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GCSEs and A-levels are currently set to the same standard in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but Michael Gove said it was hard to see how this could continue.

A large fire that broke out in the hotel Astir in the western port of Patra on Tuesday was brought under control by a unit of 30 firefighters manning 10 fire engines.

A current of hostility to gays and other minorities undercuts the country's efforts to burnish its image as it takes the EU helm.

For months, European central bankers have been warning of dislocation between financial markets and the real economy.

In this photo Thursday, April 25, 2013 Lucy Butler,15, getting ready to have her measles jab at All Saints School in Ingleby Barwick, Teesside, England, as a national vaccination catch-up campaign has been launched to curb a rise in measles cases in England.

A McHenry area man was arrested on Saturday night for allegedly treatening U.S. Embassy officials in Serbia as well as Serbians in Chicago over a visa dispute regarding his Serbian wife.

Mr. Harper, then the Leader of the Canadian Alliance, and Don Plett, who was the party's president, were looking for a director of political operations.

A former helicopter pilot is to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station , it has been confirmed.

Former helicopter pilot Major Tim Peake, 41, who is to become the first UK sstronaut in space for more than 20 years A former Army test pilot is to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station - and says it will be less dangerous than his old job.

Many duped savers at Spanish lender Bankia are shunning a state-supervised compensation scheme in favour of expensive lawsuits, prolonging a mis-selling scandal and complicating efforts to restore faith in the banking system.

At least one person was killed and around a dozen injured Sunday when a string of tornadoes tore through four states, ripping roofs off homes, downing power lines and tossing trees like matchsticks.

Spanish researchers have studied how job stress affects cardiovascular health. The results, published in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health , link this situation to dyslipidemia, a disorder that alters the levels of lipids and lipoproteins in the blood.

A rising star in Britain's Labour Party, described by some as the "British Barack Obama," Chuka Umunna urged the United Kingdom to more aggressively forge ties with West Africa's fast-growing economies.

An independent Scotland would have a vastly oversized financial sector that would leave it vulnerable to a Cyprus-style banking crisis, Britain's finance ministry says.

Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on fishing trip nearly a decade ago.

There has been a great deal of misunderstanding about Alice Cooper's controversial song I Love the Dead , the last track on his classic 1973 Billion Dollar Babies album.

Brian Kent, 46, is dragged under water off the coast of Sperlonga during a swim with his wife after a lunch with family.

51% believe the prosecution acted without prejudice and political bias in probing and seizing the ballots - 86% of the supporters of the far-right nationalist Ataka party, 78% of those backing BSP , 58% of people who voted for smaller parties which did not pass the 4% threshold to win Parliamentary seats, 49% of GERB 's voters and about 33% of ... (more)

About 100,000 protesters, led by trade unionists, have rallied in the Italian capital Rome against the policies of the new coalition government.

Karima el-Mahroug is escorted outside the Milan's Law court by two Carabinieri police officers after giving her testimony at the trial of three former Berlusconi aides accused with procuring her and other woman for prostitution.