The "Tab Totty" girls posing for the student website should have thought twice says Hannah Betts.

EUROPEAN Union leaders took a small step closer to an agreement on climate change after healing a rift over how to pay the costs - a move hailed by Prime Minister Gordon Brow

BRITAIN is not a happy land. It is a place filled with disgruntlement, anger and resentment. This is about more than anxieties caused by recession. Instead, people have a sens

LOOKING back, the moment the SNP won the Glasgow East by-election last summer was obvious. Visiting the Garrowhill Bowling Club in Baillieston one Saturday morning, Alex Salmo

FILLED to the brim with the purest political motives and unsullied by the expenses scandal, 300 teenagers made history yesterday when they became the first non-MPs to sit in t

THE UK government's chief drugs adviser was forced to quit yesterday in the wake of a row over the dangers of class A drugs.

JUSTICE Secretary Jack Straw has ordered his officials to abandon "simply unacceptable" election cost-cutting measures that would have reduced the number of polling st

SPENDING cuts on education and other key public services could "condemn the Scottish economy to further recession", a trade union leader has warned.

TONY Blair's chances of becoming Europe's first president were either boosted or, more likely, buried last night by French leader Nicolas Sarkozy.

DAVID Miliband is to visit Russia next week in the first such trip by a British foreign secretary for five years.

FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband remained defiant last night over his criticism of the neo-Nazi past of a Tory EU ally as David Cameron demanded he retract his accusations.

FAMILIES who have lost loved ones during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan released hundreds of white balloons in their memory yesterday.

HUNDREDS of people lined the streets for the funeral of a British serviceman killed in Afghanistan.

KYIV, October 30 /UKRINFORM/. The Ukrainian and Russian foreign ministers, Petro Poroshenko and Sergey Lavrov, have discussed in their phone call a broad range of issues of bilateral cooperation. The parties acknowledged that Ukraine-Russia relations have recently gained a new

KYIV, October 30 /UKRINFORM/. Ukraine's Healthcare Ministry has released the latest data on flu-patients and death toll in the country as of Friday, October 30. For today, the number of acute respiratory disease-hit patients is 81,487 people, including 33,500 children.

KYIV, October 30 /UKRINFORM/. The Ukrainian government will apply best efforts to protect Ukraine from the influenza, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said this at a meeting in Ternopil on Friday, UKRINFORM correspondent reports. According to Tymoshenko, the Cabinet outlined

KYIV, October 30 /UKRINFORM/. The Ukrainian Ministry of Emergencies and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in support of bilateral cooperation on natural disaster risk reduction and early recovery. The program envisages financing at

KYIV, October 30 /UKRINFORM/. The European Commission has proposed to the Council to provide macro-financial assistance to Ukraine, in the form of a loan of up to EUR 500 million, reads the Commission's press release, UKRINFORM's own correspondent in Belgium

KYIV, October 30 /UKRINFORM/. All activities within the presidential election campaign have been cancelled after the H1N1 flu epidemic and quarantine were declared in Ukraine, Premier Yulia Tymoshenko has said. As UKRINFORM reported, the government placed nine Ukrainian regions in

KYIV, October 30 /UKRINFORM/. Ukraine is going to hold consultations with UEFA and FIFA on defining the possibility of holding international football matches in view of the H1N1 flu epidemic, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has told a briefing on Friday.