Dalai Lama warns exiles against mounting a separatist movement against Beijing

Former police commander wanted for human rights abuses shoots himself in head while camera rolls

The Dalai Lama today warned Tibetan exiles against mounting a separatist movement against Beijing after a younger generation issued calls to break off talks with China and pursue complete independence or self-determination

Islamic council issues edict prohibiting people indulging in the exercise, fearing Hindu roots could corrupt them

Once plant is inaugurated it will generate 20MW of electricity, enough to power 11,000 homes

Britain among worst property performers as global house prices plummet in past three months

Foreign secretary explicitly states British-backed EU and UN sanctions 'are not an attempt at regime change'

Hunt on for archeological fraudster who defaced fragments of third century pottery with graffiti

YouTube celebrates those whose lives have been transformed by access to a computer

UK security services deny prior knowledge of 'unilateral' American attack on British terrorist suspect

US increases clandestine 'drone' attacks on militants in Pakistan but risks more civilian deaths

BBC executives to give evidence surrounding the murder of a journalist on assignment in Somalia

Marcel Berlins: Were Chagos Islanders denied their right by the voting vagaries of our highest court?

Charlie Brooker: It's great being a shambles. You lurch from one crisis point to the next, constantly challenged by your own ineptitude

Opinion, Emily Bell: At last, the BBC has understood how to turn interactivism to its advantage

On the press, Peter Wilby asks, how many journalists do you need to bring out a newspaper?

California Conservation Corps members placed sandbags and cleaned out culverts and spillways to handle runoff in Yorba Linda, Orange County southeast of Los Angeles. Also, portable concrete barriers were lined up below the denuded hillsides of Chino Hills State Park

The unprecedented increase in number of U.S. residents relying on food stamps is the result of more Americans becoming jobless and the non-stop upward spiral of food prices.

Under the plan, the Fed will launch a program by the yearend in which it will purchase up to $500 billion or securities backed by mortgages guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It will also buy up to $100

By gender, there was significant decline in lung, prostate and colorectal cancer among males, while breast and colorectal cancer among females was noticeable.