Prime Minister Tony Blair is to formally announce that the Government is to sign an international agreement giving victims the right to stay temporarily.
The European Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings grants victims at least 30 days' grace to recover from the ordeal and consider prosecuting the people smugglers.
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The officer, who has not been named, was granted the exemption at a passing-out ceremony where new recruits met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair.
The woman's refusal was based on her view that her faith prevented her touching a man other than her husband or close relative.
Sir Ian had questioned the validity of the Wpc's refusal, Scotland Yard said.
A spokeswoman for the force sai...
I probably won't speak to my wife about the latest "findings" in The New York Times: 51 percent of American women are "living without a spouse."
They call that living? (That's why I probably won't speak to my wife about this.)
What the sexist New York Times fails to disclose is how many American men are living without a spouse. After all, we have an impressive record ...
The unnamed narrator of Martin Amis' latest novel wants to have things both ways. He wants to be as provocative and offensive as possible, to poke his finger in your chest and rant, but he wants you to keep listening all the same.
Listen you do, since Amis has fashioned for him such a mesmerizing voice - part defiant shout, part whispered confession, part howl of pain. He's not quite t...
In lieu of the promotion of her latest CD under MCA Universal Music, the label hooked up Manila Bulletin for an exclusive interview with the rising teen star. Below find an unadulterated conversation where Jojo gives spirited answers to random questions that run the gamut from shopping to dissecting a frog:
On your official website last year, you wrote that some people had been preten...
It's Missouri's biggest clergy sex-abuse case to date, Leslie said, according to the Associated Baptist Press, but accounts of a youth minister's sexual misconduct were low-key for years until he was convicted last week of 25 counts of abuse.
Shawn Davies, 33, was hired at First Baptist Church of Greenwood in 2003, serving as the music and youth minister. He had attended Southern Bapt...
Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: People should be able to see what information agencies can access, Hahlen said
"We want to make things easier for citizens," Deputy Interior Minister Johann Hahlen told daily Süddeutsche Zeitung on Thursday. "Citizens should give the same information nationwide, not different information in different places."
British Islamic leaders today defended a Muslim woman police constable who refused to shake hands with her force's chief because of her beliefs.
The Metropolitan Police officer declined to have any physical contact with Commissioner Sir Ian Blair at a passing-out ceremony for newly-qualified recruits.
Muslim groups said her refusal was in line with common Islamic practice and call...
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Beyoncé Knowles is in town. Tonight she will sashay down the red carpet at the Odeon Leicester Square for the UK premiere of Dreamgirls. She stars as a Sixties pop diva not a million miles from Diana Ross, in this musical about a girl-group remarkably reminiscent of the Supremes. It has ...
My brother called me Tuesday but he had no intention of talking.
“You’re kidding, right?” came my reply. “I don’t have time to watch TV. They could cut our cable and I wouldn’t know it.”
(This is not entirely true. Occasionally, I surf for Grey’s Anatomy).
“There’s a new show on. I think you’ll get a kick out of Little Mosque on the Prairie.”
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