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Can a City Break Be Responsible?

Lara Solomon | Posted 31.12.2012 | UK Style
Read More: Holiday Ideas, Holidays, Travel, UK World, Traveling, City Breaks, UK Lifestyle, UK Travel, UK Style News
Lara Solomon

Most people when they think of taking a responsible/eco/green holiday immediately think it has to be in the countryside, not the city, but that just isn't true. Cities have the same challenges with the environment and local communities as the countryside does.... You can have a great holiday anywhere in the world that is also a responsible holiday.

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Tackling Inequality: Giving Children a Better Future

Jasmine Whitbread | Posted 01.01.2013 | UK
Read More: Mdgs, Poverty, Save the Children, Children, Inequality, United Nations, UK Impact, UK Politics, Millennium Development Goals, World, Impact, UK News
Jasmine Whitbread

The Millenium Development Goals are a story of success. But they have also served to highlight some of the world's most persistent challenges, most notably the scourge of inequality.

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Meet Koshik, The Elephant Who Can Speak Korean (VIDEO)

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 02.11.2012 | UK
Read More: Koshik the Elephant, Video, Korean, UK News, Elephants, UK World, Talking Animals, UK Science, UK Weird News, Elephant Speaks Korean, Koshik, UK News

Scientists have discovered an elephant that can speak Korean. But Koshik, who talks by putting his trunk in his mouth, has a vocabulary of just fiv...

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Freed: Greek Journalist Who Printed 2,000 Names Of Alleged 'Tax Evaders'

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 01.11.2012 | UK
Read More: Greek Journalism, Amnesty Internation, Costas Vaxevanis, UK News, Free Press, UK World, Greek-Journalist-Arrested, Greek Journalist Acquitted, UK News

A Greek journalist who published the names of more than 2,000 fellow citizens who keep their money in Swiss bank accounts has been acquitted of violat...

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Extradited Brit Pleads Guilty To Aiding Attempt To Sell Arms To Iran

PA | Posted 01.01.2013 | UK
Read More: Christopher Tappin Trial News, UK News, Arms Iran, Christopher Tappin Guilty, Christopher Tappin, UK World, Iran Arms, US-UK Extradition, UK News

Extradited Briton Christopher Tappin's guilty plea over arms dealing charges is "the beginning of the end" of the family's ordeal, his wife has said t...

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No Mere 'Talking Shop' - the High Level Panel Could Save Children's Lives

Justin Byworth | Posted 30.12.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Honduras, World Vision, Midwives, Afghanistan, Children, David Cameron, Millennium Development Goals, UK Impact, World, UK Politics News
Justin Byworth

Involving children in the discussions that affect them truly changes the outcomes. Ensuring that those discussions are focused on the most poor and the most vulnerable will guarantee that this week's meeting has the lasting effects on children's lives that those gathered must surely want.

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The Solution on Iran Enigma Might Have Come From an Unexpected Place

David Amess | Posted 23.12.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: PMOI/MEK, United States, European Parliament, Maryam Rajavi, UK, Iran, World, UK Politics News
David Amess

The recent victory of the main Iranian opposition movement, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) that succeeded in September in gett...

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Five Things They Don't Tell You About Drone Strikes

Mehdi Hasan | Posted 29.12.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: War on Terror, Counterterrorism, Drones, Barack Obama, Pakistan Drone Attacks, World, UK Politics, UK Politics News
Mehdi Hasan

Forget guilt or innocence, if you happen to be a Pakistani male aged, say 18-34, walking down the same street as a terror suspect, you're fair game.

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Husband Sues 'Beautiful' Wife For Being Ugly

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 29.10.2012 | UK
Read More: UK World, Divorce, Poll, China-Laws, UK Law, Chinese Wife Sues, Weird China, China, Divorce Cases, UK News

Divorces can get pretty ugly, especially when the reason is your looks. A mysterious story, apparently emanating from a court case in northern Chin...

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Veterans Gather For 70th Anniversary Of El Alamein (PICTURES)

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 27.10.2012 | UK
Read More: UK Military, Erwin Rommel, UK Army, UK News, UK World, World War Two, Field Marshal Montgomery, El Alamein, World War II, UK News

Veterans of the Battle of El Alamein gathered on Saturday for a special service to mark its 70th anniversary. The evensong at Westminster Abbey in ...

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Violence In Syria Breaks Eid Ceasefire (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 27.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Car Bomb, Human Rights, UK News, Eid Al-Adha, UK World, Syria Violence, Eid, Syria, Video, UK News

Bombings and fighting broke out on Friday in Syria, violating a weekend-long peace pact between government forces and rebels to allow celebration of M...

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Malala: The Family's Answer to Bullets is Books

Penny Marshall | Posted 26.12.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Taliban, Malala Yousafzai, Malala, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, UK Education, UK Impact, UK World, UK Schools, UK Universities & Education News
Penny Marshall

Seeing parents visit their sick child in hospital always reminds us all of how fragile life can be. But as the parents of 15-year-old Malala Yousoufzai visit their daughter I am also reminded of how strong the human spirit can be.

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Tappin Awaits Plea Bargain Result

PA | Posted 26.10.2012 | UK
Read More: UK News, UK World, Christopher Tappin, Elaine Tappin, Plea Bargain, Extradition, UK News

A plea deal between extradited Briton Christopher Tappin and US prosecutors is the beginning of his "swift and safe return" to the UK, his wife has sa...

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Eid Marked Across Muslim World (PICTURES)

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 26.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Religion, Islam, UK News, Mecca, Pilgrimage, UK World, Eid Mubarak, Eid, Hajj, Eid Al-Adha, Muslim, UK Religion, Video, UK News

Friday marks the beginning of an important three-day holiday for Muslims across the world with millions across the world joining together to pray, wor...

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'I Can't, I'm Done, I Give Up'

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 26.10.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Video, Felicia Garcia, UK World, Bullying, Suicide, Teen Suicide, International Students, World News, UK Universities & Education News

A teenager threw herself under a train in front of her horrified classmates because she was being bullied at school, it has emerged. Felicia Garcia...

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Afghanistan Suicide Bomber Kills 37 During Eid Prayers

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 26.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Suicide Bomb, UK News, UK World, Afghanistan Bombing, Afghanistan, Eid Mubarak, Suicide Attack, Eid Al-Adha, Video, UK News

A suicide bomb attack outside a mosque has reportedly killed at least 40 people in northern Afghanistan, according to officials. The bomber struck ...

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Tribunal Probes Execution of 20,000 Political Prisoners in Iran

Peter G Tatchell | Posted 24.12.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: UK World., Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Human Rights Trial, UK Impact, Amnesty, Iran Tribunal, Iran, Iran Political Prisoners, UK Politics News
Peter G Tatchell

In one very bloody seven month period, from August 1988 to February 1989, at least 4,500 people, some of them teenagers, were executed, according to Amnesty International. This works out at an average execution rate of one person almost every hour for over 200 days.

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Who Would Want To Live In The World's Thinnest House? (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 24.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Architecture, Video, UK News, UK World, Poland, World's Thinnest House, Thinnest House in the World, UK News

Almost everyone has dreamed of owning the largest house in the world, resplendent with gardens, multiple wings and areas to entertain friends and fami...

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Quantum Leap: A Father's Faith

Yassin Alsalman | Posted 21.12.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Son, Children, Ghida Fakhry, Travel, Future, Media, Past, Facebook, Beard, Larry David, Canada, Leap, Wife, Michael Jackson, Social, East, Arabia, Father, Al Jazeera, Faith, Bad, Flashback, Twitter, Of, World, Falling Down, Dubai, Montreal, Everywhere, West, Blame the Label, Identity, Immigrant, International, Citizen, Hiphop, UK Entertainment News
Yassin Alsalman

Times are different now. We are a distracted generation. The tension is rising in our nations, as it did during our parents generation. We have been witness to media wars, and wars through media.

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Women's Forum - Deauville

Albina Du Boisrouvray | Posted 22.12.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Women Campaigners, Ngo, Gender Equality, UK Impact, UK World, Fxb, International Development, UK Lifestyle, UK Lifestyle News
Albina Du Boisrouvray

Gender equality, for example, is at the heart of the achievement of Millennium Goals. It is a prerequisite for overcoming hunger, poverty and disease. Giving women an equal voice in the decisions which affect their life and that of their families means giving them the key to their autonomy.

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Soldiers' Families Can Claim Damages, Court Rules

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 19.10.2012 | UK
Read More: UK Army, UK News, Iraq, UK World, Ministry of Defence, Court of APPEAL, UK Armed Forces, Mod, UK News

Relatives of soldiers killed fighting in Iraq can claim for damages for negligence against the Government, senior judges said on Friday. Lawyers re...

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Dr Karadzic Doesn't Like Me, He Blames the Messenger

Penny Marshall | Posted 17.12.2012 | UK
Read More: War Crimes, Serbia, Sarajevo, Bosnia, Ratko Mladic, Radovan Karadzic, Srebrenica, Itn, World, Penny Marshall, Radovan Karadzic Trial, ITV News, UK TV, UK News
Penny Marshall

It's not the first time and I'm sure it won't be the last time that Dr Karadzic mentions me in the dock.

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Terror Suspect 'Plotted To Bomb New York Federal Reserve'

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 17.12.2012 | UK
Read More: UK World, Terrorism, Bomb Plot, Federal Reserve, Fbi, Federal Reserve New York, Terrorism New York City, New York, Fbi Sting, Video, UK News

US authorities have arrested a man they say was plotting to attack the Federal Reserve building in Lower Manhattan, close to where the 9/11 attacks hi...

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Charlie Lindlar

Gaddafi 'Killed By Grenade And Bayonet'

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 17.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Libya, Video, UK News, Human Rights, UK World, Muammar Gaddafi, Human Rights Watch, Colonel Gaddafi, UK News

A new report into the final hours leading to Muammar Gaddafi's death nearly one year ago has claimed that the Libyan dictator was killed in captivity ...

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How Sport Relief Is Saving and Changing Lives

Christine Bleakley | Posted 16.12.2012 | Home
Read More: Christine Bleakley, Poverty, UK Impact, Africa, Charity, UK World, Sport Relief, Comic Relief, Daybreak, UK TV, UK Celebrity, Video, Home News
Christine Bleakley

As I listened to the 400 pupils at Kasasa Primary and Junior school on the outskirts of the Ugandan capital Kampala sing their Sanitation Anthem and do their morning hand checks, it was obvious that once tangible measures were in place for them to use, these children would be taught the importance of using them and taught it well. A combination of the humble toilet and access to clean water made possible by people taking part in Sport Relief and the UK government's decision to back them has the power to bring about long term change that can educate and empower the most vulnerable.

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