City believe technicality will prevent Uefa sanction Manchester City's refusal to accept sanctions for breaching Uefa's financial fair play (FFP) rules may be because the club believe they only failed on a technicality, financial analyst Ed Thompson believes.

Shopworkers come out firmly against the government’s NHS privatisation agenda, declaring that the country only has a year to save it

Racist changes to articles on Wikipedia glorying in killing or enslaving black people are linked to a government IP address, adding to scandal of a Wikipedia page on the Hillsborough disaster being amended to include the words “blame Liverpool fans”

Survey shows big rise in electronic cigarette use; RMT holds last-ditch talks with London Underground to stop strikes; Government says Electoral Commission must be investigated over far-right 'Remember Lee Rigby' election slogan

Hundreds of activists march to the presidential palace in Cairo to call for the scrapping of an anti-protest law passed by Egypt’s army-backed interim leadership in November

Demonstration highlights poor conditions of migrant workers

by Kadeem Simmonds

Chris Searle on Jazz

Three thousand people have been added to the dole queues in Yorkshire and the Humber region over the last three months and women are bearing the brunt

Workers bussed home for easter as strike reaches 12-week mark

Independence could be a chance for Labour in Scotland to break with the austerity consensus, says BOB HOLMAN

Figures from the Office of National Statistics expose truth of Tory Chancellor's 'improving economy' as working families suffer falling disposable income

Pacific powers conclude 15-year tariff-reduction pact after seven years of fruitless talks

Democrat congressmen deny all knowledge of 'dumb, dumb, dumb' black propaganda campaign as Cuba denounces 'subversive' US

Unite Against Fascism praises 'precedent-setting' council leader as racist nazis are denied city-centre rally

Demonstrators target jobcentres and Atos offices

Demonstrators had gathered in the village of Balcombe in protest against energy firm Cuadrilla's fracking test site there

Scottish Labour has voted for Holyrood to raise 40 per cent of its own revenue if the country remains in Britain.

The trade union movement remains the strongest force for a better Scotland for all, argues RICHARD LEONARD

MICHAL BONCZA reports on an extraordinary memorial to victims of the Utoya massacre in Norway

Authorities order Adidas to suspend sale of T-shirts that sexualise Brazil's image

G4S provides security and incarceration "services" to Israeli military bases, checkpoints, illegal settlements and prisons

Tamil Nadu government rules that former prime minister's 7 killers have served their time

Wolverhampton hit by Con-Dem slashing

Two-thirds of those affected are disabled, which explains the mass booing of George Osborne last summer when he had the front to turn up to award prizes to Paralympic competitors

by Amar Azam at Ashburton Grove

Vatican adopted policies that allowed priests to rape tens of thousands of children

Fifteen years on from the Good Friday Agreement, the poison of sectarianism continues to thrive, writes Ruairi Creaney

by Kaleem Aftab at Craven Cottage

The over-the-hill boxer who appeared in the popular tournament this week was a shadow of the legend I saw train in the 1990s, says John Wight

The fallen great has a shot at redemption in China next month, writes David Charlesworth

Refinery workers hold vigil against 'opportunist' Ineos bullying

Angry probation staff pack out Parliament

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay calls for compensation

The two rivals are on collision course in Korea, writes Alex Ballard

Light Blues reveal financial results

The right-wing propaganda machine is not invincible, writes PAUL DONOVAN

Everyone a victim in riveting thriller

CIARAN BERMINGHAM enjoys a production of Brecht's In The Jungle Of Cities, a satire on the false freedom of capitalism

Women are bearing the brunt of the austerity agenda - but it doesn't have to be like this. Anita Wright explains.

Government frees 11 but many more still stuck behind bars

Paul Donovan reports from a parliamentary meeting on the fate of children whose parents have been sent to prison

In rejecting Blair’s legacy the leader of the opposition tapped into an older and more cautious tradition