Editorial
No excuse for drone killings
Foreign Minister Alistair Burt's admission that the Cameron government has "supported" a survey of attitudes to US drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas amounts to a tacit admission of British involvement.
Features
The Nigel buildings rent strike
As Britain faces a new housing crisis we can learn from an occasion when tenants banded together to beat their landlord - and won new council housing
The truth about universal credit
Iain Duncan Smith's brainchild came into force at the end of last month. It's bad news for almost everyone
World
EU bids to make creditors pay for bank bailouts
Tuesday 14 May 2013
EU finance ministers launched a bid today to shift the costs of bank bailouts from taxpayers to creditors.
Airline workers strike over EU-mandated pay cuts
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Croatia airlines pilots and cabin staff went on strike today over salary cuts and layoffs demanded by the EU.
World news in brief
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Workers get right to form trade unions
Monday 13 May 2013
Bangladesh's government agreed today to allow garment workers to form trade unions without prior permission from factory owners.
Greek ministers ban teachers' strike with 'extreme' junta law
Monday 13 May 2013
Greek civil servants' unions have called a 24-hour strike for tomorrow against the government's decision to use emergency powers to prevent protesting teachers from disrupting university entrance exams this month.
Rightwingers win most votes but not a majority
Monday 13 May 2013
Bulgaria's main centre-right party gained the most votes in the country's general election today.
Australia puts off planned foreign aid cash boost
Monday 13 May 2013
Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said today that he is putting off for two years a long-standing pledge to increase foreign aid spending to 0.5 per cent of GDP.
Workers rally against fisherman killing
Monday 13 May 2013
Hundreds of workers gathered outside the Philippine embassy in Taipei today to protest at the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine coastguard in disputed waters.
Sharif and Muslim League poised to return to power
Monday 13 May 2013
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif looked poised to return to office with a resounding election victory today.