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Here are five announcements we would have liked to have seen today.
Iram Ramzan recently caught up with Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi during a talk about women’s rights, President Rouhani and the situation inside Iran.
Universities may spend more money on marketing, but substance will always be more important than style.
Anna Lo – the UK’s only parliamentary politician of Chinese origin – has said she will not seek re-election to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2016. One of the reasons she cites is racism.
New polling indicates that whilst the Yes campaign has increased its support it still has a mountain to climb.
Climate has become such a low priority for European leaders that they see the horse-trading over jobs in the Commission as a bigger deal than efforts to avert climate change.
The energy companies are now making a record £96 per household.
Labour must be a tireless champion of efforts to stamp out sexual violence in Afghanistan.
The popularity of clicktivism, e-petitions, and political blogs are evidence that people are willing to politically engage online.
Voters in six EU countries other than Britain have given their thumbs up to an independent Scotland gaining membership of the European Union.
