Full Coverage: United Kingdom

29.07.2005 The UK's biggest power companies are failing to meet the challenge of climate change, says a new report.

29.07.2005 The anti-Muslim backlash has intensified in the three weeks following the London bombings.

29.07.2005 The bomb attacks in London are the latest manifestation of a rooted culture of ignorance and intolerance in the Muslim world. Only reform can save Islam from itself, says Maruf Khwaja.

28.07.2005 The IRA said today that it will end its armed campaign and resume disarmament, but would not disband.

28.07.2005 The Rainbow Warrior slipped into the harbour of the world's biggest coal port this morning and dropped anchor to shut down coal exports for five hours in Newcastle, Australia.

28.07.2005 According to a study by the University of Zaragoza in Spain, 6 out of the top 10 European cities for e-governance come from the United Kingdom.

28.07.2005 Omar Deghayes is a British resident who is being held in Guantánamo Bay on evidence that is demonstrably false, says lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, three years after Deghayes was seized and disappeared into the ‘legal black hole’ of Camp Delta.

28.07.2005 An Environment Agency call for more ASBOs to be issued against environmentally damaging businesses is no substitute for prosecution and heavy punishment, Friends of the Earth said today.

28.07.2005 The Irish Republican Army is expected to release a statement today announcing an end to the armed struggle in Northern Ireland, according to newspaper reports.

27.07.2005 The London bomb blasts give still more impact to Talking to Terrorists at the Royal Court Theatre, reports Daniel Nelson.
It is a powerful piece of documentary theatre – scripted from interviews with real people – the title of which comes from the mouth of the Mo Mowlem character: “Talking to terrorists is the only way to beat them."

27.07.2005 Travellers flying this summer are being prompted by the government to donate money to carbon cutting schemes to ‘offset’ the cost to the environment.

26.07.2005 Were the G8's promises on climate change hot air? Watch the webcast of a discussion with Charlie Kronick, chief policy advisor for Greenpeace, and the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King.

26.07.2005 Working abroad in a very different culture can help expand one's awareness of the default contexts behind everyday practices, including education, that are often taken for granted.

26.07.2005 A new awards competition for West Midlands based information and communications technology (ICT) companies has been announced by the ICT Cluster Opportunity Group (COG) of Advantage West Midlands.

26.07.2005 The independent inquiry into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes by plainclothes police must fully examine the circumstances leading up to the incident and compliance with international law, demands Amnesty.

25.07.2005 Homes and workplaces could become mini-power stations cutting climate damaging emissions by 15%, says Greenpeace.

25.07.2005 By charging soldiers alleged to have violated human rights in Iraq with war crimes, the U.K. is taking its international obligations seriously and "blunting the ability of extremists to exploit the Iraq war," political analysts say. The U.S., by contrast, was seen by many as covering up misdeeds at Abu Ghraib prison when it tried nine soldiers only for "infringements of military code."

22.07.2005 In a landmark case that coincided with a visit by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to London, a British jury convicted a former Afghan warlord of crimes committed in Afghanistan during the country’s civil war in the early 1990s.

22.07.2005 An Orange cinema advert that some viewers see as poking fun at starving African children has been blasted as a "sick racist joke."

22.07.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 22 (OneWorld) - Activists seeking to impeach President George W. Bush have planned 300-plus events nationwide Saturday to mark the third anniversary of a top-level meeting of British officials that they say proves the White House manipulated intelligence and lied to Congress to justify its war against Iraq.