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David Cameron to co-chair UN meeting in Liberia : Prime Minister David Cameron is to co-chair a meeting of the UN's high-level panel in Liberia later, where he is on the final leg of his Africa trip. The group will seek to agree aims to replace the millennium development goals - to end poverty - which ... BBC News

PM's 'historic' moment on poverty : David Cameron is in Liberia for talks on international development targets and will have a "historic opportunity" to lift 350 million children out of extreme poverty , charities said. On the third leg of his tour of Africa, the Prime Minister will co ... Belfast Telegraph

Lewisham hospital announcement: Politics live blog : But it needs to be financially sustainable. Money for funding deficits cannot be used to fund care, he says. The South London Healthcare NHS Trust is the most financially challenged trust in the UK . It is losing more than £1m a week. It has a deficit ... United Kingdom | Ireland | America | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Two Brutal Murders of Gay Men in New York City Within Three Days ... The New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) has learned of two brutal murders of gay men in New York City that occurred over a three-day span of time.

Share your favourite London landmarks : To coincide with the launch of our interactive 360-degree panorama of London as seen from the top of the Shard, we asked a selection of celebrity Londoners to tell us about their favourite buildings. Charlie Higson picked the White Tower, Sarah Waters ... The Guardian

International focus: Argentina plans new social housing on railway land : Argentina is pursuing a novel solution to the shortage of land for social housing in Buenos Aires: building on its railways. The national government has announced a competition inviting architects to submit plans for housing on 544,000 square metres of ... The Guardian

Atlanta: Child Shot In Head At School : ... school was reportedly put on lockdown. The shooting is the latest to occur as the United States wrestles with gun violence, most recently a massacre that left 20 children and six adults dead at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut in ... Yahoo! News UK

Sheeran: Styles bought pizza for homeless : Ed Sheeran is amazed by the lengths his friend Harry Styles will go to help people. The Grammy-nominated British singer and the One Direction crooner often spend time together. UK newspaper The Mirror reports that Ed was particularly moved by a recent ... Belfast Telegraph

Scotland's law to end homelessness: a bold policy which needs more action : So 2012 has come and gone. For much of the UK it was the year of the London Olympics. But for those of us at Shelter Scotland, for more than 10 years now, 2012 has shone on the horizon as the year in which homelessness laws were to be reformed. The Guardian (blog)

UK rabbi hoodwinks child abuse victim : A senior British rabbi has been secretly filmed convincing an alleged victim of child sex abuse not to go to the police by claiming that it is forbidden under religious guidelines. Rabbi Ephraim Padwa, who is leader of Britain's Strictly Orthodox ... Press TV

Oye Lithur Is 100% Right On The Homosexual Issue : Once again, the homosexuality issue is back on the front pages because of the lady who has been nominated to head the Gender,Children and Social Protection Ministry long history of speaking for the rights of gays and lesbians. As human rights lawyer ... United Kingdom | Ireland | America | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

UK's poorest families face hundreds of percent tax rise : Under the UK government's austerity program millions of low income households are facing a hike in their council tax bills of up to 333% a year. New changes are to be introduced this April, while Scotland and Wales chose not to implement the cuts to ... RT

Burger King reveals its burgers were contaminated in horsemeat scandal : As governments in Ireland, the UK and Poland, where a supplier used by Silvercrest for a year is thought be the source of the contamination, continued their investigations, Burger King admitted that, contrary to previous assurances made to it by ... The Guardian

Potash mine under national park will make Yorkshire farmers millionaires : Dozens of Yorkshire farmers are on the verge of becoming millionaires thanks to a 250m-year-old layer of minerals a mile below their muddy boots. Chris Fraser, a former investment banker, has submitted a planning application to mine the world's largest ... The Guardian

Pitbull branded 'gay' after he was caught mounting a male dog saved from death ... : The “ gay ” pitbull has been spared — and renamed Elton. A poor pooch whose ignorant owner sent him to a Tennessee pound after catching him mounting another male dog was saved from being euthanized Thursday. Dog-lover Stephanie Fryns, moved by ... New York Daily News

16000 attend seminars on how to curb LGBT : BUKIT MERTAJAM: About 16,000 parents and teachers have attended the Education Ministry's seminars on how to curb lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) behaviour. Deputy Education Minister Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi said 21 seminars had been ...

Tech Conference Gives LGBT Students Support to Stay Out Some 200 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender college students from around the nation are gathering at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters this weekend for an event organizers say will be the largest-ever of its kind. The second-annual Out for ...

Scottish campaigner: gay marriage will force children into 'homosexual school ... Rosemary Cameron, a campaigner against marriage equality said that people who object to gay marriage risk being discriminated against if new legislation goes ahead. Speaking today (31 January) to the daily Dunfermline Press Cameron said she felt that ...

PM urged to tackle child poverty : Policy director Brendan Cox said: "If it does its job right this panel will go down in history for setting out a blueprint that finally banishes two of the greatest injustices from our planet - extreme poverty and preventable child deaths ... United Kingdom | Ireland | America | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Barrymore: Kids shouldn't wear make-up : The 37-year-old star began wearing make-up when she was six-years-old as her child acting career gained speed, so she understands the effects of children aging themselves too early. Instead she wants to focus on instilling confidence in her daughter. Belfast Telegraph

Assignment - UK Roma children in care : It is a story of two very different approaches to parenting: The UK , like many western countries, takes a safety-first approach to child welfare. Yet it seems Roma parents prefer a looser, more informal style. Stories of young Roma children being ...

Child poverty: Take parental addiction into account, urges Duncan Smith : Parental addiction and other factors should be taken into account when considering a new definition of child poverty, a cabinet minister is to say. A "fixation" on relative family income as a benchmark has led to misleading outcomes, Iain Duncan Smith ... BBC News

Children living abroad get benefits : An HMRC spokeswoman said: "EU rules allow EEA nationals to claim child benefit if they meet the relevant conditions and pay compulsory national insurance contributions. These same rules benefit UK nationals working and paying compulsory social ...

Charity at heart of massive tax avoidance scam : One of Britain's biggest charities is a front for tax avoidance, The Times can reveal. Wealthy donors used the Cup Trust to avoid £46 million in tax in an extensive abuse of Gift Aid incentives designed to encourage charitable donations. The registered ... United Kingdom | Ireland | America | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

David Beckham Gives PSG Salary To Charity : David Beckham will not receive a wage after signing a five month contract with Paris St Germain, but will instead see his salary paid to a children's charity . As the former England captain was unveiled by the French Ligue 1 club at a news conference, ... Yahoo! News UK

Dog Exterminated For Being Gay So he promptly brought the animal to a kennel to unload him into oblivion. After all, you can't possibly keep a dog that might be gay , right? Not in Tennessee, which is apparently the new Uganda for four legged creatures. Anyway, the kennel was ...

Homeless sign up for Recovery College An innovative college for homeless people in London, the first of its kind in the country, is attracting hundreds of students. Recovery College, set up in Southwark by St Mungo's charity, is providing courses which improve practical skills and help to ...

Wharton Builds Bridges to LGBT Community Administrators at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School this week released a revised diversity plan aimed at faculty, months after a student group criticized an earlier draft for failing to show enough support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual ...

Why LGBT Equality Means Equality for All In his second inaugural address, President Obama made history for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) movement, in more ways than one. As he said so eloquently of our struggle for equal rights: "Our journey is not complete until our gay ...

GPs to prescribe self-help books for mental health problems Its chief executive, Miranda McKearney, said of the project: "There is a growing evidence base that shows that self-help reading can help people with certain mental health conditions to get better." She said 6 million people in the UK suffered from ...

UK political heavyweights make the case for staying in the EU The CBIE will make a positive case for British leadership in the EU after leading pro-Europeans acknowledged that a tide of Euroscepticism has gone unchallenged in the United Kingdom . The trend of hostility directed at Brussels had directly led to ...

Cumbria rejects underground nuclear storage dump Government plans to undertake preliminary work on an underground storage dump for nuclear waste were rejected by Cumbria county council on Wednesday, adding a major roadblock to plans for a long term solution to the problem of nuclear waste.

Contrary to 49ers' Stance, Culliver Says He Wouldn't Accept a Gay Teammate NEW ORLEANS — In a media circus — with questions involving supplements made from deer antlers and players discussing the terrifying nature of head injuries — the conversation has turned back to how the N.F.L. would accept an ...

Why higher benefits won't solve child poverty: Duncan Smith says ... Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said parental addiction- not family income - had emerged as the main factor in determining a child's life ...

Misery of Pakistan's abandoned wives An increasing number of Pakistani women say they have been forcibly separated from their children in the UK , and abandoned in their country of birth by their British husbands. The BBC's Tulip Mazumdar travelled to Pakistani-administered Kashmir to meet ...