Britain's first Muslim minister has attacked the growing culture of hostility against Muslims in the United Kingdom, saying that many feel targeted like "the Jews of Europe".
Shahid Malik, who was appointed as a minister in the Department for
Chris Talbot is the candidate of the Socialist Equality Party in the July 10 by-election in the constituency of Haltemprice and Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It was called following the resignation of sitting Conservative MP David Davis in
Gordon Brown has recently announced plans that made even Greenpeace perform a ripple of applause.
£100bn investment (200bn USD) in renewable energy has been proposed meaning that thousands of wind turbines will be built.
The prime minister has
Human rights activists say they are disappointed by U.S. President George Bush's decision to attend the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Beijing and ignore calls for a boycott.
U.S. lawmakers and activist groups have urged Mr. Bush not to
Place the words “blog” or “social media” and “politician” in the same line, and you almost invariably conjure images of a scandal. Or at least a messy exchange between writer/publisher and politician. Much less often are you likely to consider them a
Gordon Brown visited staff and patients at a Sunderland hospital today to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the NHS.
The Prime Minister toured the hospital's state-of-the-art new cardiology lab and vowed to provide the means to make the NHS the envy of
The Zimbabwe issue is viewed with detachment in Asia. There is also a deep-rooted suspicion about Western double standards
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Chinua Achebe, one of Africa's greatest writers, once said of his country: "Nigeria is what it is because its
David Cameron has accused Gordon Brown of "bottling" reforms to MPs' expenses amid bitter recriminations over the decision to keep the John Lewis List.
The Tory leader dismissed the Prime Minister's excuses for failing to turn up for Thursday night's
Friday 4-Jul-2008 5:24 PM Games desensitise kids from crime, says Oasis song writer
Oasis' Noel Gallagher has blamed violent videogames as one of the reasons for the knife crime problem among Britain's youth.
Speaking to BBC Newsbeat, the song writer
The number of people surviving some of the most common types of cancer has doubled since the NHS was launched 60 years ago, figures suggest.
Gordon Brown has given the strongest signal yet that he will abandon the Government's planned 2p-a-litre