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Consumer sentiment hits record low
Consumer confidence hit a record low this month as people became increasingly despondent about their own personal finances, a survey showed on Thursday.
Study says Britain should scrap zero VAT rate
Britain should abolish zero and reduced rates of VAT and use the revenue raised more directly to help the poor, a study commissioned by the Institute for Fiscal Studies says.
CAP calls on churches to help free UK from debt
Debt counselling charity Christians Against Poverty launches the UK's largest debt awareness day
Faith and deeds must go together, says missiologist
One of the world's top missiologists reminded thousands of missionaries on Tuesday that evangelism and social action must go hand in hand if Christians are to fulfil their responsibility of bringing people to salvation in Jesus Christ.
Karadzic taken to Hague for genocide trial
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was taken to a prison cell in The Hague on Wednesday to face trial at a U.N war crimes tribunal on charges of genocide during the 1992-95 Bosnia war.
Centrica to raise household gas prices 35 percent
British Gas-owner Centrica said on Wednesday it would raise gas and electricity prices for households by 35 percent and 9 percent respectively, citing high wholesale gas prices.
Miliband fuels talk of leadership battle
Foreign Secretary David Miliband called for a radical overhaul of Labour party politics on Wednesday, a move commentators interpreted as a potential challenge to the leadership of Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
British NASA hacker to face U.S. trial
A British computer expert faces up to 70 years in jail after losing his fight on Wednesday against extradition to the United States, where he is accused of "the biggest military hack of all time".
Britons say one would rather talk like the Queen
If Britons could choose the way they spoke, most would prefer to sound like the Queen with rocker Ozzy Osbourne's Birmingham accent the most disliked, according to a survey on the wide variety of British accents.
U.N. report shows world AIDS deaths edging down
The number of people killed by AIDS worldwide edged down for a second straight year in 2007 after rising for more than two decades, amid intensified global efforts to fight the disease, a U.N. agency said on Tuesday.
Arctic ice bigger than 2007, but thawing long-term
Arctic sea ice is unlikely to shrink below a 2007 record low this year in a reprieve from the worst predictions of climate change even though new evidence confirms a long-term thaw is under way, experts said.
New AIDS figures show only slight decreases
New figures from the United Nations show very slight progress against the AIDS virus, with a small drop in new infections since 2001 and more people getting treatment for the fatal and incurable virus.
Drugs add 13 years to life of HIV patients
Cocktails of HIV drugs help patients live an average of 13 years longer - if they are lucky enough to get them, researchers reported on Thursday.
Meditation slows AIDS progression: study
Meditation may slow the worsening of AIDS in just a few weeks, perhaps by affecting the immune system, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
Parasitic worms may help fuel AIDS epidemic: study
People infected with parasitic worms may be much more susceptible to the AIDS virus, according to a study published on Tuesday that may help explain why HIV has hit sub-Saharan Africa particularly hard.
Mistrust risks violence, inter-faith meet told
Christians and Muslims mistrust each other so much that a few terrorist attacks could trigger dramatic and violent religious tensions, a Jordanian prince told an interfaith conference on Tuesday.