Colin Freeman

When Sir Christian Turner , a career diplomat, was made Britain's new US ambassador after Lord Mandelson's sacking , his priorities were clear.

As the one-time home of the IRA hunger striker, Bobby Sands, the West Belfast suburb of Dunmurry suffered its share of scars during Northern Ireland's Troubles.

In the 190 years they have spent on their chilly South Atlantic outpost, Falkland Islanders have been called many names – not all of them polite.

Darren Johnson devoted most of his adult life to the Green Party. He joined back in 1987, enthused by the Greens’ embrace of environmentalism, gay rights and animal welfare, and refreshed by the break they offered from Labour-Tory tribalism.

In 35 years at sea, HMS Iron Duke only ever fired her guns in anger a handful of times.

In 35 years at sea, HMS Iron Duke only ever fired her guns in anger a handful of times. She did so to hit a gun battery during the war against Colonel Gaddafi in Libya in 2011, and before that while seizing drugs in the Caribbean in 2009.

Colin Freeman Ukrainian film director Lubomir Levitski always wanted to make it big in Hollywood.

In 35 years at sea, HMS Iron Duke only ever fired her guns in anger a handful of times. She did so to hit a gun battery during the war against Colonel Gaddafi in Libya in 2011, and before that while s...

To fellow Muslims in London's Tower Hamlets district, Abdul Halim Khan seemed a pillar of the community. The respected imam was a familiar face at his local mosque, delivering prayers and always on hand to dispense the Almighty's wisdom. To certain members of his flock, however, his spiritual talk took a very different turn.

For the European Union's more ardent federalists, it is an even greater dream than the single market, Schengen and the Eurozone.