Family advocates are crying foul over recent comments by a school superintendent who derided parents seeking to opt students out of a presentation orchestrated by the ACLU and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). In an e-mail to attorneys at the ACLU,

Anticipating a shift in ad spending from large metro to local newspapers, Mediaspace Solutions announced that it's taking a minority stake in Kaesu, a provider of digital ad platforms to community newspapers.

DAME Vera Lynn and Prime Minister Gordon Brown are among the celebrities and politicians who have contributed recipes to a new Armed Forces cook book.

THE expenses of the BBC's top executives are "entirely justifiable", its director general Mark Thompson said in an extraordinary defence of the corporation's

NETWORK Rail has been rebuked by its regulator for failing to slash six-figure bonuses for senior executives after causing massive delays on the Scotland-London west coast mai

BRITISH taxpayers will have to stump up their "fair share" to fight climate change, Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned, as he announced plans for a £60 billion fund to

HARRODS owner Mohamed al-Fayed said yesterday that he would erect a Michael Jackson memorial at the store which the entertainer said was one of his favourite places.

Having appointed the "cold pragmatist" Mikhail Zurabov to succeed the "sentimental" Viktor Chernomyrdin, Moscow is realizing a strategy to buy up cheap financial and industrial assets in Ukraine, Director of the Institute of Global Strategies Vadym Karasiov told Interfax-Ukraine on

Ukraine has fully fulfilled its duties on the transit and purchase of Russian gas according to the contracts signed in January, President's Envoy on Energy Security Bohdan Sokolovsky has stated, according to Interfax-Ukraine. On the other hand, taking onto account

President Victor Yushchenko held a consultative meeting on preparation of Kyiv to host events of EURO 2012 on Thursday, the president's press office reported. The participants of the meeting, which took place at the reconstruction staff of the 'Olimpiysky' National

The leader of the Front for Change initiative, Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc MP Arseniy Yatseniuk, said that the crisis in Ukraine is escalating, rather than ending, according to Interfax-Ukraine. "I clearly understand that the crisis will continue moving, and, as

National JSC Naftogaz Ukrainy would take part in an open auction on the sale of an 18.296% stake in OJSC Ukraine's Ukrtatnafta (Kremenchuk Oil Refinery in Poltava region), the press secretary of the state holding, Valentyn Zemliansky has told Interfax-Ukraine.

The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX activity

Two new sunspots appeared last week, numbered 1022 and 1023, and both were Cycle 24 spots. 1022 lasted through June 23 and 1023 until June 24. On June 24 geomagnetic indices were unsettled

Steve G0KYA, RadCom's propagation columnist and author, has launched a new blog devoted to amateur radio

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The RSGB reports that the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is moving towards requiring commercially produced, finished amateur radio equipment to conform to international standards for emissions

GARY Player made history by becoming the youngest Open Championship winner when he lifted the Claret Jug at Muirfield in 1959.

LOYALIST paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland yesterday confirmed they have decommissioned their weapons.

HER role as the hectoring host of You Are What You Eat has led her to being loved and loathed in almost equal measure by millions of TV viewers.