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A university appearance by an Islamic extremist who has endorsed the murder of gays has been cancelled following complaints from human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.

Cross-border anti-terrorist co-operation between the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the Garda Síochána is at the centre of a new security strategy aimed at cracking down on dissident republican death squads.

Peace talks were held last week between the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia in the hope of preventing an outbreak of hostilities in one of Europe’s frozen conflicts – that of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Workers in the financial services industry, who this year have suffered unprecedented job losses in the eye of an economic storm fuelled by the global recession, have vowed to fight back against attacks on terms and conditions in the sector.

The government of Sri Lanka has finally agreed to start freeing the tens of thousands of Tamil civilians it has been holding in Army-run detention camps.

Schools must admit pupils from a wide range of abilities in order to overcome “the segregation of socio-economic groups in education”, according to a report by a leading educational charity this week.

The Government’s level of deficit spending is “fine” and should not be reduced until economic recovery has stabilised, the EEF manufacturers’ body said this week.

Natural resources such as water, air, soil and trees – what is their commercial value and what is humanity prepared to pay for them?

The University and College Union, which represents staff in higher education, has warned that a public funding crisis is putting the international reputation of Britain’s universities at risk.