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Business groups have criticised David Cameron's decision to pull the Conservative party out of the mainstream centre-right European parliament group after Thursday's elections

The international development committee urges UK government to find new funds for poor countries to adapt to severe storms, floods and droughtsBritain must urgently help poor countries tackle climate change or the gains made by years of development aid could be wiped out, according to a group of MPs examining Britain's assistance to developing countries.The report of the parliamentary international development committee urges the government to take a moral lead and find new money for poor countries to adapt to the severe storms, floods and droughts that are already being seen around the world and are impacting most on the poor.'This money should not come out of existing aid commitments which are already under pressure in the current economic downturn,' said chair of the committee, Malcolm Bruce MP.'Substantial funding will be needed. This must be additional to pledges already made for development assistance because developing countries are not responsible for the emissions which have c

A group of Detroit teenagers will air their concerns about public safety, a lack of youth recreation and thousands of abandoned buildings to Mayor Dave Bing.

THE Group of Eight universities has launched a review into the declining state of mathematics at schools and universities, concerned they will have to make increasing numbers of students take additional catch-up courses to compensate for the low-level maths with which they are leaving school.

? Listeriosis is a foodborne disease caused by eating food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. This organism causes serious illness in vulnerable groups such as the elderly, pregnant women,...

Islamabad - A Pakistani court on Tuesday ordered the release of the founder of an Islamic militant group accused of having links to last year's Mumbai attacks, his lawyer said. Hafiz Muhammad Saeed was detained and placed under house arrest in the ea...

Three scholars from the University of California, Berkeley, have been appointed to the state's new Economic and Allocation Advisory Committee, a group charged with helping California implement the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 .

California can prohibit public schools from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or identity, a judge ruled Monday, rejecting an invasion-of-privacy claim by a conservative group that said a new state law would force school officials to allow...

SOARING applications for college courses have prompted principals to ask the government for an extra £30 million to create more places.

From our early beginnings as a small but determined group of individuals on an epic voyage to stop nuclear testing in the Pacific to our latest confrontations of environmental and social injustice - our activists have had tremendous courage often in the face of serious personal consequences.