Former British envoy is suspended
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A UK diplomat who was withdrawn as ambassador to Uzbekistan is suspended on full pay.
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Nobel laureate biologist James Watson was suspended Friday from his longtime post at a research laboratory and canceled his planned British book tour after controversial comments that black people are not as intelligent as white people.
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Should an ambassador speak out over human rights even if this upsets his or her own government? The question has been posed by the dismissal from his post as British ambassador to Uzbekistan
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The British Council suspended operations at its Saint Petersburg office Wednesday as London condemned the questioning and detention by Russian secret police of employees at the cultural body.
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A Conservative MP was suspended from parliament for 10 days Thursday for misuse of public funds over the employment of his student son as a researcher.
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Zimbabwe's attorney-general has been suspended on misconduct charges after he met a former banker who is on the police wanted list, a state daily reported Saturday.
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The probe into a giant British-Saudi arms deal was scrapped after London&#39;s ambassador in Riyadh warned that it risked British lives, according to confidential papers published in a newspaper Thursday.
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The trial of 19 people accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea was suspended indefinitely to take into account new developments such as the arrest of Margaret Thatcher's son in South Africa.
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An ex-priest who lives in Britain was given a 12-month suspended sentence today for disrupting the menâs Olympic marathon in Athens.
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Brighton - A member of Britain&#39;s ruling Labour Party has been barred from its annual conference for refusing to applaud a speech by Prime Minister Tony Blair in protest at the Iraq war, his wife said on Wednesday.
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The Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has unanimously recommended that Ivan Slavkov, chairman of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee, be suspended.
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Nobel Prize-winner James Watson is suspended by his research institution after making comments on the subject of race and intelligence.
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The former Blue Peter editor who was moved to a new job following the show's fake phone-in scandal is understood to have been suspended after another instance of alleged viewer deception on his watch emerged.
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A judge quashed a four-week suspension slapped on London Mayor Ken Livingstone for comparing a Jewish journalist to a Nazi concentration camp guard, officials said.
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Finance and Planning Minister M Saifur Rahman said yesterday that a donor agency suspended assistance worth 300 million dollars to Bangladesh after labelling the country as the most corrupt nation by Berlin ...
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Russia expelled four British diplomats  on Thursday and suspended cooperation with London on fighting  terrorism, as a bitter row over Moscow&#39;s refusal to extradite a  murder suspect escalated.
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A Conservative MP is suspended from the party after being held on suspicion of assaulting his wife.