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More jobseekers in London but pay holds up
Layoffs and less job security in the City of London financial sector drove more professionals to look for jobs in June, but City salaries hardly moved from lofty year-ago levels.
Digital revolution could be Olympics' salvation
For the Olympic movement, the digital revolution is armed with a double-edged sword - it has lured the younger generation away from sport but could open up the Olympic experience to a far wider audience.
Bishops in walk to demand world leaders keep promises to poor
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, will join forces with Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, at a rally in Lambeth Palace later today to warn governments around the world that starvation, disease and death will follow unless they keep their pledges to deliver on eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Catholics, Anglicans must grow in unity for more effective mission
The Roman Catholic Church's top official on evangelisation issues, Cardinal Ivan Dias, told Anglicans meeting at the Lambeth Conference this week that the two Churches must work harder on the issues that unite them if both their mission efforts are to be effective.
French MPs end compulsory 35-hour week
France's parliament passed a law on Wednesday that will allow companies to bypass compulsory 35-hour working week limits, effectively burying one of the flagship reforms of the former Socialist government.
Obama speech expected to draw huge crowd in Berlin
U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama travels to Berlin on Thursday to give the only public speech of a week-long foreign tour, an outdoor address on transatlantic ties that is likely to draw tens of thousands.
Obama visits Jerusalem's Western Wall
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made a surprise pre-dawn visit to Jerusalem's Western Wall on Thursday, at the end of a trip aimed at showing his strong support for Israel.
Evangelist Brian Mclaren challenges Lambeth on emerging culture
One of the emerging church's foremost figures, US evangelist Brian Mclaren, challenged the Lambeth Conference earlier this week to speak the Gospel into the world's ever-changing cultures.
Strong quake jolts north Japan
A strong earthquake jolted northern Japan early on Thursday, injuring more than 100 people, trapping hundreds in halted trains and affecting production at some high-tech factories.
China security forces vow to thwart Games threats
Ranks of Chinese paramilitary police swore to prevent terrorist attacks or "political incidents" disrupting the Beijing Olympics in a show of force at the Games' main stadium, a state newspaper reported on Thursday.
WTO talks make 'some progress,' but mood sombre
Urgent talks to salvage a global trade deal made "some progress" in the early hours of Thursday, ministers said, but officials warned the mood was dark behind closed doors at the World Trade Organisation.
Three Hong Kong children jailed for armed holdup
Three Hong Kong children have jailed for more than three years for the armed hold-up of a jewellery shop, a newspaper said on Thursday, with the court saying the stiff sentence was in the public interest.
African cotton farmers hope for trade breakthrough
While besuited government officials slug it out at world trade talks in Geneva this week, African peasant farmers watching their cotton plants grow hope any deal will allow them to farm their way out of poverty.
God Sent Me An Angel
I was walking along a country road one calm and cloudy day. Feeling down about the problems that had seemed to come my way. My pain was very great and my tears I could not hide. And was calling God to help me as I was hurting deep inside
Barbecue of decision
So he Elijah set out from there, and found Elisha son of Shaphat, who was ploughing. There were twelve yoke of oxen ahead of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle over him. He left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, 'Let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.' Then Elijah said to him, 'Go back again; for what have I done to you?' He returned from following him, took the yoke of oxen, and slaughtered them; using the equipment from the
'Fake-death' canoe couple jailed
A woman who helped fake her husband's death in a canoeing accident was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison on Wednesday for her part in a daring scam that deceived even the couple's children.