A government guided by common sense would respond to news that publicly owned Royal Mail has increased profits to £403 million by scrapping plans to flog off the service.
Wales TUC president sets out the achievements of Welsh workers over the past year - and looks to the battles ahead
Interview with Jeremy Scahill, author of a chilling new exposé of the US's worldwide war without end
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Manhattan on Monday to protest against the killing of gay man Mark Carson in Greenwich Village on Saturday.
US computer giant Apple avoids paying billions of dollars in US income taxes, a Senate investigation declared on Monday.
North Korea released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat today after the seizure had been the subject of diplomatic exchanges between the two governments.
A monstrous tornado at least half a mile wide roared through Oklahoma City's suburbs on Monday, flattening entire neighbourhoods and destroying a primary school.
Indonesian rescuers recovered another four bodies from a collapsed underground room at a giant US-owned gold and copper mine bringing the confirmed death toll to 21, mine officials said today.
Guatemala's highest court overturned a genocide conviction against former dictator Efrain Rios Montt on Monday.
Philippines officials said today that they had protested to China over the presence of a warship, two surveillance vessels and fishing boats off a shoal occupied by its army in the disputed Spratly Islands.
Police arrested four people during a second day of unrest in the Stockholm suburb of Husby.