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The proportion of schools judged inadequate has leapt since a tougher inspection regime was introduced last year.

Microsoft is launching a free online video player - the first serious rival to the BBC’s iPlayer

A blonde American woman who went under the online alias "Jihad Jane" has been accused of plotting to murder a Swedish cartoonist for drawing a picture of the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog, it emerged today.

The Government admitted today that four soldiers killed in Afghanistan had been failed after highly critical comments from the coroner at their inquest yesterday.

Hundreds of Tibetans have been rounded up in Lhasa and armed paramilitaries are patrolling the streets in the run-up to the anniversary of a bloody riot in 2008.

Gordon Brown today made a controversial pledge to freeze the pay of top civil servants, judges, generals and doctors to save £3 billion, as he made a pitch to British voters over his handling of the economy.

Northern Rock, the state-owned bank bailed out with £26 billion in taxpayers’ funds, will share a £14.9 million bonus among its staff despite running up a loss over 2009.

A psychiatric report that paved the way for the release of Jon Venables, one of James Bulger’s killers, concluded that he posed a “trivial” risk to the public, The Times has learnt.

The Pope’s brother gave a rare insight yesterday into a pervasive culture of violence at Roman Catholic institutions, admitting that he hit children while he was choirmaster at a German boarding school.

It was probably the smallest show in Alexander McQueen’s history and not the one he had originally planned. That was to have taken place in the Conciergerie, a favourite venue of his and the gloomiest of Marie-Antoinette’s prisons.

British diplomats have expressed serious concerns to the US State Department at least three times over Washington’s response to the latest dispute over the Falkland Islands, The Times has learnt.

A former head of MI5 has claimed that US intelligence agencies deliberately concealed their mistreatment of terror suspects.

By all accounts, Nicklas Bendtner is not the type of young man to allow so much as an off-day to shake his belief that he is destined for greatness, but as he emerged from the Arsenal players’ celebratory huddle after this masterclass, he might have reflected on this as the night that he came of age on the Champions League stage.

President Obama’s troubled and marathon effort to reform the US health industry took a bizarre twist today after a Democratic congressman said he was lambasted over the issue by a naked White House chief of staff in a men’s locker room.

Easter rail travel is under threat from three industrial disputes which could halt trains in the first national rail strike for 16 years.

Gordon Brown tonight hailed as “the final end” to the Irish peace process a decision by the Northern Ireland Assembly to devolve policing and justice powers from Westminster, as a political row continued over David Cameron’s relationship with the Ulster Unionist Party.

The Northern Ireland Assembly voted in favour of the devolution of policing and justice powers from Westminster today, despite opposition from the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP).

Special forces troops were sent to Afghanistan in unsuitable vehicles and without sufficient training and bomb-detecting kit, a coroner has found at the close of the inquest into the death of the only British female soldier killed in the country.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has condemned evangelist "bulies" who attempt to convert people of other faiths to Christianity.

Merseyside Police referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission today over claims that it failed to properly monitor serial sex attacker Peter Chapman.