
ECONOMY
UK student support may be axed
The Tory government is considering plans to axe financial support for the poorest students as part of widespread cuts to public services and key British institutions.

The Tory government is considering plans to axe financial support for the poorest students as part of widespread cuts to public services and key British institutions.

The Moldovan prime minister quits after being accused of faking his degrees.

A battle over privacy is taking place across the board as Downing Street avoids proposal to strip ministers of surveillance powers.

New US government research shows that female military veterans commit suicide at nearly six times the rate of other women.

The UK’s Court of Appeal has reduced the jail term of a pedophile doctor who was sentenced over sexual abuse of 18 young patients.

A court in France acquits a former IMF chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, of pimping charges.

Interpol suspends 20-million-euro deal with FIFA amid allegations of corruption in the sports body.

A senior Iranian cleric urges support for the Islamic Republic’s nuclear negotiating team involved in talks with the P5+1 states .

A bomb attack is carried out near the Afghan parliament in the capital, Kabul.

The US has spent an average of more than $9 million a day on the ISIL war since last August, the Pentagon says.

Burundi arrests a Rwandan journalist over ‘spying’ allegations.

Saudi airstrikes against Yemen’s Sa’ada Province kill at least 12 civilians and injure 15 others.

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has accused the Conservative-led government of pushing the country towards collapse by playing the English card.

The British Home Office has, for the first time in four years, confirmed the official cap on the recruitment of non-European Union skilled migrant workers.

Iran says it needs $100 billion of investment in its gas industry as updated BP data put the energy superpower’s reserves above those of Russia as the world’s largest.

Russia's Foreign Ministry has voiced serious concern about the US's possible use of force in space.

Pakistan's parliament unanimously passes a resolution to slam India’s recent anti-Islamabad statements.

The Russian premier says Western sanctions have helped Moscow improve its ties with Asian countries.