INTRODUCE a wealth tax to avoid mounting cuts to international aid, campaigners urged the government yesterday. It comes ...

A study by the Howard League for Prison Reform shows that there are now more people behind bars than there were when the ...

A TEENAGER has been charged after an attack on an Aberdeen mosque branded a hate crime by Police Scotland. Spital Mosque was ...

Allianz’s offices in Fountain Street were attacked by direct-action group Palestine Action, which is targeting Elbit and ...

OLDER people should have a legal right to access all public services offline, Age UK said today. The charity conducted research on the challenges posed by the shift to a “digital-first” approach in ...

A DAMNING report warned today that crackdowns on the right to protest have become so severe they amount to state repression. The State Of Protest report by the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) ...

Mehdi Karroubi had backed the 2009 presidential candidacy of Mir Hossein Mousavi, who also was put under house arrest in 2011 after calling for demonstrations in support of protests in Egypt and ...

A GERMAN court started hearing a Peruvian farmer’s lawsuit against energy company RWE today, which argues global warming fuelled by the firm’s historical greenhouse gas emissions ultimately poses a ...

“Labour MPs didn’t enter politics to push vulnerable people deeper into poverty. “Week after week, they see in their surgeries the real lives that would be devastated by these cuts. “So the Prime ...

UNIVERSITY of Bradford lecturers have backed strike action in a consultative ballot over plans to axe “at least” 300 jobs. The University and College Union (UCU) says that bosses plan to axe ...

“Instead of pressing on with plans to make the biggest cuts ever seen in Scottish higher education, Peter Mathieson needs to work with UCU, use the university’s reserves and rule out compulsory ...

RIVER Thames weir and lockkeepers are preparing to ballot for strike action over increasing flooding risks linked to understaffing of the system. The GMB union said “budget-driven decisions” are ...