TAX CHANGES COULD COST UK PUBLIC SECTOR WORKERS 30% OF SALARY

Tax changes could cost UK public sector workers 30 percent of salary... READ MORE›

RETHINK ON HOUSING BENEFIT CAP FOR ELDERLY AND VULNERABLE

More than 700,000 people in supported housing usually have the accommodation element of their costs met entirely through housing benefit... READ MORE›

Despite the weirdness of Campbell Newman running for premier from outside the parliament in 2012, his government began its work in a familiar, austerian manner... READ MORE›

CHARTING CHINA'S 'GREAT PURGE' UNDER XI

The country's Communist Party has for decades ruled by consensus, but analysts say President Xi is rewriting party rules and concentrating power in his own hands... READ MORE›

ONE IN SIX JOBSEEKERS HAVE ALLOWANCE STOPPED BY DWP EACH YEAR

The figures contradict official claims that only a small minority of jobseekers have been affected by the government's increasingly severe welfare policies... READ MORE›

ETHIOPIA'S CRACKDOWN ON DISSENT TAKES RISING TOLL

Politicians held over protests as PM says anti-peace forces spreading false information about investment zone plan... READ MORE›

CHINA: XI JINPING CEMENTS STATUS AS LEADER

The move on Tuesday elevated his status as one of the country's most powerful leaders, alongside figures such as Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping... READ MORE›

CHINA'S XI PROMOTES NO CLEAR HEIR, OPENING DOOR TO STAY IN POWER FOR DECADES

Coupled with revisions to the party charter that elevated Xi's status... READ MORE›

CHINA'S MILITARY SHIFTS SIGNAL BIGGER CHANGES

Political analyst Cheng Li explains Xi Jinping's revamp of China's military... READ MORE›

XI'S KEY MILESTONE POSITIONS HIM TO RULE CHINA FOR DECADES

'Xi Jinping Thought' Xi's elevation in the revised charter may reduce his need to test the party's retirement conventions... READ MORE›

MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS REQUIRE FUNDING CERTAINTY TO AVERT 'CATASTROPHE'

Advocacy groups will be calling on the federal government on Wednesday to create a 10-year plan to tackle mental health illness... READ MORE›

DOWNFALL OF CHINESE RISING STAR POINTS TO XI POWER PLAY

The ousting of another former Chongqing chief, Bo Xilai, jolted the last party shuffle in 2012... READ MORE›

GOVERNMENT TO OFFER HOMELESS FAMILIES IN DUBLIN THE CHANCE OF HOUSE IN RURAL COUNTIES

The government will offer homeless families from Dublin the chance of a house in rural counties, in a radical bid to ease the current crisis... READ MORE›

THE TORIES ARE IGNORING THE WORSENING CRISES IN SOCIAL CARE, HEALTH AND WELFARE

Faced with the double dilemma of a growing elderly population and chronic underfunding from central government, the social care system in Britain is at breaking point... READ MORE›

CHINA'S PRESIDENT CONSOLIDATES POWER AT KEY MEETING BUT STILL FACES UPHILL BATTLE

BEIJING -- Chinese President Xi Jinping won a key victory Thursday in his battle to consolidate power and clean up the ruling Communist Party from within... READ MORE›

APOCALYPSE NOW: THE TRAGIC LEGACY OF CHINA'S 'PERNICIOUS KLEPTOCRACY'

China's flawed corruption crusade How the Tianjin disaster was the latest consequence of a system that places profit before public safety... READ MORE›

GORILLAS LIVING ON THE EDGE

"It is a tricky business because as you hang more pelts from the walls of Zhongnanhai [the leadership compound in Beijing] ..... READ MORE›

AS XI JINPING GETS ANOTHER 5-YEAR TERM CHINESE WONDER IF HELL BE ANOTHER PUTIN

BEIJING -- Xi Jinping's face dominates every wall and every section of a major new exhibition in the Chinese capital... READ MORE›

WHAT FATE AWAITS THE ONES SET FREE?

There was huge relief when 82 of the girls kidnapped by Islamist militants Boko Haram in Chibok, north-east Nigeria, in 2014 were freed on Saturday... READ MORE›

CHINA'S CHONGQING VOWS PURGE OF FORMER LEADER'S 'VILE INFLUENCE'

Everyone said they resolutely uphold the party's decision, resolutely practice the party's spirit and will resolutely purge Sun Zhengcai's vile influence, the paper said... READ MORE›

FACTBOX: WHAT TO WATCH FOR AT CHINA'S COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS

Xi is currently the party's general secretary, but not its chairman, a title Mao Zedong and his two successors, Hua Guofeng and Hu Yaobang, both held... READ MORE›

GLENCORE YET TO PUT UP ALL WARNING SIGNS A YEAR AFTER ALERT

Statements from the government and Glencore have been inconsistent on the extent of the contamination problem... READ MORE›

VENEZUELA IS IN CRISIS: WHERE IS ALL THIS HEADING?

Earlier this year, the government, through the top court, tried to take away all powers of the National Assembly... READ MORE›

OUSTED CHINESE OFFICIAL IS ACCUSED OF PLOTTING AGAINST COMMUNIST PARTY

Allegations offer new details of charges against Sun Zhengcai and pit him against not just the Communist Party but Chinas leader, Xi Jinping... READ MORE›

CHINA UNVEILS NEW LEADERSHIP LINE-UP NO OBVIOUS XI SUCCESSOR

Instead, both were named to the wider 25-member Politburo, a rung below the Standing Committee... READ MORE›

XI CURBS DISLOYALTY AS COMMUNIST PARTY EXPELS FORMER RISING STAR

Xinhua said 2,287 delegates were elected to attend the 19th Communist Party congress... READ MORE›

A GUIDE TO THE SECRETIVE RESORT MEETING FOR CHINA'S POLITICAL ELITE

Qin Yizhi, the group's current leader, is not on the delegate list for this year's party congress... READ MORE›

XI ALLY LI QIANG NAMED SHANGHAI PARTY BOSS

Xi ally Li Qiang named Shanghai party boss Xinhua... READ MORE›

'FLOODGATES OPEN' TO PAY CLAIMS AFTER GARDAI OFFERED SPECIAL DEAL

'floodgates open' to pay claims after gardai offered special..... READ MORE›

THE HIGH SOCIAL COST OF DOWNSIZING THE STATE

This means finding better ways of funding local services, rather than depending on unpredictable government grants... READ MORE›