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(11 Nov) - European Union countries can block jobless immigrants from receiving welfare benefits, Europe's top court said on Tuesday, in a ruling likely to aid British Prime Minister David Cameron's efforts to tackle so-called 'welfare tourism'. Under growing pressure from the anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP) ahead of a... 

Bhubaneswar, India (12 Nov) - Nem Bai was told getting a tubectomy would be an easy process - that she'd be home by sunset, a few hundred rupees richer and back to work in the fields within two days. A hospital in India Instead, the 35-year-old mother-of-five was incapacitated within hours of having the surgery at a mass sterilization... 

Roy Ngerng With regard to blogger Roy Ngerng's recent legal episode, it is important for us to understand that Singapore courts have a genuine cause for thwarting the abuse of the constitutional right to freedom of speech ("Blogger Roy Ngerng found to have defamed PM Lee"; last Saturday). If we were to allow anyone to write,...