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Brown calls on public to cut food wastage
Britons can help bring food prices down by cutting the amount they waste every year, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday.
We're throwing away a fortune in food
The amount of good food Britons throw away unnecessarily is at record levels, according to a study on Thursday, costing the economy 10 billion pounds a year.
African leaders call on G8 to honour aid pledge
African leaders urged the Group of Eight rich nations on Monday to keep promises to help their continent and pleaded with them to remember that soaring oil and food prices were making their poverty worse.
A tomato by any other name? Experts set food rules
Food safety experts agreed for the first time on the qualities defining a tomato, in a first step toward an international code on preventing fruit and vegetable contamination.
EU, greens urge Bush to back 2050 emissions target
The European Union and green groups piled pressure on the United States on Monday to agree to a target to halve global greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century and back the need for rich countries to set 2020 goals as well.
Anglicans eye tense Synod debate on women bishops
Anglicans are anticipating a tense debate on the consecration of women bishops at the Church of England's General Synod on Monday.
Church in Wales gives away first Child-Friendly Church Award
Lively music, an active Sunday School and a warm family feel - that was the winning formula for a church which has just won the Church in Wales's first Child-Friendly Church Award.
Australian Catholic abuse victims want apology from Pope
Victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests and brothers in Australia, like Jose Respall who still vividly recalls being fondled at age 11, are calling on Pope Benedict to apologise when he arrives in Sydney on Sunday.
Fix eyes on future, not past, says Welsh Archbishop
The church will only grow if it looks forwards, rather than back, the Archbishop of Wales told the people of St Davids Diocese at a festival of thanksgiving on Saturday.
Charities tell G8 not to turn backs on Africa
Charities warn Group of Eight nations not to renege on their commitments to Africa as they meet for the G8 Summit in Japan on Monday.
China Olympic city battles 'invading' algae
In China's Olympic co-host city Qingdao, sea breezes that usually bring relief from baking summer temperatures now bring a cloying stench from a massive algae bloom that locals fear will harm the city's bucolic image during the Games.
Police arrest five in knife killing of 16 year old
Police said on Sunday they had arrested four young males and one girl in connection with the knife killing last week of a 16-year-old boy on a street in south London.
Brown vows no return to strong union past
Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged on Monday to resist calls for greater union rights, saying full employment would be achieved with a flexible workforce rather than by strikes.
Car bomb hits India Embassy in Kabul
A suicide car bomb hit two diplomatic vehicles entering the Indian Embassy in Kabul on Monday, killing or wounding at least 30 people, witnesses and Afghan media said.
Report calls for new look at biofuels
A British government report on food policy to be published on Monday says the link between demand for biofuels and rising world food prices needs to be more closely examined.
Persimmon cuts 1,000 jobs
House builder Persimmon will confirm on Tuesday that it has made around 1,000 staff redundant, the Telegraph reported on Monday, without citing sources.