Plans to bring in controversial "pay as you throw" charges for waste have been delayed, the BBC understands. Read more… |
Liberal Democrat MPs have elected the first female House of Commons chairman in the party's history. Read more… |
London's transport system is a "barrier to the growth" of the city, Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly tells MPs. Read more… |
The Scottish Conservatives lead a Scottish Parliament debate about the recruitment of additional police officers. Read more… |
U.S. President George W. Bush ruled out any easing of the decades-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba but proposed loosening some restrictions on contacts with the communist-ruled island, if more freedoms were allowed.
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The State Department's chief of diplomatic security has resigned amid scrutiny of the use of private military contractors to guard the department's staff in Iraq, a spokesman said Wednesday.
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Gordon Brown is told to use "temperate language" after accusing David Cameron of "misleading" people. Read more… |
There is insufficient evidence to justify lowering the 24-week abortion limit, health minister Dawn Primarolo says. Read more… |
Gordon Brown has been warned not to "renege" on EU pledges to generate 20% of energy from renewable sources by 2020. Read more… |
Tory leader David Cameron challenges a move to have councils redistribute school surpluses in England. Read more… |
The Tories say there is "no possibility" of agreement on party funding while Labour refuses to cap trade union donations. Read more… |
More than 50,000 has been spent on the famous "red boxes" used by government ministers over the past few years. Read more… |
Ed Balls urges parents to read to their children every night as part of a drive to raise literacy standards. Read more… |
A west London primary school could be closed, with the council renting the premises to a private school. Read more… |
Too many people with mental health problems end up in prison when they need specialist care, a report says. Read more… |
Scotland's farmers are to receive 25m in aid to compensate them for the foot-and-mouth outbreak. Read more… |
Federal Emergency Management Agency officials know the agency's performance in the California wildfires will be watched closely for comparisons to its failures in Hurricane Katrina.
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Bellevue is a boomtown. The skyline is quickly rising with luxury condos and high-tech office space, while property values and tax revenues... Read more… |
The Prison Service has converted two jails so that they hold only foreign national prisoners, it has emerged. Read more… |
First Minister Alex Salmond calls for control over Scottish elections to be transferred to the Scottish Government. Read more… |
Richard Pope has run for office 10 times and lost 10 times. He has switched parties three times. Until now, he has been seen mostly as a... Read more… |
As voters start marking their mail-in ballots on Proposition 1, the "Roads & Transit" measure, both sides have produced misleading new... Read more… |
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