Improving and enhancing the job skills of the UK workforce is the key to economic success, the PM Gordon Brown has said.

The 2008 Festival underlines Glyndebourne's commitment to new opera with a major new commission from the Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös, together with new productions of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea and Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel.

Brontë Parsonage Museum purchased two letters written by Charlotte and Patrick Brontë at Christie’s auction house in London. The two letters were amongst those from the Albin Schram Collection of Autographed Letters which were discovered in a laundry room in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The UK's Royal Air Force has launched fighter jets to intercept eight Russian military planes flying in airspace patrolled by NATO, UK officials say.

The entire population and every UK visitor should be added to the national DNA database, a senior judge has said.

British based choreographer Rafael Bonachela is completing a ground-breaking residency in Cuba with the world-premiere of his new work Demo-n/Crazy, a collaboration with Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, at The Gran Teatro de la Habana on Thursday 30 August.

The number of eastern European workers registering in the UK has dropped for the second quarter in a row.

Glyndebourne Opera on Tour announces its repertoire for Autumn 2007, under the leadership of new Music Director Robin Ticciati. Fresh from the success of his Festival debut, which won him plaudits as a remarkable and exciting emergent talent, Robin Ticciati will conduct a revival of Richard Jones’s production of Verdi’s Macbeth, following its sell-out run at the 2007 Festival.

Around one in eight British shoppers and consumers has bought a counterfeit watch, handbag or other product in the last year as it becomes more socially acceptable, a study by lawyers Davenport Lyons and Ledbury Research has found.

Russia and UK both have major economical interests as more than forty six joint ventures that feel the heat of this diplomatic row, engendered due to Litvinenko's death in Britain. World politics both have pivotal role to play.

Visa Application Centers Launch in Germany to Provide Comprehensive Information Services

Peter Lewis, the Chairman of GAME, a leading European specialist retailer of PC and video games hardware and software, has made the following statement in advance of the Annual General Meeting at July 5.