The Labour leader has made a modest start - but Cameron and Clegg have problems too, argues Mary Riddell.
At least 43 people reported dead after boat capsizes, and authorities say second vessel is missing At least 43 African migrants trying to reach Yemen by boat have drowned in heavy seas off the coast, and a second boat with up to 40 Ethiopians aboard is missing, Yemen's interior ministry said today. The ministry said three Somalis were rescued ...
The Huskies' NCAA-record 90-game winning streak ended Thursday night with a loss to Stanford. Their nearly three-year hold on the top ranking ended Monday when they were overtaken by Baylor and dropped to No. 2 in The Associated Press poll. Connecticut had had been the top team for a record 51 straight weeks, beginning Feb. 18, 2008.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Erich Kwek's new office is awash in sunlight and impeccably ordered, with enough space for a desk, small sitting area and a conference table. If you didn't know better, you might mistake it for a corner office at a successful corporation.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida has confirmed that former Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis will be Will Muschamp's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
More than 3,000 people at rally pledge to defend 'the people's' trees from what they fear will be corporate land grab There's been nothing quite like it in the ancient Forest of Dean since the last time a Conservative government tried to privatise Britain's largest oak forest. In 1993, the threat to sell off 42 square miles of woodland between ...
Trisha Hollingworth knew that it was time to evacuate her home on the outskirts of Rockhampton when she awoke to floodwaters lapping at the front steps. She had been told that the water was coming, but the speed with which it arrived took her by surprise. The front garden, where she had celebrated New Year's Eve with a barbecue with her neighbours,
An Iranian nuclear scientist who claimed he slipped away from his CIA captors has not been seen publicly since his return to Tehran last year, according to an opposition website.
John Boehner still lacks a widely agreed upon nickname. He was called Boner by his oh-so-imaginative high school classmates, and lately I’ve been seeing Orange Julius. There’s The Great Pumpkin – I just had to google to see if I coined that one (evidently not) – Agent Orange, the Town Crier.... What else have you heard? What did Bush ...
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Bill has written two New York Times best-selling books, Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt. With political journalist Lila Rajiva, he wrote his third New York Times best-selling book, Mobs, Messiahs and Markets, which offers concrete advice on how to avoid the public spectacle of modern finance. Since 1999, Bill has been a daily ...
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Of course, not really. But I’m using the conservative technique of extending one position on an issue to an entire ideology. What is notable is that people do not – repeat – do not, oppose increased taxes on rich people. Most Americans think the United States should raise taxes for the rich to balance the [...]
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Lovie Smith wouldn't reveal his rooting interest as the Bears wait to see who they will face in the playoffs. "Yeah, there are teams you would probably prefer to play," Smith said Monday. "In the end, whoever shows up, we're excited to play and we should match up."
 
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Since WikiLeaks threatened to “take down” a major American bank, Bank of America has been hunting for signs that its systems have been compromised.
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Archaeologists and preservationists are turning to ancient sites in Iraq to combat any further deterioration.
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The chief executive of a scheme which coordinates assistance for UK water operators says it was not asked to help NI Water until New Year's Eve - seven days after the crisis began.
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