Health and safety at work

RAILWAY passengers are facing potential disruption to services after the UK's largest transport union threatened industrial action over human waste being flushed on rail tracks.

Two services have been held to mark the 80th anniversary of Gresford pit disaster which claimed the lives of 266 miners in Wrexham in 1934.

Hundreds of garment workers pass out in Cambodian textile factories every year. As they fight for a raise in the minimum wage from US$100 to US$177 a month, Luc Forsyth finds that poverty wages are largely to blame…

A trade union says factories are lax on safety regulations.

More than 3,000 students in Wales slept last year in university bedrooms containing asbestos, BBC Wales has learned.

Charlotte Walker trains people to be the go-to person in the office if someone gets badly stressed or has a meltdown.

An NHS worker who was stabbed to death at Wotton Lawn psychiatric hospital in Gloucester on Wednesday morning has been named by police as health care assistant Sharon Wall.

With just two days to go until the 2014 World Cup opener in Sao Paulo, an accident at a construction project to build a monorail in Brazil’s largest city has killed a worker.

War on Want campaigners attended the G4S Annual General Meeting and called for an end to the company’s complicity in Israel’s illegal occupation and the imprisonment and torture of Palestinians, including children.

Firms in Wales whose staff are treated for asbestos-related illnesses will not be ordered to reimburse the NHS, the Supreme Court has ruled.

At least 18 workers have been trapped hundreds of metres underground after a coal mining accident in southern Turkey, officials say.

An explosion at a fireworks factory in China has killed at least 12 people and injured 33 others, local government officials say.

Ukip plans to oust John Bercow, the Speaker, as constituents raise questions over the appointment of Carol Mills

Israel started construction on hundreds of housing units in the West Bank and Jerusalem since its assault on the Gaza Strip began in early July, Palestinian experts on settlement issues in the West Bank said.Experts told the Anadolu news agency that Isra

Pro-Palestine protests are to be ‘scaled back’ after a pro-Israel campaigner inviting the English Defence League to join the Manchester rally, MM can reveal.

Protests outside the Jewish-owned outside Kedem Cosmetics shop on King Street have been frequent in recent weeks in response to the on-going conflict in Gaza.

An explosion in a Chinese coal mine has trapped 27 workers underground, according to state media reports.

A visit of Bangladeshi officials to Washington backfires

For Martin Ayala, a supermarket clerk who handles food,

Honduras says 11 men remain trapped in a small gold mine, despite earlier reports that most had been rescued.