George Pitcher meets the Rev Russell Tague rector of the Esk Parishes in the Border Country north of Carlisle and learns about the local eduction crisis.

Record numbers of Alevel students including thousands with straightAs will be rejected from university this summer as applications soar in the recession.

For Marisol Becerra and other kids growing up in the Little Village neighborhood in Chicago, the smokestack from the Crawford coal-burning power plant is part of the gritty, industrial landscape called home. Located between a major highway, rail line and

On a chilly evening in late May, hundreds of Porto Alegre, Brazil, residents packed into the Cecores gymnasium of the working-class neighborhood of Restinga for their yearly regional Participatory Budgeting (PB) assembly. Mayor José Fogaça and his PB team sat

FARRAH Fawcett was not a great actress. But she had an impact on popular culture out of all proportion to her acting ability. Posters of her sold in the millions.

THOSE who thought the passing of the late great Ian Rushbrook would bring a change in style, outlook and direction at the iconoclastic Edinburgh-based Personal Assets Trust wi

THE loss of a loved one is a harrowing and life-changing experience - the last thing anyone who has experienced this should face is deportation.

Three weeks ago I did an article on Media Development in the Context of Development Communication. The essence of that article was the fact that donors are now reconsidering supporting specific media directly so they can devote most of their

THE more things seem to change, the more they remain stubbornly the same.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) today launches a series of radio programmes in the Central African Republic (CAR) as part of an outreach campaign aimed at informing the country's population about the court's mandate and activities.

This daily press review is compiled by the Information Section of the Public Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

The Botswana Congress Party (BCP) has launched a complaint with the office of the Ombudsman accusing President Ian Khama and the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) of abusing the national television station, Btv.

SCOTLAND'S justice secretary has upped the pressure on Westminster to devolve control over firearms in a letter to new Home Secretary Alan Johnson.

A THIRD British soldier has been killed over the weekend in southern Afghanistan, bringing to 174 the total number of UK services personnel killed during the deployment in the

THE Ultimate Answer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been given a new lease of life, thanks to the Scottish Parliament. In the Douglas Adams novel, a supercom

A BRITISH diplomatic compound is close to being seized by the Iranian authorities, one of the country's hardline military commanders has warned.

THE Scottish Government has defended spending almost £500,000 on its "National Conversation" over the future of the constitution.

A Dunkin' Donuts/Baskin-Robbins in the North Side Uptown neighborhood ordered closed last week after a major infestation of flying insects was found inside will reopen Monday after passing re-inspection.

A 25-year-old man was ordered held without bond Monday on charges he shot four people and fired at police officers outside a South Side nightclub over the holiday weekend.