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Brown urges G8 leaders to pressure oil producers
Next month's G8 summit of wealthy nations should push oil producing nations to increase supply, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday following talks with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.
UK 'must attract more skilled workers'
The new points-based immigration system will not be enough to ensure sufficient numbers of high-skilled workers come to Britain, while a hostile atmosphere will deter others, according to a report.
Scottish resilience in play as house prices fall
Scotland's housing market is cooling like elsewhere in Britain, but with the nation's most affordable mortgages experts think it may escape the worst of the property downturn as it did in the 1990s.
Heathrow service said a national embarrassment
Service levels at London's Heathrow Airport are a "national embarrassment", the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Monday.
Parents told how to teach drinking to children
Parents are to be given advice about how much alcohol their children can safely drink, under government plans aimed at curbing binge drinking.
Mortgage approvals tumble to record low
Approvals for new home loans in fell to a record low in April, official figures showed on Monday, raising fears that the housing market is in for a protracted and painful slowdown.
World Refugee Sunday to rouse church conscience on refugee issues
Churches around the globe will unite in prayer on "World Refugee Sunday 2008" later this month in an effort to remember the millions who have been displaced.
Algeria Muslim body slams Christian evangelists
Algeria hit back on Saturday at foreign accusations minority Christians are harassed, saying Protestant evangelicals were secretly trying to divide Algerians to colonise the mainly Muslim north African country.
Obama resigns from controversial church
Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama has resigned from Trinity United Church of Christ, his spokesman said on Saturday, further distancing himself from a source of controversy as he gears up for the general election.
Egyptian Christians, Muslims clash, killing one
One Egyptian Muslim was killed and four Christians were wounded and on Saturday in a clash over disputed land near a Christian monastery in central Egypt, security sources said.
Compassion prepares for world food crisis
Just weeks after the natural disasters that ravaged across Burma and China last month, new concerns are being raised about the appearance of a new, powerful and quickly growing "tsunami" in the form of an unprecedented global food crisis.
Congregations should offer more feedback on sermons - book
A new book from the Church of England's official publishers recommends that churchgoers offer their priests more constructive criticism on their sermons.
Bradford & Bingley CEO steps down
The chief executive of Bradford & Bingley quit on Sunday and the embattled lender announced plans for an unscheduled trading update, less than a month after surprising investors with an emergency cash call.
Zimbabwe's Mugabe in Rome for food summit
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe flew into Rome for a global food summit on Sunday, his first official trip abroad since elections condemned by Western and opposition leaders as fraudulent.
Soaring living costs cloud UN climate talks
U.N.-led climate talks kick off on Monday in Germany with experts trying to forge a global warming pact facing a new challenge from critics who say climate change measures are partly to blame for higher food and energy prices.
Macedonia PM wins election in shadow of violence
Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski claimed victory in Sunday's parliamentary election, a vote marred by alleged fraud and shootings that could cloud the country's European Union ambitions.