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The Conservative Party is promising to peg exams in England to an international benchmark to ensure standards.
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The Conservative Party is promising to peg exams in England to an international benchmark to ensure standards.
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Mobile fingerprint scanners enabling on-the-spot identity checks are to be issued to all UK police forces.
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The Conservatives promise to cut the approval time for new NHS drugs from an average of 18 months to between three and six months.
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Business leaders would be offered tax breaks by a Conservative government to persuade them to recruit more staff, David Cameron will announce today as he puts plans to ease the "pain of mass unemployment" at the heart of his economic agenda.
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David Cameron is to unveil a plan to cut the tax burden for employers as the main parties fight it out over tax.
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Pre-nuptial agreements would be legally binding and cohabiting couples refused the same rights as those who marry under Tory plans for strengthening marriage unveiled today.
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Record-breaking exam results are "illusory" in a system which is failing a generation, the Royal Society of Chemistry says.
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As opposition MPs prepare to topple the Tory government, anger over the recent political machinations in Ottawa have been blowing across Alberta like one of the province's famous chinook winds.
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Police are to stage early morning road checks as part of a fresh drink-driving crackdown.
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The Opposition Conservatives are accusing New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham of ignoring potential conflicts of interest in the possible hiring of a lobbyist to a senior government position.
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Senior defensive tackle received a fifth year of eligibility after missing most of last season because of a knee injury, and he's determined to make the most of it. UCLA's Brigham Harwell had finally received the telephone call he'd waited for all last winter. A fifth year of eligibility to play football had been granted.
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World financial leaders met to quell market stress and strengthen institutions.
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Friday that the Bush administration will move ahead with a plan to buy stock in financial institutions.
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Blaming a drastic recent downturn in revenues, Channel 4 announces a policy reversal and pulls out of a consortium in which it is the majority shareholder
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Finance officials from the world’s top economic powers endorsed a sweeping plan Friday to stem the worst financial crisis in more than a half-century.
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Rangers have been given the goahead for a multimillionpound development at Ibrox.
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US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says the US government is planning to invest directly in US banks to prevent them from failing, expanding the focus of the government's $US700 billion ($1 trillion) rescue plan.
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Group Managing Director/CEO of BGL Plc, Mr. Albert Okumagba has said that a well articulated Development Action Plan (DAP) is imperative for economic transformation of Northern Nigeria to free the region from the firm grip of poverty.
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China's State Council issued a series of quality control regulations for dairy products on Thursday. The move was prompted by the country's contaminated milk scandal. The regulations tighten control of how milk-yielding animals are bred, how raw milk is purchased
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The top Japanese business lobby will propose in a report that Japanese companies listed on foreign stock exchanges adopt international accounting standards at an early date, informed sources told Jiji Press on Friday. The Japan Business Federation, also known as
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The Group of Seven finance chiefs announced Friday a plan of action to fight the global crisis, including the use of "all available tools" to support key institutions and prevent their failure.
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A RADICAL plan to allow first-time buyers to purchase new houses with a mortgage financed by the State is set to be unveiled in the Budget, the Irish Independent has learned.
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Parliament passed a law unlocking Central Bank lending to private banks in a $36 billion bailout, continuing a strategy that has relied on making government oil profits available to banks.
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A series of exhibitions go on display showing detailed plans for a controversial relief road through Dorset.
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Nasa pushes ahead with plans to launch its 2009 Mars mission, but acknowledges the need for extra funds to make it happen.
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The Group of Seven finance chiefs announced Friday a plan of action to fight a global crisis including the use of "all available tools" to support key institutions and prevent their failure.
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Stephane Dion said Saturday a Tory government would hurt the economy and do nothing for the environment, but Stephen Harper fired back, saying the Liberals' Green Shift plan would "kill jobs."
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday welcomed a plan by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to buy equity in financial institutions if necessary to halt market turmoil.
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Friday that the Bush administration will move ahead with a plan to buy stock in financial institutions.
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A Conservative government would not need to cut spending to keep the government from running a deficit, leader Stephen Harper said Saturday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- After consulting with Barack Obama, Democratic leaders are likely to call Congress back to work after the election in hopes of passing legislation that would include extended jobless benefits, money for food stamps and possibly a tax rebate, officials said Saturday....
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The new approach, which would have the government inject capital directly into banks, is one that administration officials had publicly opposed.
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