UNIONS last night launched a blistering attack on the management of an oil refinery for failing to hold discussions after dismissing hundreds of staff.

FIRST World War veteran Henry Allingham is officially the world's oldest man â€" but the news may take some time to sink in.

AT LEAST 100 people are killed by sunbeds each year in the UK, and many hundreds more suffer cancer or disfiguring injuries, a hard-hitting report revealed yesterday.

MORTGAGE lenders have been accused of profiteering in the wake of a surge of increases to fixed-rate deals.

FAMILIES of four servicemen killed in Snatch Land Rovers in Iraq and Afghanistan are suing the Ministry of Defence for compensation, their lawyer said yesterday.

Firefighters were wrapping up work on a brush fire in north Cave Creek's Spur Cross Regional Park Saturday morning.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - Sheriff's officials in Yavapai County have recovered the body of a hiker believed to have fallen from a trail paralleling Oak Creek Canyon.

Phoenix residents saw just a trace of rain at the airport Friday night, and weather officials are anticipating Saturday to be mostly clear and sunny with a high of 100 degrees.

A toddler and two adults are dead, three people are injured after a car and an SUV collide at 87th Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road.

A Gilbert man who was an accountant for an Internet-based prostitution operation has been sentenced to three years in prison.

The first vice PM Oleksandr Turchynov is not against of presidential election on January 17, 2010. He said that on air of TV channel, answering the question whether BYuT will support idea on presidential election for November 2009, the ForUm's

At his joint press conference with the President of Serbia Boris Tadic President Victor Yushchenko said that Ukraine supports Serbia in its aspiration to join the WTO, president's press office reported. "This is our brotherly nation, we have long common

Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko has said that the police will not support any political force during the presidential campaign, ForUm informs, referring to Interfax-Ukraine. "I think that everybody who remembers my activity as Ukraine's interior minister in 2006, when

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko says that the total internal debt on gas payments to Naftogaz Ukraine makes UAH 26 billion, including UAH 7.7 billion debt of heating and communal companies. Yulia Tymoshenko said that today during the meeting

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko calls the situation with payments for consumed gas as "very complicated". "I gathered you because I think the situation on gas payments is a very complicated, tense and even dangerous," Prime Minister said that

As of January 1, 2009 the number of Ukraine's resident population was 45,963,359 people (after 46,192.3 as of January 1, 2008, and 45,881,048 as of May 1, 2009), the State Statistics Committee reported. The number of women exceeded the number

For five month of the current year the bodies of the Interior affairs of Ukraine revealed 4800 crimes concerning theft of the state money, the head iof the Interior Ministry Yuriy Lutsenko informed. "It is much bigger than last year.

Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko is preparing lawsuits against several Ukrainian politicians regarding their comments on the so-called "Frankfurt incident," the minister said on Thursday in Lviv, Kyiv Post reported. "I'm preparing law suits against several Ukrainian politicians who accused me

New Dynamo Kyiv coach Valery Gazzaev hopes to take Andriy Shevchenko back to the Ukrainian championsm according to Mail online. The Chelsea striker is unwanted at Stamford Bridge and the club are considering paying up £7million to cancel his contract.

US President Barack Obama exuded confidence that the nuclear weapons of Pakistan are safe and secure, about which a lot of concerns have been expressed in the recent past. "I have confidence that the Pakistani government has safeguarded its nuclear