Improved performances by Jaguar and Land Rover help quarterly financials.

PHNOM PENH, Nov 28 (IPS) - "I would ask the chamber to release me. Thank you."

KANO, Nov 28 (IPS) - Nigeria ratified the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1985 without reservations. But few of its citizens have ever heard of the document. Day-to-day life for women in Nigeria is shaped

NOUAKCHOTT, Nov 27 (IPS) - Mauritania formally adopted the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in 2001, but in the eight years since, it has had limited effect on the status of women.

CAPE TOWN, Nov 27 (IPS) - More than seven months after the Cape High Court ruled in favour of the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), interdicting the police for harassment and arrests, sex workers are losing the daily

PRETORIA, Nov 27 (IPS) - The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ended one of Africa's longest and complex civil wars, with nominal agreement reached on security, wealth sharing, and governance issues. But there are renewed fears that conflict could erupt

VITERBO, Italy, Nov 28 (IPS) - 'Angry' is not the adjective that comes to mind when you first meet Nelly Damaris Chepkoskei.

KINGSTOWN, Nov 27 (IPS) - Even after he cast his vote in Wednesday's referendum, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves was still singing the praises of the new constitution that the St. Vincent and the Grenadines parliament had passed by a

WINDHOEK, Nov 27 (IPS) - "We have been here since four in the morning, my baby is tired," says Melisia Shinedhimha (24) outside the polling station in Okuruyangava, one of Windhoek's poorest townships.

SAN SALVADOR, Nov 27 (IPS) - Thousands of pages of declassified U.S. documents shedding light on the 1989 murders of six prominent Jesuit clerics, their housekeeper and her 16-year-old daughter in El Salvador could give a new twist to the

LA PAZ, Nov 27 (IPS) - Despite major advances in land distribution in Bolivia, single, widowed and undocumented women in this South American country have little chances of owning rural lands due to the patriarchal traditions and customary practices of

GUAPINOL, Honduras, Nov 27 (Tierramérica) - The beating sun in southern Honduras doesn't stop a group of women from throwing themselves into the task of protecting and recuperating a mangrove forest on the Pacific coast.

Schools can be marked down by Ofsted for having low door handles, it has emerged.

More than a quarter of 11-year-olds left primary school this year without a decent grasp of English and maths, official league tables will show.

Ofsted has become a Left-wing front dedicated to maintaining the pretence that schools under Labour are getting better all the time, writes Simon Heffer.

SCOTLAND'S prison population has increased by almost 2,000 in a decade, fuelling a debate over sentencing in Holyrood.

THE invasion of Iraq was of "questionable legitimacy", Britain's ambassador to the United Nations at the time of the war said yesterday.

A £10 billion fund to help halt climate change has been proposed by Gordon Brown at a meeting of heads of Commonwealth governments.

THE mother of the Scots-born computer hacker facing extradition to the United States has revealed that psychiatrists fear her son is now more likely to take his own life.

SCOTLAND may not be able to afford to continue offering free personal care for the elderly, according to the nation's top social worker.