Don't fly Edward Snowden to UK, airlines told
British government issues travel alert to airlines around the world saying NSA whistleblower likely to be refused entry to UK The news of Edward Snowden screens at a restaurant in Hong Kong, where he...
View ArticleCitizenship test has become a bad pub quiz, says academic
US immigrant Dr Thom Brooks says Life in the UK test is inconsistent in what it requires new citizens to know Emperor Claudius on a bronze sestertius. The man who invaded Britain in AD 43 features in...
View ArticleCoroner asks for public inquiry into spy's death
SYLVIA HUI Associated Press= LONDON (AP) — A coroner overseeing a British inquest into the 2006 poisoning death of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko said Wednesday he has asked for a new public...
View ArticleJudge backs dying Pa. girl who needs new lungs
MARYCLAIRE DALE= PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily allowed a dying 10-year-old girl to move up the adult waiting list for a lung transplant, though an expert has questioned the...
View ArticleQueen's birthday honours: Baldrick beats Blackadder to knighthood
Tony Robinson receives knighthood for public and political service, and is joined by Clare Balding and Aled Jones Rowan Atkinson as Captain Edmund Blackadder (left) with Tony Robinson as Private...
View ArticleCuban blogger Sanchez back after world tour
PETER ORSI Associated Press= HAVANA (AP) — Blogger Yoani Sanchez returned Thursday to the island homeland that officially considers her a traitor, concluding a more than three-month globe-trotting...
View ArticleGovernment concession on No Advantage test possible
Victorian MP Laura Smyth demands the government develop clear guidelines for the controversial test for asylum seekers A boat full of asylum seekers is shipwrecked off Australia's Christmas Island....
View ArticleTorture, detention and ill-treatment past and present
Soldiers guard suspected Mau Mau fighters behind barbed wire in the Kikuyu reserve in October 1952, during the Mau Mau uprising against British colonial rule in Kenya. Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images...
View ArticleBaby 59 case highlights shortcomings of child protection system in China
Many Chinese children are pampered, but the baby rescued from a pipe and a spate of stories of abuse have raised concerns The newborn known as Baby 59 after he was rescued from a sewer pipe in Jinhua,...
View ArticleWorking mothers sole breadwinners for 40% of US families, study shows
Dramatic shift in number of women out-earning their husbands has soared in the past five decades, up from 11% in 1960 Demographers say the change is irreversible and reflects long-term changes....
View ArticleMothers now top earners in 4 in 10 US households
HOPE YEN Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — America's working mothers are now the primary breadwinners in a record 40 percent of households with children — a milestone in the changing face of modern...
View ArticleLabor unveils 457 visa crackdown
Backbenchers demand Gillard address asylum issue as minister reveals plan to force employers to search for local workers One of Julia Gillard's supporters said he and many of his western Sydney...
View ArticleRomanian officials voice concerns over anti-immgrant feeling to Nick Clegg
Senator Crin Antonescu says he is sad to hear such rhetoric in UK, citing huge benefits Romanians make to the country Antonescu said Romanian imigrants were not all criminals and scroungers as...
View ArticleImmigration opposition falls when told about benefits, survey shows
Poll finds number drops when told government's financial watchdog believes higher immigration will help economy grow Immigration controls at Heathrow airport. Photograph: Gregory Wrona /Alamy...
View ArticleTighter rules for student visas could cost UK £2.4bn in a decade – study
Research suggests more students are choosing to study in the US and Canada and that the change cannot easily be reversed A woman demonstrates against the British government's 2012 decision to strip...
View ArticleStop playing a crude numbers game with immigration. We must be open
Foreign students: a woman demonstrates outside 10 Downing Street in London, on 30 August, 2012, against the British government's decision to strip the London Metropolitan University of its right to...
View ArticleUK families speak of visa rules pain
"We need to know that you're not going to be living off benefits from day one of arriving here," the immigration minister said last year as he announced new rules to cut the number of people coming to...
View ArticleFamily migration rules that put a £18,600-a-year price tag on love are...
When Ashley Prodgers, a minister in the Salvation Army, and his Georgian wife, Teya Tikaradze, returned from their honeymoon in July last year, they were looking forward to a new life together serving...
View ArticleMigration rules 'causing anguish'
A breast-feeding mother separated from her British baby was among the cases the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Migration heard during its inquiry into the rules that came into force on in...
View ArticleUK visa rules breaking families apart: MPs
London: UK's new stringent immigration policies are forcing many professionals, including those from India, to leave the country to take care of their ageing parents, British MPs have said in a new...
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