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- BT offers staff a year at home for pay cut
(AFP)
 AFP - BT, seeking to slash costs in the face of Britain's worst recession in years, is offering employees a year at home in return for a 75-percent pay cut, the telecoms operator said Saturday.
- Cairo to host next world science journalists' conference
[LONDON] The 7th World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ), to be held in Cairo, Egypt, in 2011, will surpass the achievements of the sixth, its co-director has promised. 'We're going to aim even higher,' said Nadia El-Awady, newly-elected president
- Jamaican ex-cop convicted of fleecing UK bank
A Jamaican ex-policeman turned night manager in a UK bank has been found guilty of stealing up to two million Pounds. The Times Online says Earl Walker, 50, who separated damaged or counterfeit notes from good ones for the Bank of England is awaiting
- Iran frees three more British embassy staff
Tehran, July 3 (IANS) Iran has freed three more staff members of the British embassy who were detained on charges of stoking the post-election unrest, a media report said Friday. All the eight staff members of the British embassy in Tehran who were
- UK Consumers Tighten Their Belts
Shoppers fill the aisles of the Tesco Extra superstore in New Malden, Surrey, England. (Oli Scarff/) LONDONThe average UK household is 200 pounds ($122) a month more today than a year ago. But with the uncertainties of the recession and falling housing
- UK Doctors Back Calls For Minimum Price For Alcohol
Main Category: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Article Date: 03 Jul 2009 Doctors attending the BMA's annual conference in Liverpool have today (Thursday 2 July 2009) backed calls to introduce a minimum price for a unit of alcohol. Proposing a motion which
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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the earths surface. The first half of the 20th century saw the UKs strength seriously depleted in two World Wars. The second half witnessed the dismantling of the Empire and the UK rebuilding itself into a modern and prosperous European nation. The UK currently is weighing the degree of its integration with continental Europe. A member of the EU, it chose to remain outside of the EMU for the time being. Constitutional reform is also a significant issue in the UK. Regional assemblies with varying degrees of power opened in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland in 1999.
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