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Union boss Derek SimpsonBritain's biggest union is to form a new international super-union with an American counterpart. Unite has announced a merger with the US-based United Steelworkers union.

Philip Watling

In December 1994, I was hit by a car and suffered a massive head injury. I was airlifted to hospital by helicopter and stayed there for five months, but recovered so well I was able to write an autobiographical account of my accident - a tale of my life, my death and my resurrection.

Christine Waverly

Travelling a little farther than you have originally planned might require you to be safer health-wise. There are many vaccines that your country’s health department recommends before you get somewhere else. One to combat malaria is the most common especially for people travelling to destinations such as South America and South east Asia.

Almost 300,000 US soldiers who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan, the equivalent of one out of every five veterans of those wars, are suffering from depression and other psychological disorders, according to a study by the Rand Corporation think tank.

Josh Gerstein, New York Sun

Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing.

Nick Davies

Another example of propaganda running straight through a quality UK newspaper has surfaced since I wrote my book Flat Earth News, published this month. It occurred in the mid 1990s, but it is a foretaste of what happened in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and of what has continued to happen in relation to the Iranian nuclear programme.

Thousands of illegitimate mixed-race children fathered by Black American GIs during the second world war were given up by their British mothers and shipped across the Atlantic, according to newly released papers.