Men barred from selling women's lingerie
The Saudi labour ministry has warned shops selling lingerie that from June it will begin inspections to ensure men are not serving customers. Shops that fail to comply wi...
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From Fleet Street to Sesame Street
Piers Morgan's post-Daily Mirror jobs portfolio has been anything but predictable. He has lurched from writing best-selling diaries and fronting TV programmes to rent-a-l...
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Minimum pay to rise 30p an hour
The minimum wage will increase by 30p to £5.35 an hour from October, the government confirmed today.
The rate for workers aged 18 to 21 will rise by 20p to £4....
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Gaza gunfights point to fears over PA salaries
Six people were wounded today in fighting in Gaza between Palestinian police and gunmen demanding jobs.
Gunmen belonging mainly to Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades block...
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Justice for all
Pale, male, middle-aged and middle-class: that's the predictable palette of our legal profession. So it's a pleasant surprise to meet a young, black, single mother from s...
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Schools to use phonics to teach reading
All schoolchildren in England will be taught to read using the "back-to-basics" method of phonics from September this year, the government announced today.
The move come...
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Site and sound
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www.itunes.co.uk
Best for: buying music
First, in 2001, came the iPod. Then in April 2003, Apple launched the iTunes Music Store. It's easy to forget now but at that...
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Cities' leading role in economic growth
A year ago our prime minister and his EU counterparts launched a strategy for growth and jobs which aims to enhance Europe's economic competitiveness by promoting innovat...
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Early computer skills
In its report, Harnessing Technology, transforming learning and children's services, published last year, the government set out its strategic approach to teaching inform...
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Dole blues
Up to 300,000 students demonstrated throughout France yesterday against a government measure designed to tackle the biggest scourge of the national economy - the 23% unem...
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