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NHS reforms criticised by leading healthcare publications
British Medical Journal, Health Service Journal and Nursing Times condemn shakeup as a 'damaging … unholy mess'The coalition's NHS reforms, the biggest shakeup of the health service in 60 years, are a...
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Flood defences hit by government cuts 'mismatch', say MPs
Committee claims large coalition cuts leave significant shortfall in protection of 5m UK homes at risk of flood damageGovernment cuts have left a "big mismatch" between the money available for flood...
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HMRC delays tax return deadline as civil servants stage one-day strike
HMRC will not issue fines to anyone filling tax returns on 1 or 2 February as civil servants strike over privatisation fearsThousands of tax office workers will stage a 24-hour strike on Tuesday in a...
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Thousands of vocational qualifications to be stripped out of GCSE league tables
Courses such as fish husbandry, nail technology and horse care will no longer count as equivalent to GCSEsThousands of vocational qualifications – including courses in fish husbandry and nail...
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Libyan dissidents sue MI6 officer over abduction and torture claims
Abdul Hakim Belhaj and Sami al-Saadi serve claim on Sir Mark Allen in first test of legislation described as a 'licence to kill'Two prominent Libyan dissidents are suing a former senior MI6 officer in...
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Chinese dissident on trial after using Skype to send poem
Prosecutors charged Zhu Yufu with subversion, citing his poem, It's Time, as well as text messages sent using SkypeChinese prosecutors cited a poem and messages sent on Skype in the trial of a...
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IAEA approves stress tests on Japan reactors
UN inspectors have given their backing to tests designed to confirm the reactors' safety, despite concern from some expertsJapan's attempts to restart nuclear reactors that were shut down in the wake...
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China tightens security at Tibetan monasteries
Officials try to prevent protests spreading from neighbouring communities into Chinese-ruled Tibet, including LhasaA senior official in Chinese-ruled Tibet has ordered an increase in security at...
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Somali militants shut down Red Cross food aid
Al-Shabaab insurgents say relief group is distributing spoiled food and has shut down aid distribution in the famine-hit southSomali insurgents have shut down food aid distribution by a major aid group...
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South Africa recalls 1m ANC condoms
Scores of people given free condoms at the party's centenary celebrations have complained that they are faultyA South African health official says 1.35m condoms given away at the African National...
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Barack Obama faces pressure over TVShack extradition case
US president asked to explain why America is trying to extradite British student Richard O'Dwyer over alleged copyright breachBarack Obama has come under pressure to explain American attempts to...
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River Cottage school cuts hot lunches
Mrs Ethelston's primary among several Devon schools to tell public-private venture the meals have become too expensiveA primary school that featured on a celebrity chef's television programme about...
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Cameron sold UK down the river at Brussels summit, says Miliband
Labour leader accuses prime minister of failing to protect British interests and mishandling negotiations with European UnionDavid Cameron is to face Labour claims in the Commons that he sold the...
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Lord Ashcroft accused of misleading public over links to construction firm
Peer gave impression he had no role in firm when it allegedly built mansion for Turks and Caicos PM, Panorama claimsThe Tory peer Michael Ashcroft has been accused of deliberately misleading the public...
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Birmingham double murder accused found dead in prison cell
Rimvydas Liorancas, charged with the murders of Avtar and Carole Kolar this month, found dead at Woodhill prisonA Lithuanian man accused of the murders of a police officer's parents in Birmingham has...
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Iran launches Spanish TV channel
Hispan TV will deal blow to 'dominance seekers', says Mahmoud AhmadinejadIran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has officially launched Spanish-language satellite TV channel, saying it would deal a blow...
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Blue balls mystery close to being solved
Scientists rule out possibility that jelly-like marbles which fell in Dorset garden could be living materialThey have provoked much speculation — some serious, many tongue-in-cheek.But scientists...
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Occupy Bristol camp cleared peacefully
Police, bailiffs and council workers clear College Green in Bristol, after most of the campers decided to leave voluntarilyThe largest British Occupy camp outside London has been cleared.Police,...
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Northern Ireland minister criticises health trusts' response to hospital bug
Edwin Poots launches independent investigation into outbreak of pseudomonas infection that killed three babiesHealth authorities in Northern Ireland failed to respond rapidly to the outbreak of a...
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