The US ambassador to the UK has told MPs the extradition treaty between the two countries works well, ahead of a Commons debate next week.

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US ambassador defends extradition

Britain may be without a fully operational aircraft carrier until 2030, according to a report published by the Commons spending watchdog.

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UK carrier ‘fully ready in 2030′

MPs are to express concerns about the impact petrol prices are having on family finances in a Commons debate.

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MPs to air petrol price concerns

Plans for universities in England to compete for some student places should be delayed, MPs on a Commons committee have said.

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MPs call for student plan delay

Plans for universities in England to compete for some student places should be delayed, MPs on a Commons committee have said.

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MPs call for student plan delay

Members of the UK Youth Parliament are debating calls to scrap tuition fees and cut the cost of public transport for young people among other issues in the House of Commons.

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‘Teen MPs’ stage Commons debate

A cross-party group of MPs says a Commons debate on extradition is needed to press for reforms to protect British citizens.

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Call to debate extradition rules

News International chairman James Murdoch is to face more questions from MPs on the Commons culture committee about phone hacking.

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Hacking MPs recall James Murdoch

David Cameron is understood to have apologised to Tory MP Nadine Dorries for his reply when she voiced “frustration” in the Commons at Lib Dem influence and told him to show Nick Clegg “who’s the boss”.

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PM sorry to ‘frustrated’ Dorries

Sally Bercow, wife of the Commons Speaker, is being urged to hand over some of her £150,000 Celebrity Big Brother fee to the taxpayer.

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Bercow attacked over Big Brother

Midfielder Kris Commons reveals that manager Neil Lennon has made it clear to the players that defeat by FC Sion would be unacceptable.

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Lennon warns against Euro defeat

In emergency session of the House of Commons.

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Cameron Faces Questioning Over Riots

Police must be sensitive to the age of child suspects when deciding whether to inform them of their Miranda right against self-incrimination, an ideologically split Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing for the majority, said the 5 to 4 ruling was merely a “commonsense” application of the court’s previous findings that children are not “miniature adults” and should be treated differently. The court ruled in favor of a 13-year-old who confessed to a burglary during a schoolhouse interrogation before being given a Miranda warning. Read full article > >

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Supreme Court: Children are different when it comes to Miranda warning against self-incrimination

In the world of home building, a phrase such as “the new American dream” conjures images of flashy show houses and the latest and greatest in features and materials. In the world of engineering it conveys something else altogether, as I learned at a conference at the University of Kansas last month. The focus of the New American Dream symposium — jointly sponsored by KU’s Transportation Research Institute, its Interdisciplinary Research Initiative in Nature and Culture, and the university’s Commons partnership — was the “smart grid” and the evolving relationship between electric utilities and residential customers. Read full article > >

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Smart-grid technology gets electric utilities and consumers interconnected

BAGHDAD — British defense officials announced Wednesday that the country is officially ending its military mission in Iraq on Sunday, concluding an unpopular eight-year operation that led to the deaths of 179 British military personnel. Although some British troops could still serve in Iraq as part of future NATO training obligations, Defense Secretary Liam Fox told the House of Commons that the 170 troops currently stationed in Iraq have successfully completed their mission to train Iraqi naval forces. Read full article > >

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Last British troops slated to leave Iraq