Small businesses and union leaders have joined forces to demand a £1.2bn government-backed wage subsidy scheme that could prevent mass redundancies.

Thousands of indebted university graduates face a pay freeze on starting salaries because of the economic crisis. By Ben HarringtonWith the economy

The number of people out of work in the UK rose by another 81,000 between May and July, to 1.72 million, according to government figures.That took the official unemployment rate up from 5.

It's shameful that the British government still hasn't ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Tom Shakespeare               guardian.

As Brazil gears up for presidential elections in October, BBC Brasil's Paulo Cabral travels through remote mountains, arid countryside and deep jungle to find out what 21st Century politics mean in the Brazil that normally goes unreported.

I have just had a rather disturbing conversation with a guy in my As environmental science class, it all started as a guy described Goalball as a sport