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Cameron refuses another Scottish Referendum
UK Prime Minister David Cameron says there is no need for another referendum on Scotland independence.
The British Prime Minister David Cameron says he will not hold another referendum on Scotland while he is in power.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said there is no need for another referendum on Scottish independence, emphasizing that no vote will not take place while he is in office until at...
NHS unveils plans for emergency targets
The National Health Service (NHS) in England has unveiled new plans to ensure patients requiring urgent care are seen within four hours.
The drive is aimed remedying the NHS failure to meet its target for dealing with 95% of Accidents and Emergency (A&E) patients within four hours last winter.
NHS plans to ensure the time frame by creating better links between Primary Care Trusts and Hospitals.
The...
Pakistan plans mass surveillance system
The UK-based watchdog group Privacy International says Pakistan’s spy agency, ISI, is building a mass surveillance system.
A UK-based watchdog group says Pakistan spy agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has hired intermediary companies to acquire spying toolkits from Chinese firms for a mass surveillance program.
According to a recent report from Privacy International, the ISI has sought...
Barclays to Cut 30,000 Jobs
Barclays has reportedly announced plans to cut more than 30,000 jobs within two years, in a move that comes just two weeks after the bank’s chief executive Antony Jenkins was fired.
More than 30,000 employees of Barclays, the seventh-largest bank in the world in terms of managed assets, will be laid off within the next two years, in a development that comes amid the bank’s efforts to speed...
UK Girl Banned from Flight because she's Too White and Ginger
Grace Wain, 14 not allowed to fly because she is “too white”.
A very popular free newspaper in the UK recently ran the headline “Girl is banned from flight because she’s too ginger”. If the headline wasn’t contemptuous enough it’s opening sentence certainly was! It said:
“Gingers have it bad enough already without having to worry if they are let on a flight because of the colour...
Degradation of Earth risks humans’ health
The unprecedented degradation of the Earth’s resources threatens humans’ health gains.
The overexploiting of the Earth’s natural resources coupled with climate change can put at stake much of what humans have gained in their health enhancement efforts over the last 150 years, new study says.
The results of a study conducted by 15 leading scientists, published in the peer-reviewed medical journal...
Londoner arrested for charging iPhone on train
A man was arrested for charging his iphone on an Overground train in London.
A man has been arrested in London for charging his phone using a socket on a London Overground train.
Robin Lee, a 45 year old artist from North London, was handcuffed and arrested for abstracting electricity. Lee was then also arrested for unacceptable behavior after he allegedly became aggressive when showing his objection...
Accidental discovery could cure cancer
A 3-D view of the mesh: microtubules (green tubes) of the mitotic spindle are held together by a yellow network, the mesh. (Warwick Medical School).
Scientists have accidentally discovered a cell structure which may prove helpful in the understanding of cancer development.
A group of researchers from the University of Warwick discovered “the mesh” and recently published their findings on the online...
UK to send fence to France to halt illegal migrants
Britain is reportedly set to build a 2-mile fence at the Channel Tunnel to stop migrants from boarding UK-bound trains.
Home Secretary Theresa May has said she wanted to send a “very clear message” that people will not be able to get through to the UK through this, the Daily Mail reported.
She said, “We are working very closely with the French authorities on this issue. We have been doing a...
Child poverty in UK set for biggest rise
A child playing in the streets in Brierfield in Lancashire where nearly 35% of children live in poverty.
Child poverty rate in Britain is reportedly heading towards its largest increase in a generation, reversing over a decade of progress that began in the late 1990s, leading independent experts say.
The bleak projection emerged Saturday just before the release of government statistics that are expected...
UK confirms arming Saudi Arabia in Yemen war
The photo released by Human Rights Watch shows the remnants of air-dropped cluster munitions and unexploded BLU-97 submunitions found in Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada on May 23, 2015.
Britain’s Ministry of Defense has confirmed London has been arming Saudi Arabia in its relentless military campaign against Yemen.
A ministry spokesperson said the Britain’s assistance to Saudi Arabia...
UK experts warn against growing steroid use
The number of men using anabolic steroids in Britain is reaching staggering proportions.
According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, just under 60,000 people a year take steroids. However those working with steroid users say the number is significantly higher. Professor Julian Baker from the University of the West of Scotland is an expert in steroid use and thinks the number of steroid users...
$14.3 trillion wasted on war in 2014
The cost of global war in the year 2014 reached $14.3 trillion, or 13.4 percent of the global gross domestic product, a report by the Institute for Economics and Peace says.
Last year, the cost of global conflict equaled the combined economies of Britain, Germany, France, Brazil, Canada, and Spain, according to a recent report by the Australia-based group.
The statistics mark a 15.3-percent spike...
Rioting Migrants Attempt to Hijack French Trucks Heading for UK
Shocking footage filmed in the French port town of Calais shows desperate migrants attempting to break into delivery trucks heading to the United Kingdom in another illustration of how the country’s generous welfare system acts as a beacon for illegal aliens.
The clip shows huge gangs of migrants roaming around on a highway attempting to attack vehicles.
Police or immigration authorities are nowhere...
UK suspends MI6 Espionage Activities in "Hostile" Russia and China - Snowden leak
The British MI6 secret service had to suspend operations of its field agents due to imminent exposure in “hostile” countries such as Russia and China, caused by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s leaks, the Sunday Times reports.
The Sunday Times alleges that both Moscow and Beijing have succeeded in cracking top-secret encrypted documents leaked by Snowden and thus learnt MI6’s methods.
The...