LONDON (Reuters) - A quarter of children have no basic savings account and many more have no savings role model as parents now borrow and spend, not scrimp and save, Nationwide Building Society said in a report.

Parents with savings of their own were more likely to open savings accounts for their children.

Those most likely to lose out were children of single parents. Two-thirds of ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A quarter of all children have no basic savings account and many more have no savings role model as parents now borrow and spend, not scrimp and save, Nationwide Building Society said in a report.

Parents with savings of their own were more likely to open savings accounts for their children.

Those most likely to lose out were children of single parents. Two-thirds...

KONYA, Turkey (Reuters) - Irina and her friends have no regrets about travelling thousands of kilometres (miles) from their native Latvia to this grey Anatolian town in mid-December. But then they have not come for the weather or the scenery.

They are converts to the mystical Sufi branch of Islam and are among tens of thousands of people converging on Konya for an annual festival marking ...

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University of Luton reveals merger plan New institution to be created for county

A new university will be created for Bedfordshire with the merger of the University of Luton and De Montfort University in Bedford.

The plan, ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Bulgarian who has become the first European to rise to sumo's second-highest rank was lauded as the continent's best envoy to Japan on Wednesday, but the giant grappler said he was simply doing his job.

Kaloyan Stefanov Mahlyanov, 22, known as Kotooshu in the sumo ring, was promoted to "ozeki" status last month, another sign of the dominance of foreigners in the anci...

Nearing the end of a year in Iraq, Army Sgt. Bob Knowles and his closest friends became disillusioned. And not because they thought the war was a mistake; they didn't have time to think about that.

"Guys were away from their wives and their kids, away from their families and home. After 13 months, you're tired," says Knowles, 28, of Pottstown, Pa. "It's not a kind of tired you can slee...

Many of the 15,000 out of state students attending Iowa's public universities will drive home after finals but the long drive home is no time to start resting.

Inside Iowa City's Old Capitol Town Center students filling the food court stuff themselves with statistics for finals.

Those words describe hours of hitting the books and late nights cramming.

University of Iowa Grad...

OTTAWA (CP) - The Bush administration issued a sharp, public rebuke Tuesday to Prime Minister Paul Martin for dragging the Canada-U.S. relationship into federal electoral politics.

Ambassador David Wilkins' unprecedented, mid-campaign sortie drew an immediate, flag-waving riposte from Martin, who came to office in 2003 promising a more mature relationship with Washington. "I will defend ...

The Orangeburg Lioness Club meeting for the month of December was called to order by the Lioness President Frankie Sapp. Lioness Sapp welcomed the many guests, and turned the meeting over to Lioness Ann Sherman who introduced the guests for the evening. The guests for the evening were the Orangeburg Community Choir with Director, Garnet Trimble and accompanist, Veida Stitt.

The choir ent...

EVERETT, Wash. - Decades after he engineered Boeing Co.'s original jumbo jet, the father of the storied 747 said Tuesday that he expects big things from the latest version of the double-decker behemoth.

Speaking to some 2,000 employees gathered for a celebration at the assembly plant in this city north of Seattle, Joe Sutter noted that the current version of the plane, the 747-400, has b...