Company will reduce the number of U.S. executives by 3% and overall U.S. salaried employment by 20% by the end of this year.

EVERY so often, I need my fix of Glasgow. It's a great city, and I like its people better than Edinburgh's for all the usual reasons: they're friendly, direct, and

DON'T you hate the way people bang on and on sanctimoniously about outdoor pursuits and how great the countryside is for developing life skills and forging connections wit

I CAN understand the reaction of our employees to the news that we propose closing our bottling plant at Kilmarnock, and the Port Dundas distillery.

NO SURGICAL procedure is 100 per cent safe, but liposuction has been used for many years now and there is a strong record of safety.

Public water, one of the most important legacies of Milwaukee's Socialist Party, which led the city almost continuously from 1910 to 1960, is now under attack from those who see a chance to convert this fundamental resource into a profit

Most schoolchildren are refusing to eat school lunches following the introduction of healthy menus after a campaign by Jamie Oliver new figures show.

Animal conservation must start in the classroom if we want to save the planet.

The golden age of higher education has gone laments Cassandra Jardine.

Academics are calling for a "mindless" new mathematics Alevel to be scrapped.

School lotteries should be introduced to combat "white flight" from innercity comprehensives according to researchers.

GORDON Brown met Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi for the first time yesterday, but sidestepped questions about the Lockerbie bomber.

IT IS perhaps the clearest example of money for nothing. Jim Hood, the Scots Labour MP, has admitted pocketing £625 a month - in addition to his MP's salary of £64,766 - a

SARAH Brown has twice declined to eat veal during her visit to Italy for the G8 summit, it emerged yesterday.

SCOTTISH prison governors have been handed £10,000 bonuses to prevent them being lured by higher salaries south of the Border.

ON WEDNESDAY evening, the Prince of Wales mounted a podium in his London home at St, James's Palace to deliver this year's BBC Dimbleby Lecture.

HUNDREDS of mourners paid their respects yesterday to five soldiers killed in Afghanistan in the past week.

THE mother of a soldier killed in a roadside attack in Iraq while in a Snatch Land Rover has won the first round of a legal battle for an investigation into the vehicles.

A HOSPITAL patient from Essex has become the first person without underlying health problems to die after contracting swine flu.