• UK teachers forced to work 100-hour weeks

  Teachers in independent schools are being denied the most basic employment rights, with some not having written contracts...

   

• Russia said to receive U.S. missile shield plan

  MOSCOW – Russia received written U.S. proposals on Wednesday which Washington hopes will allay Moscow’s concerns...

   

• Blues raided as part of corruption investigation

  Birmingham have been raided by police officers investigating football corruption. The club has promised to co-operate fully...

   

• Brown promises to meet Dalai Lama

  Gordon Brown has said he will meet Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama when he visits the UK.The prime minister...

   

• Human rights groups slam EU over Tibet stance

  EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have slammed the European...

   

• Human rights activist on trial in China

  BEIJING – Hu Jia, a human rights activist and commentator, was tried in a Beijing court yesterday on charges of inciting...

   

• Pentagon Destroys Guantanamo Evidence

  The Pentagon “likely” overwrote or deleted video recordings of a Guantanamo detainee that were subject to a court...

   

• Blackwater sells itself as a peacekeeper

  Blackwater Worldwide, the private security company whose guards are accused of shooting dead 17 Iraqi civilians last year,...

   

• DNA database will not be extended, says minister

  MPs told that calls from senior police officers will not be answered. The government has no plans to extend the DNA database...

   

• CCTV may soon ‘identify’ criminals

  · Offenders’ faces tracked through CCTV images · Scheme part of ‘hi-tech revolution on the beat’ The...

   

• VIDEO: Blockade of the World Biofuels Market

  Thursday March 13th 2008, the World Biofuels Market was blocked by an international group of activists that want to show...

   

• The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn

  Five years on, and still we have not learnt. With each anniversary, the steps crumble beneath our feet, the stones ever more...

   

• Dalai Lama threatens to quit over Tibet violence

  

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  The Dalai Lama has rejected claims by the Chinese government that he orchestrated the demonstrations in Tibet and said he...

   

• Bush Still Spinning Nukes in Iran

  The unanimous conclusion of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, that Iran ceased pursuing a program of nuclear weapons in...

   

• Is this the end of traditional governments?

  In the first chapter of David Rothkopf’s “Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making,”...

   

• Big Brother Keeping Tabs On Students

  New technology is helping Guilford County school leaders keep an eye on your kids. Greensboro, NC — The district installed...

   

• Postal voting cheats are threat to May elections

  Fears of widespread fraud in the local elections in May were raised yesterday after a judge said that the rules for postal...

   

• The Iraq War as a War Crime

  The Iraq War – now ending its fifth bloody year – represents not only a human tragedy of enormous consequence and possibly...

   

• Henry rules out Premier League return

  ‘We’re in the quarter-final of the Champions League and in a good place in the league. It’s certainly nothing...

   

• Homeland Security’s Five Years of Mistakes

  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just turned five years old. It seems like it was born just yesterday. The department’s...

   

• Reviving Vietnam War Tactics

  The top counterinsurgency adviser to Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq advocates practicing a “global Phoenix Program,”...