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Nearly half of young black people in Britain are unemployed. This stark figure comes in a new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think-tank.

The Edlington case has reopened the debates around the nature of childhood, "broken Britain", and the role of the state in keeping children safe.

Tamils exiled from Sri Lanka are holding a referendum on self determination. Tamils in Britain will vote this weekend

Supporters of the English Defence League (EDL) and the British National Party (BNP) laid siege to Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, last Saturday.

Britain’s recession has officially ended—by the narrowest possible statistical margin. The economy grew by just 0.1 percent in the three months to December.

26 January is Australia Day, or what indigenous rights activists prefer to call Invasion Day. British colonialism brought dispossession and destruction to indigenous people – and this still very much part of the daily reality of indigenous Australians.

A scab "union" has been set up at British Airways to undermine the cabin crew’s strike ballot.

Child poverty in Britain was rocketing even before the recession, new research has shown.

British National Party (BNP) member Terence Gavan was jailed last week for 11 years after police found 54 improvised explosive devices, including nail bombs and 12 firearms, at his home in West Yorkshire.

The future course of the British and the world economies are shrouded in obscurity. But figures released last week give us a proper measure of the magnitude of what has already happened.

The fact that the US has allowed Gordon Brown to host a summit on 28 January about the supposed threat that Yemen poses to the world is obviously of immense satisfaction to the New Labour government.

"The British were in South Yemen, then part of South Arabia, for 139 years – in Aden and parts of the protectorate. The war for independence from Britain was won in 1967.