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Hong Kong protesters are planning a fresh show of force Friday evening after talks with the government dramatically collapsed and US lawmakers urged President Barack Obama to press concerns about the city’s democracy fight with Beijing. Crunch talks between protesters

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For the first time in three years, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wasn’t on a list of dignitaries at a celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers’ Party. The apparent

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s president on Friday urged China to move toward a more democratic style of development, reiterating his strong support for pro-democracy demonstrations in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong. Ma Ying-jeou used his speech at Taiwan’s National Day celebrations to

I wonder whether Shell has yet sacked whichever pillock it was who advised them a few years back to sponsor the Guardian’s ferociously anti-fossil-fuel, anti-capitalist, anti-Shell Environment pages? Knowing the craven, slippery, self-hating ways of Big Oil as I do,

HEYWOOD, United Kingdom – As exhausted and jubilant UKIP activists head to bed after two hard fought campaigns, they face a very sobering thought: the party’s strategy over the last few weeks probably cost them a seat. From the outset

CLACTON-UPON-SEA, United Kingdom — The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) tonight took its first elected seat in the House of Commons following Douglas Carswell’s stunning defection and by-election in the Essex seat of Clacton-Upon-Sea. Shortly after the Heywood and Middleton

HEYWOOD, United Kingdom – Labour’s Liz McInnes held the seat of Heywood and Middleton in tonight’s by-election, after what is likely to be remembered as yet another remarkable UKIP surge. Nigel Farage’s party went from a poor fifth place in the

HEYWOOD, United Kingdom – The Labour Party in Heywood and Middleton is “shocked” by the size and professionalism of the UKIP machine at today’s by-election according to a party spokesman. Nigel Farage’s party had been expected to struggle to run

As forces loyal to the Islamic State reach the Turkish border, the British defence secretary has called for the parliamentary mandate for military action to be extended from Iraq to Syria, and for Turkish forces to cross the border and

A convicted rapist who is HIV positive is the subject of a Europe wide manhunt following his escape from a psychiatric ward in eastern Sweden. Although the man has been missing for two weeks, Swedish police only contacted European authorities

An Austrian primary school has been forced to scrap its popular yoga classes as one parent has complained on the grounds of religion. It is not known which religion the family in question belong to. The monthly yoga classes had

British airports are to start screening passengers arriving from West Africa in an attempt to stop the Ebola virus from entering the UK. Sky News reports that the government is expected to make an official announcement shortly, just hours after

MIDDLETON, United Kingdom – It is fair to say that the whole British political establishment is watching Clacton today to see if Douglas Carswell’s gamble of defecting to UKIP and resigning will pay off. Less notable is the Heywood and

The German Taxpayers’ Alliance, Bund der Steuerzahler (BdSt) has launched its 2014 edition of the Black Book of local government spending in Berlin. This year the publication focussed on loss-making businesses owned by municipalities, including a failed health spa and

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Patrick Modiano of France, who has made a lifelong study of the Nazi occupation and its effects on his country, won the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for what one academic called “crystal clear and resonant”

Everyone dissembles on the internet, whether little white lies on dating sites or whoppers on anonymous forums. The odd harmless bit of embroidery in real life helps to keep conversation sparkling, or avoid awkward moments. But, increasingly, untruths are used

Britain’s main rail union on Thursday called off a 48-hour strike on the London Underground system planned for next week after “substantial progress” in talks with management. Members of the 80,000-strong Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union had been due

The companion of a British tourist freed from Moroccan jail this week after being arrested with him for “homosexual acts” has also been released from custody, a rights group said Thursday. Jamal Wald Nass, a Moroccan national in his 20s,

With RAF Tornados undertaking airstrikes over key ISIL targets in Iraq, decisions made back in the Strategic Defence and Security Review of 2010 are being put under the spotlight. The debate by MPs in Westminster took for granted the Royal

An International child porn ring has been toppled by Austrian police, after they caught a 37 year old man in possession of tens of thousands of photos and videos. Their investigations led to the identification of a further 52 individuals

A boy from Sierra Leone has been banned from attending a school in Britain after parents became worried he could spread Ebola. Nine-year-old Kofi Mason-Sesay was due to attend St Simon’s Catholic Primary School in Greater Manchester as part of

CLACTON-ON-SEA, United Kingdom — “This idea that they’re all the same… It’s true. They’ve all got the same, multicultural, metropolitan ideas for England,” my cab driver in Clacton told me this morning. “I hope this is like another peasants revolt,

GLASGOW Scotland (Reuters) – Since partnering with Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives in 2010, the junior party in Britain’s first coalition government since World War Two has watched its opinion poll ratings slump. The Liberal Democrats have been hammered in

The Bank of England voted on Thursday to keep its main interest rate at a record-low level of 0.50 percent, in a context of low inflation and steady economic recovery in Britain. The central bank’s nine-strong monetary policy committee opted