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British D-Day veterans are said to have faced a battle against time to fill in the paperwork needed to ensure they can attend the 70th anniversary commemorations of the World War Two landing in Normandy. About 900 members of the British Normandy Veterans' Association are due to attend the events.

The announcement that teachers are to hold a national strike in England and Wales in June over pay and workload issues attracts comment. The Guardian says the vote at the National Union of Teachers' conference was accompanied by an "acrimonious debate"over the prospect of more aggressive action.

The confirmed death toll from the South Korean ferry that capsized last week has passed 100, as divers recovered more bodies from the sunken hull. A total of 104 people are now known to have died, but another 198 are missing, presumed trapped inside the vessel.

The new federal courthouse in Salt Lake City was opened last week A man accused of robbery and assault was shot and killed in a Salt Lake City court after he lunged at a witness giving evidence. Siale Angilau, 25, died in hospital after being shot several times by a US marshal in front of the jury at the new federal courthouse.

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In this Article, we Dialoged on many issues Teachers faces in their Respective Schools. Here are series of Questions that was Asked? How many hours do teachers in England work? Teachers' unions have warned about excessive workloads and complained about staff being put under too much pressure.

Police were called to the property on Sunday evening. Detectives are investigating the death of a two-year-old girl in Fife. Officers were called to a house in Kelty at about 18:30 on Sunday night after reports of "concern for a child" .

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has condemned the conduct of some of the crew of the ferry that sank last week, calling it "akin to murder". Ms Park said that those to blame would have to take "criminal and civil" responsibility for their actions. Divers are continuing to recover bodies from the ferry, as they gain access to more of the submerged hull.

The prime minister has said Britain needs to be "more confident" about its Christian faith David Cameron risks causing "alienation" in society by saying Britain is a "Christian country", a group of public figures has warned. Author Sir Terry Prachett was among those who signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph.making the claim. The UK should be "more confident about our status as a Christian country", Mr Cameron has said.

The world is facing a wine shortage, with global consumer demand already significantly outstripping supply, a report has warned. The research by America's Morgan Stanley financial services giant says demand for wine "exceeded supply by 300m cases in 2012". It describes this as "the deepest shortfall in over 40 years of records". Last year, production also dropped to its lowest levels in more than four decades. Global production has been steadily declining since its peak in 2004, when supply outweighed demand by about 600m cases.

"From the first time I started to love a Chinese man, hiding became part of my life," says American Jocelyn Eickenburg. She had moved to Shanghai in 2003 to be with her now-husband Jun Yu. "In the past, students had been expelled for dating or marrying foreigners. We didn't know what would happen if the university administration found out, so we told no-one he was living off-campus with me," she says. A foreign woman with a Chinese man is a rare pairing. latestarticlesbyiykemandela.blogspot.com Drop your COMMENT Below...

The names of almost 50 people from Britain who have links to al-Shabab - and related organisations - have been established by the BBC. Most of those on the list travelled to Somalia to fight or attempted to do so. Somali-based militants al-Shabab carried out the deadly attack on the Westgate mall in neighbouring Kenya. Lawyers for the family of one British recruit known to have died in Somalia are investigating whether he was killed in a raid involving western military. Al-Shabab is fighting to impose a brutal version of Islamic law on the country and the group is linked to al-Qaeda. Fate unknown The 47 names compiled by the BBC are based on a combination of sources, including public records from courts in the UK and abroad, and further first-hand research and accounts. It is not a complete list of people from the UK who are suspected of having gone to fight because it is impossible to establish or estimate with any certainty how many Westerners have taken up arms in Somalia. T...

Research by a British scientist has concluded that the legendary Himalayan yeti may in fact be a sub-species of brown bear. DNA tests on hair samples carried out by Oxford University genetics professor Bryan Sykes found that they matched those from an ancient polar bear. He subjected the hairs to the most advanced tests available. He says the most likely explanation for the myth is that the animal is a hybrid of polar bears and brown bears. Prof Sykes told the BBC that there may be a real biological animal behind the yeti myth. "I think this bear, which nobody has seen alive,... may still be there and may have quite a lot of polar bear in it," he said. "It may be some sort of hybrid and if its behaviour is different from normal bears, which is what eyewitnesses report, then I think that may well be the source of the mystery and the source of the legend." Prof Sykes conducted the DNA tests on hairs from two unidentified animals, one from Ladakh - in northern I...

Chief Edem Duke, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, on Thursday, said the ministry would strengthen its partnership with Britain to boost creativity in the country. He made the disclosure when Martin Davidson, the Chief Executive Officer of British Council, visited him in Abuja. He stressed the need for both countries to establish a platform for exchange of talents as way of harnessing the potential in the countries’ creative industry. Duke said, "the young Nigerians coming out of school will need such a platform to express their creative talents." The minister requested the assistance of Britain in the areas of expertise for the skills acquisition centre under construction in Calabar and in restoring Nigeria’s theatres and monuments. He also stressed the need for a partnership that would assist in creating job opportunities for youths, as well as transform the creative industry into a major income earner for the country. "We must begin to ...

Yangon - Myanmar's president pardoned 56 political prisoners on Tuesday, an amnesty apparently timed to highlight the government's reforms ahead of a regional summit as well as important negotiations with a rebel group at home. President Thein Sein ordered the prisoners' release just ahead of a forum in Brunei to be attended by leaders from across Southeast Asia and the Pacific. At the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, Myanmar is expected to face tough questions about ongoing sectarian violence that has targeted Muslims. It has become a pattern for prisoner amnesties in Myanmar to coincide with high-profile international meetings as a way of highlighting the nominally civilian government's reforms since taking office after years of absolute military rule. A member of the government's political prisoner scrutiny committee, Ye Aung, said those released on Tuesday included several ethnic minorities. Among those freed were more than a dozen ethnic Kach...

Labour has demanded an apology from the Daily Mail after the newspaper said using a photo of Ed Miliband's father's grave had been an "error of judgement". The admission came after the Labour leader accused the Mail of lying by claiming the late Marxist academic Ralph Miliband had "hated Britain". Mail deputy editor Jon Steafel said the picture was removed from its website after Mr Miliband complained to him. But he told the BBC's Newsnight programme he stood by the reporting. Analysis Ed Miliband's anger at the Daily Mail was clear enough. There is no sure-fire way of knowing, though, how many voters share his outrage. The party says a webpage inviting comments in support of Miliband's position has garnered some 16,000 messages. The number of complaints to the PCC though is, so far, dwarfed by some previous rows about press conduct. The sight of a clearly upset Miliband may have grabbed voters' attention in a way few speeches could mange. No...

Defence lawyers have demanded forensic evidence be re-examined in the retrial of two suspects over the 2007 murder of Briton Meredith Kercher in Italy. American Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty but acquitted on appeal in 2011. But that ruling was overturned in March by Italy's highest court, amid strong criticism of the way the appeals court had dismissed important DNA evidence. The suspects have always insisted they are innocent. Neither was in court. The second appeals hearing is being held at a court in the central Italian city of Florence. The appellate court is expected to re-examine forensic evidence to determine whether Ms Knox and her ex-boyfriend helped kill the 21-year-old British student, while the two women shared an apartment in Perugia. At the first session on Monday defence lawyers called for new tests to be carried out on DNA on the alleged murder weapon and semen stains from the crime scene. Lawyers for Ms Knox and M...

The British diplomat Robert Ford, who has died aged 90, was captured by communist troops in Tibet in 1950 and spent five years being re-educated. Michael Bristow looks back at this pivotal moment in his life. On the day he was released by the Chinese, Mr Ford was taken to the border with Hong Kong, then still a British colony, and told to walk across the rickety railway bridge that then separated the two territories - and divided the worlds of communism and capitalism. "I wondered whether I would get across the bridge - I didn't know whether I would get a bullet in my back," is how Mr Ford remembered that final, stressful journey to freedom. He did get across the bridge, and went on to forge a new career as a British diplomat. But the fear, loneliness and uncertainly of being re-educated by Chinese communist interrogators stayed with him for the rest of his life. Caught while escaping Robert Ford was born in Staffordshire in 1923. He served in the air force during Wo...

International police body Interpol has issued a wanted persons notice for Briton Samantha Lewthwaite, at Kenya's request. Ms Lewthwaite is the widow of one of the four suicide bombers who attacked London on 7 July 2005. Known colloquially as the "white widow", she has been linked with Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab. The group was behind the attack on the Westgate shopping complex in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, at the weekend. The assault and subsequent four-day siege left at least 67 people dead. An Interpol statementsaid the 29-year-old was "wanted by Kenya on charges of being in possession of explosives and conspiracy to commit a felony dating back to December 2011". The Interpol alert, known as a "Red Notice", requires member countries to detain the suspect pending extradition procedures. Interpol did not link the warrant to the Nairobi attack, but it comes after much speculation linking Ms Lewthwaite to events at the Westgate comp...

Three British nationals were killed in Saturday's attack on a shopping centre in the Kenyan capital Nairobi - and that number is likely to rise, the Foreign Office has said. Sixty-eight people have been killed, and between 10 and 15 attackers and some hostages remain in the building. Prime Minister David Cameron called it "an absolutely sickening and despicable attack of appalling brutality". He is cutting short a visit to Balmoral to chair an emergency meeting later. Military spokesman Col Cyrus Oguna said most hostages in the Westgate shopping centre had been freed, but about 10 were still in the part of the building controlled by the militants. Others may still be hiding inside, he said, and more bodies could be discovered as the building is cleared. On Sunday evening the Kenya National Disaster Operation Centre tweeted that "this will end tonight", and gunfire has been heard during the night. The next of kin of the dead British nationals have been inf...