Providers are called on to do more against “hate pages” on the Web
Internet providers will be expected to do more against violence- and hate-extolling pages on the Internet. A declaration of the European Parliament, which will be submitted to a plenary session in Strasbourg next week, is designed to give a decisive push in this [...]

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Pupils are urged to drop maths
Pupils are being discouraged from taking A-level maths as schools in England chase higher places in the league tables, scientists have claimed.
The Royal Society of Chemistry said that as maths was a difficult subject, schools feared examination failures which would threaten their standings.
Chief executive Richard Pike also said [...]

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The Egyptian authorities have arrested an engineer who works at the country’s nuclear energy agency for spying for Israel, state prosecutors said.
Prosecutor Hisham Badawi told a news conference the Egyptian national had taken reports from his workplace with the aim of exchanging them for money.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen has been in politics for more than 50 years, but at his rally at Porte de Versailles in Paris the crowd greet him as if he was the hottest new act in politics.
Some 5-6,000 people waving flags crammed into the stadium on Sunday to cheer on the National Front leader. The [...]

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Prime Minister John Howard said Friday that people with HIV should not be allowed to migrate to Australia, and that the government was investigating whether it could tighten existing restrictions.
The comments triggered anger among HIV-AIDS workers, who accused Howard of xenophobia and of blaming sufferers for their illness.
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Six bombs exploded in predominantly Shiite sections of the capital Sunday, killing at least 45 people in a renewal of sectarian carnage that set back the U.S. push to pacify Baghdad.
North of Baghdad, two British helicopters crashed after an apparent mid-air collision, killing two service members, U.K. officials said.

The U.S. military announced three U.S. troop [...]

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[Maybe they should do what they did in the UK, bring in immigrant nurses and the pay disputes will stop as they are just happy to be in the UK.-ed]

Over 40,000 Irish nurses are taking industrial action in a row over pay and conditions.
Members of the Irish Nurses Organisation and the Psychiatric Nurses’ Association have [...]

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One commentator recently forecast that by 2015, one in every three Spaniards will be a foreigner.
This startling prediction gives an idea of the number of people moving to Spain.
It also helps to explain, perhaps, why this is such a political hot potato.
There are currently 3.69 million foreigners living in the country – or about 8.4 [...]

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Police arrested nine people and broke up a group involved in smuggling a form of crystal methamphetamine known as “shabu” that was until now practically unknown in Europe.
Those in custody, mostly of Philippine origin, are accused of distributing the drug to members of the Philippine community that live in Barcelona.
Shabu is a type of crystal [...]

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[Why is it only black boys that fail?-ed]
Schools, parents and pupils must do more to improve the attainment of black Caribbean boys, a union has said.
A charter on the issue published by the National Union of Teachers stresses the responsibilities they all have.
It says the boys themselves must develop their own learning and parents must [...]

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