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Some 57% of women in the Netherlands now have jobs, up from 53% in 2005, according to new figures published on Wednesday. (Read More)
The Guardian:
I spend most of my life in bed and in constant pain. I suffer from Crohn's disease, acute fibromyalgia, and epilepsy. Daily life is already a struggle, but soon I could be extradited from Wales to the United States for abduct (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Geert Wilders, the right-wing Dutch politician accused of Islamophobia, said today he was planning to defy a ban on entering the UK and hoped to arrive this afternoon .Wilders was due to show his 17-minute film Fitna, which c (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
"Green" speed bumps that will generate electricity as cars drive over them are to be introduced on Britain's roads. The hi-tech "sleeping policemen" will power street lights, traffic lights and road signs in a pilot scheme in (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Three FTSE100 companies have quietly "offshored" legal ownership of their valuable trademarks to low-tax locations, the Guardian's tax gap investigation has found. Two drug firms, GlaxoSmithKline, and AstraZeneca, both headqu (Read More)
The Guardian:
EU countries could be willing to help the US close down Guantánamo Bay by taking in released detainees despite the doubts of some member states, the EU foreign policy chief said today ahead of a meeting in Brussels on the mat (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Prefacing the launch of the fourth Observer Ethical Awards, we've chosen to highlight 20 of the biggest ethical ideas around at the moment, affording some respite to the prevailing jam-side-down version of life on offer almos (Read More)
The Guardian:
The year's dramatic events made fools of some of the financial world's biggest names. Fortunes have been lost and firms laid low as a series of deals - some of which now look like little more than bets - have gone bitterly so (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
British men and women are among the world's most promiscuous, an international survey of sexual behaviour and attitudes has found. In an index measuring one-night stands, numbers of partners and attitudes to sex, Britain come (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted in the UK, a conference of senior police officers as told yesterday.Francisco Santos Calderón, the vice-president of Colombia, appealed to Briti (Read More)
The Guardian:
The revelation that students at the country's most prestigious seats of learning enjoy an occasional joint is hardly the stuff of headlines - unless that country is Japan.Judging by recent coverage, Japan is in the midst of a (Read More)
The Guardian:
The world is heading for an "ecological credit crunch" far worse than the current financial crisis because humans are over-using the natural resources of the planet, an international study warns today.The Living Planet report (Read More)
The Guardian:
Serbia's state-run daily says Radovan Karadzic's lawyer has filed a last-minute appeal against his extradition to the UN war crimes court in the Netherlands. (Read More)
RNW news: Latest News:
A majority in parliament is pressing the government to do something about the high price of petrol and diesel. MPs are angry that the fuel price before tax is eight percent higher in the Netherlands than the European average. (Read More)