David Cameron has pledged to give Britain more power over implementing EU business regulations affecting the UK, should the Conservatives come to power next year.

Crews at fire stations are hitting back at plans to make cut frontline jobs, which they say will put fire-fighters' lives at risk and reduce their ability to respond to 999 calls.

A tribunal claimant faces a bill for costs after the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) found recently that she had lied about a claim that she had been racially abused by her manager, a ruling described as "monumental" by the defendant's

The MP who suggested names should be banned from job applications to prevent discrimination has stood by her proposal despite it attracting fierce criticism from the HR profession.

British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh will without pay for a month and has called on staff to consider taking unpaid leave, to counter huge losses announced last week.

About 200 parents, teachers, students and community activists participated in aspirited community summit at Roxbury Community College in Boston May 14. Theysaid no to Mayor Thomas Menino and the Boston School Committee's racistplan to return the city to segregated, "neighborhood"

A group of demonstrators, about half of them young students, gathered inNew York's Times Square on May 17 to commemorate the Naqba, or calamity,wreaked upon the Palestinian people. It was on that same date in 1948 thatIsrael began its occupation

Home foreclosures soared in April to a record-high rate. One of every 374homes, or 342,000 homes in the United States, received a foreclosure filing: anotice of default, auction or sale notice, or bank repossession. Filings wereup 32 percent from April

The cruelty of capitalism is clear as more than 5.7 million people in the U.S.have lost their jobs in the last 18 months and hundreds of thousands of homesare foreclosed every month. Now New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has

By outlawing a new political party from an upcoming June 7 ballot, rulingcircles in the Spanish regime are exposing their links to the 36-year-longfascist reign of Francisco Franco. Their latest anti-democratic step involvedfraudulent charges to prevent the newly formed InternationalInitiative—Solidarity

Once again the military budget is rising, dashing hopes that the newadministration would reverse the course of the Bush years. As many as 100,000troops are being added to the military, with 22,000 slated to go toAfghanistan. The annual budget of

In solidarity with an international conference called by formerly colonizedcountries at the United Nations here in New York, the Bail Out the PeopleMovement has called for a People's Economic Summit on May 31.