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Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with flight MH370, which was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. Full story >>>

The head of the Metropolitan Police has vowed to win back public trust after a report found officers spied on the family of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence. Full story >>>

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warns the US not to take "hasty steps" over the Ukraine crisis, as tensions remain high in Crimea. Full story >>>

A scheme to let people to find out from police if their partner has a history of domestic violence is introduced across England and Wales. Full story >>>

The 2014 Winter Paralympics are opened by Russian president Vladimir Putin in a spectacular ceremony in Sochi. Full story >>>

Raising the income tax allowance to £12,500 will be a Lib Dem demand in future coalition talks, the party is to say. Full story >>>

A man and a woman are charged with causing or allowing the death of a two-year-old girl who ingested the heroin substitute methadone. Full story >>>

Ministers are discussing plans to make non-payment of the television licence fee a civil, rather than a criminal, offence. Full story >>>

Government forecasts for what it expects to recoup from closing tax loopholes are vulnerable to "great uncertainty", MPs say. Full story >>>

South Africa expels three Rwandan diplomats in connection with an attack on the home of an exiled Rwandan dissident, diplomatic sources say. Full story >>>

Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with flight MH370, which was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. Full story >>>

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warns the US not to take "hasty steps" over the Ukraine crisis, as tensions remain high in Crimea. Full story >>>

The 2014 Winter Paralympics are opened by Russian president Vladimir Putin in a spectacular ceremony in Sochi. Full story >>>

An ex-girlfriend tells the Oscar Pistorius trial that he fired a gun from a car, as a security guard tells of the shock of finding him with a dying Reeva Steenkamp. Full story >>>

Turkey's former army chief Ilker Basbug is released from prison in Istanbul after a local court overturns his conviction for plotting a coup. Full story >>>

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy had his phone tapped on the orders of judges investigating alleged Libyan donations, it is alleged. Full story >>>

A US Army captain weeps as she tells a court that a general made her perform oral sex on him and threatened to kill her family if she told anyone. Full story >>>

Saudi Arabia designates the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation, along with two jihadist groups fighting with the Syrian rebels. Full story >>>

US aerospace company Boeing says it is checking 787 Dreamliner planes under production for potential "hairline cracks" in wings. Full story >>>

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta announces that he and his cabinet will take pay cuts to help reduce the government's ballooning wage bill. Full story >>>

The head of the Metropolitan Police has vowed to win back public trust after a report found officers spied on the family of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence. Full story >>>

A scheme to let people to find out from police if their partner has a history of domestic violence is introduced across England and Wales. Full story >>>

Raising the income tax allowance to £12,500 will be a Lib Dem demand in future coalition talks, the party is to say. Full story >>>

A man and a woman are charged with causing or allowing the death of a two-year-old girl who ingested the heroin substitute methadone. Full story >>>

Ministers are discussing plans to make non-payment of the television licence fee a civil, rather than a criminal, offence. Full story >>>

Government forecasts for what it expects to recoup from closing tax loopholes are vulnerable to "great uncertainty", MPs say. Full story >>>

A deal on sharing control of the pound between an independent Scotland and the rest of the UK is "unlikely", analysts at the global bank Citigroup say. Full story >>>

Charges against three football fans accused of using the word "yid" at Tottenham Hotspur matches are dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service. Full story >>>

Plaid Cymru party leader Leanne Wood urges voters to reject "damaging Europhobia" in May's European election as her party meets for its spring conference. Full story >>>

Animated film Room on the Broom scoops a prize at the British Animation Awards, less than a week after losing out at the Oscars. Full story >>>

Raising the income tax allowance to £12,500 will be a Lib Dem demand in future coalition talks, the party is to say. Full story >>>

A scheme to let people to find out from police if their partner has a history of domestic violence is introduced across England and Wales. Full story >>>

Government forecasts for what it expects to recoup from closing tax loopholes are vulnerable to "great uncertainty", MPs say. Full story >>>

Ministers are discussing plans to make non-payment of the television licence fee a civil, rather than a criminal, offence. Full story >>>

David Cameron and Nick Clegg are criticised for employing foreign domestic staff after a minister attacked the "metropolitan elite" for using cheap migrant workers. Full story >>>

Some primary schools will struggle to comply with Nick Clegg's free school meal scheme, a senior Tory MP warns. Full story >>>

Areas hit by storms will get priority when the next round of coastal regeneration money is handed out, ministers say. Full story >>>

A pensioner dressed as Elvis beats the Liberal Democrats into last place in a Nottingham by-election. Full story >>>

Plaid Cymru party leader Leanne Wood urges voters to reject "damaging Europhobia" in May's European election as her party meets for its spring conference. Full story >>>

The cross-party decision to rule out a monetary union if Scotland became independent is final, the chief secretary to the Treasury says. Full story >>>

Building gigantic walls across the US could protect Tornado Alley "forever", a physicist says, though critics say the idea is unworkable. Full story >>>

This winter's extreme winds caused the biggest loss of trees in in more than 20 years, according to the National Trust. Full story >>>

The UK government is discussing new rules to stop farmers contributing to flooding through poor land management. Full story >>>

Elephants that give birth as teenagers die younger, but are fitter than mothers that delay, scientists say. Full story >>>

Warmer temperatures are causing malaria to spread in the African and South American highlands, traditionally havens from the disease, scientists say. Full story >>>

The world's financial markets could be creating a "carbon bubble" by overvaluing the fossil fuel assets of large companies. Full story >>>

A great white is about to make history as the first of its species to be seen crossing from one side of the Atlantic to the other. Full story >>>

Doctors have upgraded the immune system of 12 patients with HIV to help shield it from the virus's onslaught. Full story >>>

Mysterious lightning flashes that appear to precede earthquakes could be sparked by movements in the ground below, scientists say. Full story >>>

HMS Vanguard is to be refuelled at a cost of £120m after low levels of radioactivity were discovered in the cooling waters of a submarine test reactor. Full story >>>

The 2014 Winter Paralympics are opened by Russian president Vladimir Putin in a spectacular ceremony in Sochi. Full story >>>

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Visually impaired British skiers Kelly Gallagher and Jade Etherington on their perilous pursuit of Winter Paralympic glory Full story >>>

As the Premier League's bottom two - Cardiff and Fulham - prepare to meet, Danny Murphy offers advice on beating the drop Full story >>>

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Adam Swift scores two tries as St Helens beat Hull KR to extend their perfect Super League start to four matches. Full story >>>

Heather Watson exits the BNP Paribas Open in the second round with a 6-4 6-3 loss to Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska. Full story >>>

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A 15 year old worker died at Pegatron (Shanghai) factory primarily making cell phones and tablets PCs for Apple. Full story >>>

Samsung, the world's 8th largest company, have been criticised for 'kidnapping' union leaders. Full story >>>

Students must have the right to protest on their campuses. In the week when Nelson Mandela died the #copsoffcampus protests hold even more significance, with student protest having played a key role in the 1980s in supporting his anti-apartheid movement. Full story >>>

In the past fortnight the Students' Councils at University of Glasgow, SOAS and four Oxford colleges have passed motions calling on their universities to divest from the fossil fuel industry. Full story >>>

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The Bank of England was visited today by five human â--Carbon Bubblesâ-- to warn of the huge financial risk posed by the â--Carbon Bubbleâ--. The message being delivered is that failure to divest from fossil fuels could see the biggest financial crisis the world has e… Full story >>>

Organise a candlelit vigil on your campus in solidarity with those affected by Typhoon Hayian in the Philippines. #DivestfromDisaster Full story >>>

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Workwear and uniform supplier to the education sector Premier Clothing has been found to be in the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh which collapsed last year killing 1129 workers. Full story >>>

On November 11th 2013, the Cambridge University Studentsâ-- Union Council voted unanimously to encourage the University and its constituent colleges to divest from non-renewable resources. Full story >>>

A 15 year old worker died at Pegatron (Shanghai) factory primarily making cell phones and tablets PCs for Apple. Full story >>>

Samsung, the world's 8th largest company, have been criticised for 'kidnapping' union leaders. Full story >>>

Students must have the right to protest on their campuses. In the week when Nelson Mandela died the #copsoffcampus protests hold even more significance, with student protest having played a key role in the 1980s in supporting his anti-apartheid movement. Full story >>>

In the past fortnight the Students' Councils at University of Glasgow, SOAS and four Oxford colleges have passed motions calling on their universities to divest from the fossil fuel industry. Full story >>>

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Workwear and uniform supplier to the education sector Premier Clothing has been found to be in the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh which collapsed last year killing 1129 workers. Full story >>>

On November 11th 2013, the Cambridge University Studentsâ-- Union Council voted unanimously to encourage the University and its constituent colleges to divest from non-renewable resources. Full story >>>

A People & Planet student who won the Sweatshop Free campaign on his campus in the UK pulls the same trick off in Oklahoma and Sweatshop Free support from students in the US Full story >>>

The movement to divest UK universities from fossil fuels was officially launched last weekend at Shared Planet, People & Planet's annual conference. Full story >>>

For the last three years, Cheney's People and Planet group have organized loads of exciting school events for World AIDS Day on 1 December and this year was no exception. Full story >>>

The Forum is P&P's democratic decision-making event - submit your proposals by 8 December Full story >>>

For P&Per Kirsty Styles, Barack Obama's victory rapidly went from tangible, to imminent, to - 634 days after his campaign began - confirmed, making him the first ever African-American President of the US. Kirsty reflects on the opportunities and challenges this may bring to campaigners. Full story >>>

The largest student conference in the UK on Poverty, Human Rights and the Environment is less than 3 weeks away. Here's why we think you should come.. Full story >>>

Here's why you should put it in your diary and book your place now... Full story >>>

Order a pack with the film 'Can pay, Should pay' and see why the government has no excuse not to Treat AIDS Now. Full story >>>

A report on, and the outcomes of, People & Planet's annual decision making event, The Forum, which was held in Manchester between Friday 7 and Sunday 9 March 2008. Full story >>>

MPs challenged and campaigning celebrated, students gathered in London on 11 March to push government to take tough action on access to treatment. Full story >>>

Malmesbury School makes it onto the front cover of local newspapers during Treat AIDS Now's Week of Action. Jason Peel, Malmesbury Sixth Form student reports: Full story >>>

Oxford University student and Campaign Advocate Nick Chan reports: Oxford University People & Planet met with local Oxford West MP Evan Harris just before the Treat AIDS Now Week of Action to press him to include our campaign demands in his work in Parliament and to present him with the action c… Full story >>>

Students must have the right to protest on their campuses. In the week when Nelson Mandela died the #copsoffcampus protests hold even more significance, with student protest having played a key role in the 1980s in supporting his anti-apartheid movement. Full story >>>

In the past fortnight the Students' Councils at University of Glasgow, SOAS and four Oxford colleges have passed motions calling on their universities to divest from the fossil fuel industry. Full story >>>

Full story >>>

The Bank of England was visited today by five human â--Carbon Bubblesâ-- to warn of the huge financial risk posed by the â--Carbon Bubbleâ--. The message being delivered is that failure to divest from fossil fuels could see the biggest financial crisis the world has e… Full story >>>

Organise a candlelit vigil on your campus in solidarity with those affected by Typhoon Hayian in the Philippines. #DivestfromDisaster Full story >>>

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On November 11th 2013, the Cambridge University Studentsâ-- Union Council voted unanimously to encourage the University and its constituent colleges to divest from non-renewable resources. Full story >>>

The movement to divest UK universities from fossil fuels was officially launched last weekend at Shared Planet, People & Planet's annual conference. Full story >>>

Fossil Free Tour concludes in London tonight, officially launching divestment campaign across the UK and Europe Full story >>>

Moments before a banner protest by students and Oxford residents, police cordoned off a Shell recruitment stand in the city centre today, preventing Shell from actually recruiting students to work in the fossil fuel industry. Full story >>>

Don't miss your chance to win fantastic designer prizes Full story >>>

Lisa Butcher gives her support to People & Planet's Wear Fair campaign for Fairtrade school uniforms and sports kits. Full story >>>

Watch students delivering your messages to Asda during Fairtrade Fortnight demanding Fairtrade cotton uniforms Full story >>>

Students at City & Islington College made mini-movies and spray-painted t-shirts to raise awareness of climate change and human rights in clothing supply chains at their Sustainability and Volunteering Conference last week. Full story >>>

Edinburgh University is hosting a FREE conference aimed at getting more Fairtrade products into universities and colleges around Scotland. Full story >>>

Students at Barrs Hill school, Coventry, promote the Fair trade message to the local Tamil community. Full story >>>

We now have -500 worth of vouchers for Emma Watson's exclusive new People Tree collection to give away to the winners of our Wear Fair fashion show competition. Full story >>>

Sibford school-s People & Planet group have stormed ahead with the Wear Fair campaign for Fairtrade cotton, and have convinced the school to stock Fairtrade cotton t-shirts ready for their summer sports day. Full story >>>

Students at Princethorpe College wowed the school with their Fairtrade fashion show yesterday Full story >>>

Take part in the Big Swap to Fairtrade cotton in schools and colleges Full story >>>

Don't miss your chance to win fantastic designer prizes Full story >>>

Lisa Butcher gives her support to People & Planet's Wear Fair campaign for Fairtrade school uniforms and sports kits. Full story >>>

Watch students delivering your messages to Asda during Fairtrade Fortnight demanding Fairtrade cotton uniforms Full story >>>

Students at Princethorpe College wowed the school with their Fairtrade fashion show yesterday Full story >>>

Take part in the Big Swap to Fairtrade cotton in schools and colleges Full story >>>

Dramatic success for People & Planet's Wear Fair campaign as retail giant agrees to double it's stock of Fairtrade cotton school uniforms Full story >>>

It was a year of twists, turns and amazing successes. Three new campaigns were launched. Thousands more people got involved and we found exciting new ways to work together as an incredible, powerful, inspirational network. Full story >>>

People & Planet joins with students from the US in day of action against trade union busting in Honduras, as university boycott becomes 'biggest ever'. Full story >>>

Under pressure from the international boycott campaign, Fruit of the Loom subsidiary Russell release 'Corrective Action Plan'. Serious doubts are expressed by workers' rights groups as to the credibility of the plan. Full story >>>

The Scottish Greens show support for-People and Planet's campaign to curb exploitation in the garment industry Full story >>>

<img src="http://www.calligra.org/wp-content/themes/calligra/images/calligra-logo-200.png" width="200" height="142" /> <p> Packages for the release of <a href="http://www.calligra.org/news/calligra-2-8-released/">KDE's document suite Cal… Full story >>>

Trusty Beta 1, based on KDE SC 4.12.2, is available for Testing. The Beta 1 images can be downloaded at: <a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/trusty/beta-1/" title="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/trusty/beta-1/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/r… Full story >>>

<p>Packages for the release of <a href="http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.12.2.php">KDE SC 4.12.2</a> are available for Kubuntu 12.04LTS, 13.10 and our development release. You can get them from the Kubuntu Backports PPA. It includes an update of kde-workspace … Full story >>>

Our current LTS release has had an update, <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2014-February/000180.html">12.04.4</a>. It adds all the current bugfixes and security updates to keep your LTS systems fresh. <a href="/getkubuntu/download-lts">… Full story >>>

<a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2014-January/001074.html">Trusty Alpha 2 Available for Testing</a>. The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at: <a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/trusty/alpha-2/">http://cdimage.ubun… Full story >>>

<blockquote>"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement." -- Alfred Adler </blockquote> <p>The first Alpha of the Trusty Tahr (to become 14.04) has now been released!</p> <p>… Full story >>>

<p>Packages for the release of <a href="http://kde.org/announcements/4.12/">KDE SC 4.12</a> are available for Kubuntu 12.04LTS, 13.10 and our development release. You can get them from the Kubuntu Backports PPA.</p> <p>Bugs in the packaging should be reported… Full story >>>

<p>KDE's integrated development environment has released a new version.</p> <p> Packages for the release of <a href="http://www.kdevelop.org/46/kdevelop-460-final-released">KDevelop 4.6</a> are available for Kubuntu 13.10. You can get it from the Kubuntu… Full story >>>

<p>Packages for the release of <a href="http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.12-rc.php">KDE SC 4.12 Release Candidates</a> are available for Kubuntu 12.04LTS, 13.10 and our development release. You can get them from the Kubuntu Beta PPA.</p> <p>Bugs in the… Full story >>>

<p>KDE's office and productivity suite Calligra has made a new bugfix release.</p> <p> Packages for the release of the <a href="http://www.calligra.org/news/calligra-2-7-5-released/">Calligra Suite 2.7.5</a> are available for Kubuntu 13.10 and 12.04 LTS.… Full story >>>

<h4>New document reveals what it took to get IBM off tweet biz's back</h4> <p>Twitter spent about $36m buying nearly 1,000 patents from IBM to avoid a perilous legal fight, official paperwork has revealed.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>Spaceplane team shocked by high-altitude cleavage outrage</h4> <p><strong>NSFW vid</strong> <i>The Register</i>'s Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/Wrap/lohan/">LOHAN</a>) team has expressed its shock … Full story >>>

<h4>One-year mission to probe effects of life in the cosmos</h4> <p>NASA on Friday announced a set of ten experiments designed to study the effects of spaceflight on the human body by comparing identical twins – one being up in space and the other down on Earth.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>New streaming radio app to milk massive mobile market</h4> <p>Seeking to capitalize on its dominance of the Android smartphone world, Samsung has launched a free online streaming music service in the US that's only available to owners of its Galaxy-branded mobes.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>Ripped off on a 256MB RAM stick? Today's your lucky day</h4> <p>Remember getting hosed on those 128MB DIMM RAM sticks back in Y2K? Well, it's time to exact your revenge: with a $10 payout.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>Analyst spins spin-off from tech king's tin</h4> <p><strong>Blocks and Files</strong> An analyst at 451 Research has suggested EMC set its Information Intelligence Group and its Documentum software free by spinning them off or selling them.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>Fight over minority investor's PayPal spinoff plan rumbles on</h4> <p>Activist investor Carl Icahn is continuing his campaign to get eBay to spin off PayPal, writing yet another letter to shareholders that said he hadn't even begun to fight to get his way.…</p><!--#i… Full story >>>

<h4>Got cold legs? Don't fancy a Mac-level rinsing?</h4> <p>Dell has introduced an entry-level mobile workstation, the 15.6-inch Precision M2800, to fill the gap between business-level laptops and top-of-the-line mobile workstations such as the 17.3-inch Dell <a href="http://www… Full story >>>

<h4>Lady Madonna with the big boobies? Fine. Porn? HELL NO!</h4> <p>A six second sexual encounter is bound to disappoint and annoy. So it's little wonder that the teeny-weeny video service Vine has called an end to them.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>Tribune BS becomes Tribune SI after pre-pack deal</h4> <p>The company formerly known as Tribune Business Systems is about to be reanimated after Dubai-based investment firm VMS bought it out of administration in a classic pre-pack arrangement.…</p> Full story >>>