NEARLY one in four people claims they are unable to get a mortgage due to the tighter lending criteria being used by banks and building societies, a survey showed today.

AN INCREASINGLY war-weary public has been told to expect further casualties in Afghanistan, after the conflict claimed the life of a seventh British serviceman in as many days

The congressional battle could be a fierce one.

Support groups assist with networking, career coaching and restoring hope to the unemployed.

A prison informer gave up details of a planned hit in April: A drug dealer wanted a federal prosecutor dead. The prosecutor had put him away; now he was willing to pay someone to kill her.

Although the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints expects members to trace their ancestors to the year 1500, it runs a world-class facility in Mesa that helps church members like Powell and non-members alike.

Arizona and other states have largely failed to spend stimulus money intended for low-income housing, the GAO reports.

The Party of Regions keeps blocking the VRU podium and presidium, the ForUm's correspondent informs. Posters with slogans to increases living wage are still on the walls of the session hall. About 30 MPs from the PR are present at

Leader of PR Viktor Yanukovych is on a working visit to the Crimea. He stated that representatives of the PR in all oblasts of Ukraine intend to explain reality of increase of social payments by means of mass media, ForUm's

Ukraine may lose OJSC Luhanskteplovoz, the Front For Change initiative leader MP Arseniy Yatseniuk said, ForUm informs, referring to Kyiv Post. "In fact we are on the brink of losing Luhanskteplovoz," he said at a meeting with reporters in Luhansk

BYuT and OU-PSD factions sabotage the session of the budget committee which considers draft law on increase of living wage and minimal salary. Deputy chairman of the PR faction Oleksandr Yefremov told the journalists today, the ForUm's correspondent informs. "Yesterday

Germany is interested in long-term cooperation with Ukraine in the sphere of energy saving and alternative energy, the press service of Ukrainian First Vice Premier Oleksandr Turchynov said, according to UkrInform. At a meeting with Turchynov, German Federal Environment Minister

The BYuT faction does not exclude that the Party of Regions will unblock the VRU today. MP from the BYuT faction Serhiy Mishchenko told journalists, the ForUm's correspondent informs. According to him, the PR has found a new motive, in

The Russian corporation TVEL is ready to found the enterprise of strategic function for construction of the nuclear fuel plant in 2009. The company is ready to assign the necessary funds for financing of the project in 2009 and 2010,

Less than a fortnight left for her first trip to India as the Secretary of State, Clinton had a breakfast meeting with more than a dozen top Congressional leaders from both Democratic and Republican parties on Wednesday, coming from both

The helicopter with four passengers and the captain crashed 500 meters short of the helipad near the cave shrine on Thursday morning. A woman pilgrim on the ground was killed on the spot while five occupants of the helicopter were

We are apologising because it wasn't our intent to offend anyone,' Denise T Wilson, spokesman of Burger King told PTI in an email when asked about the demand of the Hindu community that the company need to apologise for running

The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday adjourned hearing on a petition challenging the probe by Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team into Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 62 others' alleged involvement in 2002 post-Godhra riots till July 17.

The G-8 nations have failed to agree on the issue of climate change. According to G8 leaders' Declaration on world economy, climate change, development and Africa issued on Wednesday, the rich and the most industrialised nations of the world have

A young NRI, also an ardent fan of pop icon Michael Jackson, jumped to his death in London after fearing that he may lose his stockbroker job.