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Minister sets 5-yr income hurdle for non-EU staff By EMILY ASHTON, Whitehall Correspondent UK facing influx of low quality immigrants each year (UK, 2 Feb) – FOREIGNERS working in Britain will be kicked out after five years if they earn less than £31,000 a year. Immigration Minister Damian Green is to unveil the... 

(New Delhi) – Indian doctors have reported the country’s first cases of “totally drug-resistant tuberculosis,” a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease. It’s not the first time highly resistant cases like this have been seen. Since 2003, patients have been documented... 

James Murdoch, the chairman of News International, which owns the newspaper, announced that the final edition would be published this weekend, citing the “inhuman” alleged behaviour of some staff as prompting the decision. The 168-year-old newspaper will donate all this weekend’s revenues to good causes and would... 

Less than three years after receiving $10 billion in bailout money from American taxpayers, Goldman Sachs informed its employees recently that it will fire 1,000 workers in the United States and elsewhere, shifting their jobs to the cheaper Singaporean labor market. According to Fox Business, Goldman Sachs has quietly informed... 

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia has imposed new quotas on companies in the kingdom to employ local staff, with cuts in permits for foreign workers if they fail to comply. The labour ministry on Saturday launched the latest stage of its “Nitaqat” (Ranges) programme aimed at prodding local firms to employ... 

Japan’s damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima has been emitting radioactive iodine and caesium at levels approaching those seen in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Austrian researchers have used a worldwide network of radiation detectors – designed to spot clandestine nuclear bomb tests – to show... 

Barisan Nasional’s apathy towards the use of the Internet was a major contributor to its losses in the recent general election, a new study revealed. The study by Zentrum Future Studies Malaysia, conducted from Feb 20 to March 5 and involving 1,500 respondents aged between 21 and 50, showed that the alternative media... 

Journalists were shown the ruined building in Col Gaddafi's Tripoli compound A missile strike on Libyan leader Col Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli has destroyed a building which coalition officials said was a command centre. It comes as a coalition of countries including the US, UK and France continue strikes to... 

A French plane has fired the first shots in Libya as enforcement of the UN-mandated no-fly zone begins. The UK prime minister later confirmed British planes were also in action, while US media reports said the US had fired its first Cruise missiles. The action came hours after Western and Arab leaders met in Paris to agree... 

Lifting the Veil of Nuclear Catastrophe and Cover-up: A Doomsday Scenario Unfolds With Characteristic Foolishness Only after the last tree has been cut down… the last river has been poisoned… the last fish caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. – Chief Seattle For there shall arise false mesiahs,...