David Blunkett, a key political ally of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has resigned from the cabinet amid raging controversy over his business affairs.

The British government has broken human rights laws by including

A British cabinet minister embroiled in the messy fallout of an affair with a married woman has resigned, his department said.

Britain will not allow Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to be extradited to the United States unless there is a clear US undertaking that he will not be executed, British Home Secretary has said.