by vandals. The artwork was supposed to have been part of the FIAC Art Fair,

During today’s segment of The View, co-host Rosie O’Donnell asked police to search John Grisham’s computer for child pornography after he defended curious men who might stumble upon inappropriate videos of children. O’Donnell said she was “horrified” and questioned his

It hasn’t been the easiest few months for David Cameron: he lost a national election to a party he dismissed as ‘fruitcakes, loonies and closest racists’ quickly followed by the departure of two of his popular MPs to the same

British police have foiled several terror attacks and arrested hundreds of suspects so far this year, a counter-terror chief has said. Mark Rowley, one of Britain’s most senior anti-terror officers, has said that police are dealing with an “exceptionally high”

American entertainment network E! has denied that its new show ‘The Royals’ is designed to mock Britain’s royal family. The show, which follows the exploits of a fictionalised royal family and stars Elizabeth Hurley as the conniving Queen Helena, William

There is a fresh bout of fear over the economies which form the eurozone area following the announcement of growth statistics by the International Monetary Fund. At its annual meeting in Washington the talk was of concern that the area

The government of Qatar has a senior al-Qaeda operative on its payroll, despite the United States’ designation of the individual as a terrorist, The Telegraph reports. In his role at Qatar’s Ministry of Interior, Salim Hasan Khalifa Rashid al-Kuwari has allegedly

Russia’s justice ministry has applied to the country’s supreme court to “liquidate” Memorial, Russia’s leading human rights organisation. The Nobel Peace Prize winning organisation has been a thorn in the side of the Kremlin for many years thanks to its

UPDATE: Madrid authorities have confirmed the dog has been euthanized. Excalibur is a 12-year-old rescue dog who currently resides in an apartment in Madrid. His owner, María Teresa Romero Ramos, is the first person known to have contracted Ebola outside of

The Board of Deputies of British Jews is demanding an investigation into why a Surrey vicar travelled to Tehran, Iran, to speak at a conference described by the Board as an “anti-Semitic hate fest”. Rev Dr Stephen Sizer has attracted

You’d be forgiven for not having scoured the latest release from the Margaret Thatcher Archives today – but the Telegraph has, noting 10 interesting points about the newest tranch of documents being distributed, from 1984. But one nugget that seems to

Dr Brooke Magnanti, whom we recently exposed both for sockpuppeting to smear other female writers and plagiarising Wikipedia in the Telegraph, has claimed she worked as a prostitute in London for eighteen months between 2003 and 2004.  She wrote about this

The Islamic State’s goal of eradicating Christianity from its ancient home in northern Iraq is nearly complete, report Christian officials remaining in the area. According to one Vicar, last week marked the first time in millennia that Christians did not

On Saturday, we reported that journalist and former sex worker Brooke Magnanti, who shot to fame under the pen name Belle de Jour, had been accused of sockpuppeting by London barrister Anya Palmer. Now allegations have surfaced that Magnanti plagiarised

DONCASTER, United Kingdom — There’s a phrase that many southern, English, usually London-types proffer when discussing trips to places like Sheffield, Rotherham, Manchester – even sometimes Birmingham. “It’s grim up north,” they say, usually in a tongue-in-cheek manner, but with

There is a chapter in Dickens’ festive classic, A Christmas Carol, where Ebenezer Scrooge witnesses a harrowing scene. Gifted with foresight by his companion, the ‘Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come’, the scene features two old hags and an undertaker

Germany’s Eurosceptic Party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), has come third in a nationwide poll for the first time, making it the leading opposition party in Germany, the Telegraph has reported. The party is continuing to build on success after taking

This article originally appeared in The Telegraph: Few outsiders have noticed, but radical Islamists now control Libya’s capital. These militias stormed Tripoli last month, forcing the official government to flee and hastening the country’s collapse into a failed state. Moreover,

South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of “culpable homicide” at court in Pretoria. The olympic and paralympic sprinter had been accused of killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day last year when he shot her four

In scenes described by ferry operators as “not unusual”, dozens of illegal immigrants broke through security fencing and dodged gun wielding policemen in a bid to board Britain-bound cross-channel ferries at the French port of Calais last night. The immigrants

It has scarcely been a week since former Tory MP Douglas Carswell jumped ship to UKIP, but Britain’s entrenched political classes have already turned on him – and in one of the nastiness ways you can imagine. Carswell, who is

New figures have revealed that every Scottish person would be up to £480 worse off under Alex Salmond’s independence plans, following an assessment of declining oil revenues and that fact that the average Scot woul have to pay more tax

Children at a Birmingham school that was at the centre of Britain’s “trojan horse” scandal were shown a jihadist propaganda video in the classroom. The Telegraph reports that Ian Kershaw, who conducted an investigation for Birmingham City Council into the

The Telegraph’s Dan Hodges, sometimes notionally on the left, sometimes drastically on the left, has today used his newspaper column to call for a public inquiry into why Muslims in Britain are failing to integrate – but the fault is apparently

The Christian faith is being pushed out of public life, former attorney general Rt Hon Dominic Grieve has said, adding “Clearly it happens at a level of local power… In my view it’s very undesirable.” In an interview with The

Thousands of illegal immigrants are disappearing into the UK every year, raising serious questions over how well Britain can defend itself against jihadists entering the country. According to Home Office data obtained by the Sunday Telegraph, there has been a