Harvard University – ranked the best in the world – has seen the number of applications from Britain rise by more than a third in just 12 months, figures show. Other elite Ivy League institutions, including Yale, Columbia and Cornell, have also reported an increase in demand. It is believed […]
The 31,000 elderly and disabled residents in 750 care homes run by Southern Cross face uncertainty over their future after the group ran out of money to pay the rent. The country’s second largest private care home provider, Four Season Health Care, which is also a landlord of Southern Cross […]
David Cameron has triggered a row with military chiefs by insisting that hundreds of British troops must be withdrawn from Afghanistan within weeks. Following the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the Prime Minister is increasingly determined to start bringing the Afghan mission to an end. He has told […]
Britain has offered the US government SAS anti-terrorist units to help hunt down senior al-Qaeda commanders in an attempt to capitalise on information seized in the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed. The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has told the White House that he intends to stand shoulder to […]
A former BBC employee who strongly believes in the ethos of public service broadcasting will be allowed to bring a discrimination case against the corporation under laws designed to protect religious faiths, a tribunal has ruled. The decision effectively puts the broadcaster’s core principle on a par with Christianity. A […]
The killing of Osama bin Laden is a “vigilante” act of “vengeance” that undermines the rule of law, according to leading clerics in the Church of England. Three bishops have added their voices to the debate over the legitimacy of the operation that resulted in the death of the unarmed […]
Over the last decade, 67 Britons were killed in the September 11 attacks in 2001, 26 died in the Bali bombings a year later and 52 lost their lives in the July 7 attacks of 2005. Hundreds of soldiers fighting in Afghanistan have also been killed in a conflict sparked […]