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Plans to make it easier to sack under-performing staff members are "not an attack on civil servants" and part of reforms backed by workers, says Francis Maude.

A university guide compares local crime rates - with London institutions at the top of this robbery league table.

Greece displays the post-liberal variety, Egypt the pre-liberal one. Both are rotten.

Fewer re-sits and end of year exams rather than modules are proposed in plans to make A-levels more challenging.

People are risking their health by working on smartphones, tablets and laptops after they have left the office, according to the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

Arsenio Hall uses the "Piers Morgan Tonight" platform to announce details of his new show

LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- A state lawmaker who says she was barred from speaking in the Michigan House because Republicans objected to her saying "vagina" during debate over anti-abortion legislation performed "The Vagina Monologues" on the Statehouse steps - with a hand from the author....

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U.S.-born terrorist pleads guilty in 'mini al Qaeda' case

A New Yorker accused of trying to start what prosecutors called "a mini al Qaeda cell" pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges of conspiracy and providing material support to a terrorist organization.

An indictment had alleged that Wesam El-Hanafi ...

The US warns an Iranian dissident group it must leave a camp in Iraq, if it hopes to be removed from a US list of terrorist groups.

Roadshows are being held in Edinburgh and Glasgow to encourage businesses to invest in the £1bn Dundee waterfront transformation.

A Canadian porn actor suspected of killing and dismembering a university student in Montreal left Germany and arrived in Canada on Monday, a police official said.

I don't want more options. I want fewer options.

A new study shows that political activism helps returns to shareholders.

The Supreme Court takes down another Obama legal claim.

Signs of disorder grow as American influence recedes.

Seven months in the Los Angeles County jail have taken a physical toll on Conrad Murray, the doctor convicted in Michael Jackson's death, his lawyer told CNN Monday.

Filmed with infrared cameras, a highly secretive unmanned Air Force space plane lands after more than a year in orbit.

A paralysed man who wants a doctor to be able to lawfully kill him is being condemned to live in a state of "suffering and indignity" by the current law, a court hears.

Facebook will soon be using your Web browsing to help decide which advertisements you see.

I wonder if black people would be still in the fields picking cotton today if the 13th Amendment -- the one abolishing slavery -- was placed on the ballot back in 1865.