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Boys' Brigade's African visitors denied visas
Sunday 04 August 2013
Youth charity's global celebrations marred as Home Office refuses to allow delegates entry
Book review: The Great Tamasha, By James Astill
Friday 02 August 2013
The rupee rules at the wicket today. But can the old game survive in a new economic era?
Cambodian government ready to discuss power-sharing with opposition after contentious election
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Both sides appear poles apart on how to resolve political stalemate following accusations of widespread fraud against ruling party
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's father considers FBI request for him to visit son in Moscow
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Lonnie Snowden has told Russian TV that he needs to know what the FBI want him to do before flying out to see his son
Exclusive: Met dragged into blue-chip hacking saga as MPs demand Hogan-Howe releases details on rogue investigators
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Scotland Yard was dragged into the blue-chip hacking scandal last night after Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe was asked to release suppressed information from four little-known investigations into rogue private detective agencies.
'Even worse than Foxconn': Apple rocked by child labour claims
Tuesday 30 July 2013
China Labour Watch links 'competitive advantages' offered by illegal labour practices with plans for a new, cheaper iPhone
Public 'impotent in their judgment' without names over blue-chip hacking, say MPs
Monday 29 July 2013
Home Secretary expected to announce this week that private investigators will be regulated for first time
Two killed as tens of thousands flock to Cairo's Tahrir Square - the home of the 2011 revolution that is now army territory
Saturday 27 July 2013
A Cairo plaza that was once the crucible of a revolt against tyranny was transformed into a plaything of Egypt’s conservative military yesterday, as tens of thousands of people flocked into Tahrir Square to show their support for an expected army operation to crush the Muslim Brotherhood.
IPCC to investigate Hillsborough police offier Sir Norman Bettison over report on anti-racism campaigner
Friday 26 July 2013
The Independent Police Complaints Commission said police systems may have been misused
Jim Armitage: Visa system is a brake on our world-beaters
Thursday 25 July 2013
Outlook: The microchip designer Arm Holdings is such a fabulous success story one almost has to pinch oneself to believe it is British. Yesterday it reported that more than 2 billion iPhones, iPads, smart TVs and other devices containing its chips had been shipped around the world in the past three months alone. At a time when few companies are reporting serious revenue growth (see Glaxo's 2 per cent above), Arm's were up 24 per cent in the quarter at $264m (£172m).
Tablet-controlled with ambient lighting: Inside Boeing's next-gen spaceship
Wednesday 24 July 2013
New CST-100 will shuttle NASA astronauts up to the ISS
Jermaine Pennant is denied access to the United States for the second pre-season in a row
Tuesday 23 July 2013
The midfielder's previous criminal convictions mean that he'll have to remain in the UK while the rest of the squad head off on a three-match tour of America
Dubai rape case: Norwegian woman receives 'pardon' after being jailed
Monday 22 July 2013
Norwegian Marte Deborah Dalelv's sentencing to 16 months last week caused outrage in the West
Privacy actions up 22% as public fights storage of personal information on ‘big brother’ databases
Monday 22 July 2013
A sharp rise in the number of privacy hearings in British courts has been fuelled by requests for “irrelevant” personal information to be removed from police and other state databases, figures show.
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- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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