The United States newly appointed Ambassador to Ukraine, John Tefft, will arrive in Kyiv on December 2, Ukrainian MFA spokesman Valeriy Dzhyhun has announced Wednesday, according to UKRINFORM. "We have already received confirmation that the U.S. ambassador arrives in Kyiv

Ukraine may receive the fourth tranche of the International Monetary Fund loan before the elections, in 2009, says Valeriy Lytvytskyi, head of the group of advisers to the central bank governor, National radio reported.He referred to the continuing dialogue between

Ukraine will have to pay about $280 per 1,000 cubic meters of Russian gas in 2010, a spokesman for Russia's energy giant Gazprom said on Wednesday, according to RIA Novosti.Sergei Kupriyanov told the Moscow-based Echo Moskvy radio station that the

54.7 percent of Ukrainian population say the language question is not vital at the moment, according to the public opinion poll held by the Ukrainian Democratic Circle on the Politics Institute's order. 28.3% of the pollees say the issue may

Ukrainian citizens going to the Holy Land with a group can obtain visas in 48 hours.The Israeli government announced on Wednesday about simplification of the visa procedures for the Ukrainians. According to Israeli Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov, the last innovation

A bad teacher can cost pupils up to half a grade at GCSE, according to new research.

Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, is creating a thick screen of purest smoke after David Cameron's statement that the Government has paid money to schools run by leading members or activists of the anti-Western, extremist group Hizb ut Tahrir (HT).

Telegraph View The Government's plan to curb domestic violence with lessons in schools will confuse children, without solving the problem.

As Abingdon School breaks with tradition to appoint a female head, Rebecca Willis recalls the 'trauma' of being educated with boys.

Children will be given an "immediate" detention for misbehaving at school under Tory plans to scrap existing 24 hours' notice for parents.

A decision to award £113,000 of taxpayers' money to schools once linked to an "extremist" Muslim group has been condemned by David Cameron.

THE shadow chancellor pledges today that Scotland would be guaranteed powers to raise revenue from taxation under a Conservative government.

SCOTTISH ministers were last night under pressure to intervene early in a pay row between councils and their employees as the two sides braced themselves for a protracted dis

SNP ministers have been accused of being soft on crime after a Scottish Government paper recommended extending fixed-penalty notices (FPNs) to minor assault, minor the

THE government was told only days before the Iraq invasion that Saddam Hussein might be unable to use his chemical weapons, the official inquiry into the war has heard.

A FORMER community councillor who threatened to buy a gun and storm a meeting to shoot three former colleagues has been jailed for a total of 16 months.

IT MIGHT seem like an exercise in finding out the blindingly obvious, but that didn't stop council officials in Scotland's capital spending thousands of pounds ask

THE sharing of services between several councils and within council areas is now seen as the only way forward for local government and the public sector if they are to meet u

WHAT is the contemporary case for Scottish independence? Next Monday, the SNP government will set out details for holding a referendum on the issue.

IT IS perhaps inevitable that acts of the Scottish Parliament likely to affect people's livelihoods, property or liberty will attract close attention - and in some cases o