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Firms have a 'social duty' to hire British workers, says Conservative minister Matthew Hancock
Friday 26 July 2013
Companies have a "social duty" to employ young British workers rather than better-qualified immigrants, a Conservative minister said today.
Deaflympics: Deaf athletes get set - but who is watching the 'Silent Games'?
Thursday 25 July 2013
Deaflympics begins in Bulgaria, but suffers from lack of funding and media attention
Police rescue 100 besieged MPs after parliament blockade as Bulgaria protest turns violent
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Lawmakers were trapped inside for more than eight hours during protests
Hezbollah rattled as EU unanimously agrees to put group on terrorism blacklist
Monday 22 July 2013
Brussels has broken ties with military wing of the Lebanese organisation – but what will it mean on the ground?
‘Vampire' graveyard? Heads placed between legs of decapitated skeletons found in Poland
Friday 12 July 2013
Rearrangement indicates ancient execution rituals designed to ensure the dead do not return to life, say archaeologists
Boxing: David Haye is a 'little man who stinks the place out,' says Tyson Fury
Thursday 11 July 2013
Tyson Fury lit the blue touch paper ahead of his highly anticipated fight against David Haye by belittling the former WBA heavyweight champion's record and labelling him a "celebrity little fighting man" ahead of their contest in Manchester on 28 September.
Boxing: Anthony Joshua agrees Hearn pro deal
Monday 08 July 2013
Anthony Joshua, who won super-heavyweight gold for Britain at the Olympics, is expected to finally announce he has turned professional this week, and has signed a four-year deal with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom promotions.
Gay couple are first to get American green card after court ruling allowing gay marriage
Monday 01 July 2013
A Bulgarian student and his American husband are the first gay couple in the US to have their green card petition, or permanent visa, approved after the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriages.
Grigor Dimitrov slides out of singles
Friday 28 June 2013
Watched by his girlfriend Maria Sharapova, in sunglasses that were hardly needed, the 29th seed Grigor Dimitrov slid out of the men's singles after a dramatic half an hour's play that was interrupted by light drizzle. Resuming at 8-9 in the final set, he never got a grip on the match against Grega Zemlja and was eventually beaten 3-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-4, 11-9.
You’ve failed your exams – and you get an F in cheating: French mum dresses as daughter to take end of year English test
Thursday 20 June 2013
It was the perfect crime. The French newspaper Le Parisien reported that a 52-year-old Frenchwoman had been apprehended for impersonating her own daughter in an English exam.
British teenager dies after plunging 10 floors from a hotel balcony in Bulgaria
Wednesday 19 June 2013
Liam Davies, 19, was on a package holiday with friends
Aston Villa sign giant striker Nicklas Helenius from Aalborg
Tuesday 18 June 2013
The 6ft 5in frontman was the second-highest scorer in the Danish league last season
Foreign-born men more likely to be in work than British counterparts - and migrant workers earn UK £7bn annual boost
Thursday 13 June 2013
Male migrants in the UK have had higher levels of employment than 'native-born men' from 2007
Widow of poisoned spy Alexander Litvinenko says Government is trying to force her to give up attempts to uncover why Russian spy husband was murdered
Tuesday 11 June 2013
Marina Litvinenko will boycott inquest unless urgent public inquiry is ordered to replace it
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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