JACK DOYLE: The Cabinet Room in No 10 has two clocks. The more prominent one sits on a mantelpiece behind the Prime Minister's chair. The other was installed on the table opposite.

JACK DOYLE: Rain's predicted for Thursday, and there's the chance of snow in Scotland. This could mean older, less mobile, Tory voters stay at home.

I have covered the past five British general elections, writes QUENTON LETTS, but Trump and Clinton have shown me that American elections make a British visitor feel very alien.

Senate Democrats claim to have evidence Russians funneled money through the National Rifle Association to help elect Trump, using Maria Butina (left), a Russian gun rights activist.

Following Trump's demand that the DOJ investigate his allegation that the Obama administration's FBI 'infiltrated or surveilled' his 2016 campaign, the agency said it will formally probe those claims.

An impromptu conversation at a cocktail party could be behind the assertion from former Trump aide Michael Caputo that there was another informant sniffing around the campaign.

Jeff Sessions was speaking ahead of the inspector general's report on the Clinton email investigation, which is expected to blame 'insubordinate' James Comey.

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said Manafort's advance age, and the hefty sentences he could face from a U.S. federal judge, mean he could be behind bars for the rest of his life.

Democrats and Republicans agree presidents should not pardon themselves and majorities of Americans in both parties believe Congress should impeach that president, poll finds.

Russian pop star Emin Agalarov admits he was the force behind the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. but he denies he was trying to influence the election for Donald Trump.

News of the indictments was announced at the Justice Department in Washington, DC during a press conference held by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

President Vladimir Putin has offered to have 12 Russians spies accused of interfering in the presidential election interrogated but in Russia and by Russians.

The GRU - Russia's 'Main Intelligence Directorate' - was founded in 1918 after Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution.

Cohen revealed that he hunted for a rumored tape of the president hitting Melania Trump – footage that he believes does not exist – and gave Democrats a reason to subpoena Trump's taxes.

The 29-year-old has had to bide his time to be given the opportunity to show what he is capable of. That chance has arisen at Bundesliga leaders RB Leipzig and he has seized it with both hands.

RICHARD KAY: Exactly 20 years ago, Prince Charles was refining plans for Poundbury, his experimental new town in Dorset.

RICHARD KAY: For both parties it looked like a marriage made in heaven - a classic case of opposites attracting.

The photo of the Queen at Windsor Castle on the phone to Boris Johnson does not just assuage fears for the health of our 93-year-old monarch, it resolutely declares it is business as usual.

RICHARD KAY: All her life she has been surrounded by people, from the moment she awakes till last thing at night. But the Queen's two weeks of virtual self-isolation haven't been straightforward.

RICHARD KAY: Like a precious hothouse flower, the 7th Marquess of Bath spent his 87 years sheltering from the chill winds of modern life behind an exquisite Elizabethan facade.

LAWRENCE BOOTH AT LORD'S: Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur criticised the World Cup regulations after his side missed out on the semi-finals to New Zealand on net run-rate.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's cabinet on Monday gave the green light for the state government to officially go after a bid for the Olympic and Paralympics Games in 2032.

The Paralympics has been added to the 'crown jewels' list of sports events which must be broadcast live on free-to-air TV - but cricket has been controversially overlooked.

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Taurus 21 APRIL-21 MAY Abandon all attempts to interfere with other people's lives this week

Yakutsk, built on permafrost in eastern Russia and with winter temperatures nudging minus -76F, was also hotter than Yemen on the Arabian peninsula.

The unravelling of a multi-million dollar drug ring run by Codie Peter Cowan (pictured) has revealed the thirst for drugs over public holiday weekends in some of Sydney's most affluent suburbs.

Zeinobiyah Soetekouw had spent most of her life aboard a 33-year-old 13m yacht 'Sumbawa', travelling Australia with her parents Beccie and Steve and 10 siblings.

The company, founded by Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas, will set up a branch at the Entertainment Quarter in Moore Park in the city's east.

Ryan William Victor Grafton, 26, is accused of running off with almost $500 in merchandise from an Oxenford sex shop, stealing cars, and also pinching a mobile phone on the Gold Coast.

Manfred Rudhart, chief executive of British Northern Rail's owner Arriva, saw his pay boosted from £1.08million to £1.34million last year.

The Australian Border Force found the huge haul at the Sydney Container Examination Facility after an X-ray was conducted on the construction item in June.

Boris Johnson keen to rebuild relations with Donald Trump and secure an agreement that could boost the UK economy post-Brexit.

In another indictment of 'soft justice' Britain, analysis of Ministry of Justice data shows the average sentence last year for causing death by dangerous driving was five years and three months.

Aaron McKenzie stood before Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court in south London this morning after detectives charged him with killing 26-year-old Kelly Mary Fauvrelle (pic) and her son Riley.

Jay Sewell (pictured) 18, was fatally stabbed on December 11 last year by a nine-strong group including Daniel 'Joe' Grogan, 20, after Gemma Hodder, started seeing the teenager, it is claimed.

Leigh Patrick, 29, was found dead in a sleazy West Palm Beach, Florida, motel just weeks short of her 30th birthday on May 30, 2017. She claimed to have been abused by Jeffrey Epstein.

The victims, a man aged in his 60s and a woman aged in her 70s, were discovered inside a house in Whitton on Friday morning.

Labour peer Oona King, 51, has been allowed to keep her title and continue to describe herself as a member of the House of Lords despite taking a 'leave of absence' and moving to San Francisco.

Convicted rapist Jason Lawrance (pictured on his wedding day) appeared at Nottingham Crown Court after it was alleged that he lied about having a vasectomy to a woman he met online.

Tafida Raqeeb, five, is currently at the Royal London Hospital. Doctors say she should be allowed to die after a blood vessel in her brain burst but Italian doctors believe there is hope for recovery.

Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, 28, is accused of accused of preparing acts of terrorism and his sister Sneha Chowdhury, 25, is accused of failing to disclose information. They were arrested in Luton.

Testimony from Carl Beech, 51, who claimed he was abused by a gang of paedophiles in Westminster, bore a series of striking resemblances to details in a survivor's account he had read.

Two men, aged 21 and 19, were accused of the attack in Canterbury, in the Sydney's south west, on July 7th.

Police are searching for Kye Enright, 21, who is allegedly linked to the fatal stabbing of Paul Rock in a car park outside a Queensland pub.

A 55-year-old man has been arrested following the unsolved 2007 murder of Melbourne mother of-three Cindy Crossthwaite.

A grandfather has spent his first night behind bars after leading a double life as an interstate gun runner and becoming the first person in WA to be prosecuted with cross border firearms trafficking.

The nanny was allegedly hired from the Philippines by agents for Tony Lam and lived with him and his wife and their two children in the Sydney CBD.

Brendan Russell, 38, was due to appear in Gosford District Court Thursday to formally plead not guilty to charges of manslaughter, female genital mutilation and causing grievous bodily harm.

Professional surfer Jamie O'Brien posted the stellar video to YouTube in April, showing him and his friends surfing down a storm drain in Hawaii.