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Global growth continues for AMBA

The international authority on postgraduate business education, the Association of MBAs (AMBA), has reported a 17 per cent growth in membership numbers.

North Korea 'has nuclear weapon it can mount on rocket' warns US, as John Kerry warns missile launch would be 'huge mistake'

Mr Kerry arrived South Korea as part of a unusual diplomatic journey, traveling directly into a region bracing for a possible North Korean missile test

The Sport Matrix: Friday 12 April 2013

Lynn impresses while Donaldson hits hole-in-one

Angelina Jolie and William Hague to fight war-zone rape and sexual violence

The Government will spend a further £10 million on tackling war-zone sexual violence and violence against women and girls, Foreign Secretary William Hague announced today.

North Korea nuclear threat: South Korea warns citizens that Pyongyang is now ready to launch a missile 'at any time'

South Korea’s warning of an 'imminent' strike comes as the North prepares to mark the April 15 birthday of the nation’s founder Kim Il-sung

Millions of North Koreans have returned to collective farms to make fertiliser

North Korea's reservists 'called back to help with spring harvest'

The warning, announced on North Korean state television, is the latest salvo in weeks of sustained bellicosity that have raised the threat of conflict to its highest level in years. But on the ground the grave words were largely ignored – foreign businesses and schools were operating normally and consulates gave no indication they were taking the threat seriously.

British airline stewardess Evelyn Clarke dies after falling from high-rise building in Dubai

British airline stewardess Evelyn Clarke dies after falling from high-rise building in Dubai

A British airline stewardess has fallen to her death from a high-rise building in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai.

Margaret Thatcher in a McDonalds branch in East Finchley

Mrs Thatcher implanted the gene of greed in Britain

That was the truly poisonous part of her legacy in this country

February 27, 2012: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds a document containing leaked information at a news conference in London. The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than five million emails from a U.S.-based global security analysis company that has been likened to a shadow CIA.

WikiLeaks releases Kissinger cables as part of 1.7 million US diplomatic records

He may have been confined to London’s Ecuadorean Embassy for almost a year, but Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks website published its latest work today: more than 1.7 million US diplomatic communications from the years 1973-1976, which it has dubbed “The Kissinger Cables”.

Lindsay Sandiford, 56, was sentenced to death at Denpasar District Court in January

British woman Lindsay Sandiford loses appeal against Bali death sentence for drug smuggling

She claims she had to smuggle the drugs for a gang threatening one of her sons

Guard duty: A North Korean soldier keeps watch on South Korea last week from the truce village of Panmunjom

South Korea backtracks on nuclear test claim as tensions continue to rise across region

A government official said that Mr Ryoo had intended to say that North Korea has long been ready to conduct a nuclear test

Reports of Pyongyang's next missile test stokes tensions in South Korea

Military in the South is in ‘readiness’ amid fears of new weapons launch by the North this week

Sir Alex Ferguson and Roberto Mancini

Manchester United v Manchester City: Weaker teams try harder in games with us than they do against United, says Roberto Mancini

City manager’s latest excuse for title race gap is that Ferguson’s side frighten other teams

Grant Cameron, left, and Karl Williams allege they were beaten and electrocuted after being imprisoned in Dubai

British tourists held on drug charges in Dubai 'denied UK lawyers'

A lawyer claims she was refused access to men who allege they were ‘tortured’ in jail

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