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An urgent investigation into the safety of all 1,800 bridges in Cumbria was under way today after the heaviest rainfall since records began swept several away and claimed the life of a policeman. Gordon Brown yesterday pledged...
Mat Little profiles Maurice Glasman, dubbed the father of ‘Blue Labour' and learns more about Glasman's plans to clean up the City of London ‘They think I'm a communist', smiles Maurice Glasman impishly. Gazing through...
BAGHDAD, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi authorities broadcasted on Sunday a video showing three of Saddam Hussein's Baath party members confessing to have planned massive truck blasts that killed and wounded more than 600 people in...
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- California's budget crisis is deteriorating as students in many state universities are protesting a big tuition hike, with no immediate solution in sight. California State Superintendent of...
Excuse me for being picky, but why has the Local Government Commission decided that my vote in Herne Bay is to be worth 48 per cent less than that of a ratepayer in Rodney, come the brave new world of the Super City?...
Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai could invite militants to attend a "Loya Jirga," or grand council meeting, aiming to seek peace and reconciliation with the Taliban, a spokesman said on Sunday.
Tributes are being paid to the Bay of Plenty school principal and up-and-coming Maori leader killed outside a Whakatane bar at the weekend. Hawea Ralph Drummond Vercoe, 36, died after he was apparently punched to the ground...
China has substantially promoted its children's development and rights protection since it became the 105th signatory of the "Convention on the Rights of the Child" adopted by the 44th United Nations General Assembly this day...
The Kurdish [Kurdistan] Regional Government in northern Iraq might be willing to grant amnesty to militants of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Nechirvan Barzani, a prominent political figure in the region, has...
The South African Communist Party's provincial council meeting to elect a new chairperson to replace the late Pandelani Ramagoma is underway in Polokwane in Limpopo. Ramagoma, who was also former Public Works MEC, was killed in...
