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Glasgow day centres face battle with council Labour-run Glasgow council is rushing through the closure of three of the seven Glasgow day centres. The centres provide support for adults with learning disabilities.

Two years ago this month, mass protests and strikes in Egypt forced out hated dictator Hosni Mubarak.

The government’s attack on benefits could see thousands of people lose their homes. One attack in particular, popularly known as the "bedroom tax", is set to push almost 100,000 social housing tenants into arrears on their rent from this April.

Who will benefit from the new US budget deal?

Anger is growing in Argentina against the government of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner—and two very different social movements are articulating it.

David Willets, the Tories’ universities minister, claimed last week that white working class men need a special campaign to encourage them to go to university.

Once a year, the world’s super-rich come together on the Caribbean island of St Barts.

‘More flooding misery for the North but look on the bright side: daffodils bloom in Cornwall’

Locksmiths in Pamplona in northern Spain are refusing to co-operate in evictions. This is part of a growing backlash across the Spanish state.

Journalists at Southern Weekly newspaper in Guangzhou, China, walked out on strike on Monday of this week over press censorship.

Watching the detectives Five cops investigating phone hacking faced misconduct allegations.

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria sent a defiant message to the opposition last Sunday in his first public speech in six months.