Full Coverage: United Kingdom

31.01.2006 The climate change debate hots up: an increasing number of meetings on OneWorld UK's Events page deal with global warming. In the next couple of weeks talks and discussions include Bangladesh and climate change adaptation; Climate change and civil society: who is speaking for whom?; The Dana Pub Guide to Energy and The things we do for energy; Should global warming be one of the top priorities for humanity? - with Tom Burke, Michael Meacher, Prof Bjorn Lomborg and Philip Stott; and Contraction and convergence: global solutions to climate change.

31.01.2006 Stand by for the annual feast of films at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, in London, 15-25 March which promises "a programme of 22 intelligent, inspiring and indispensable feature films and documentaries from 20 countries, articulating many of the human, environmental and geo-political stories of our times."

31.01.2006 Military Families Against the War says that the death of the 100th British soldier in Iraq yesterday will be marked by protests in towns across the country.

31.01.2006 While the many of us snap up £1.99 flights to Rome, a small but growing band of conscientious objectors are making a stand by refusing to fly. Is this the beginning of the budget travel backlash, asks Tom Robbins.

31.01.2006 A national search has begun to find England’s young ‘climate change champions’, who will be asked to help raise the profile of green issues among young people in their area. Nine people will be selected as part of a government initiative.

31.01.2006 Archbishop Desmond Tutu has accused the UK of "meanness of spirit" in a letter to Gordon Brown asking him to return £1.7bn that the UK will receive from Nigeria as its share of a deal by rich countries to write off much of Nigeria's debts.

30.01.2006 Marks & Spencer will become the first major UK retailer to sell clothing made from 100 per cent Fairtrade cotton, the company said today as it launched a new campaign - 'Look behind the label' - to tell customers about the way its products are sourced and made.

30.01.2006 Patrick Vieira's life story, from humble beginnings in Senegal to triumph with France, shows that football is the world's most globalised industry, says Simon Kuper.

30.01.2006 British Prime Minister Tony Blair has admitted that the risks of climate change may be more serious than previously thought.
* How much climate change can we take? - Defra launches new book

27.01.2006 Food production and ownership is under more threat than ever from big business. War on Want brings UK campaigners together with activists from across the world to hear how people are fighting back, London, 25 February.

27.01.2006 Campaigners say the UK Treasury will pocket a £1.7 billion windfall – almost twice the entire aid budget for Africa – from a deal to cancel part of Nigeria's debt and accuse the government of effectively raiding the aid budget to help balance the UK's finances.

27.01.2006 Many students applying to university in UK to study medicine or dentistry will be required to undergo a 90-minute computer aptitude test as part of their course application. The UKCAT (UK Clinical Aptitude Test) will feature verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, abstract reasoning and problem solving questions; it will not cover academic subjects

26.01.2006 As the British government announces that 4,150 extra troops will be sent to Afghanistan, it is also reported that Kabul's fight against illegal poppy cultivation will be a key point on the agenda at the London conference to discuss the country's future this month.
* OneWorld UK Guide to Afghanistan

26.01.2006 Wave and tide power could provide up to 20% of the UK's current electricity, a new report says.

25.01.2006 Solicitor Imran Khan talks about Islamophobia and the role it plays in human rights violations in the post-9/11 and 7/7 world, at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London on 9 March.

25.01.2006 Thousands of campaigners vow to continue the fight against poverty and are sending their white bands to Prime Minister Tony Blair in a demand that he do the same.

25.01.2006 The UK Government is still failing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, new Government figures reveal.

25.01.2006 The Palestine Society of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London has invited all Palestinians in the Diaspora to participate in symbolic elections on the actual date of elections to be held in the Occupied Palestinian Territories on 25 January.

24.01.2006 A new international development Bill - which aims to ensure that the government is kept to promises made in 2005 to deliver more aid to poor countries - has passed through its beginning stage unopposed after receiving the support of both the Conservative and Lib Dem frontbenches.
* International Development Bill moves forward to next stage

23.01.2006 Bereket Yohannes from Eritrea has become the seventh asylum-seeker to die at his own hands whilst incarcerated in a UK detention centre.