Brazilian Senate passes bill giving domestic servants same rig...

By LAUREN FRENCH | 05/24/13 9:32 AM EDT LOIS LERNER STRIKES A DEFIANT TONE — AGAIN. The civil servant who has found herself at the center of the IRS's tea party-targeting scandal is not going down without a fight. Lois Lerner was placed on ...

Canberra may be the meeting place of politicians and public servants, but the first community-run shared work space is set to give the city's start-ups a home. Entry 29 in Acton will be launched today and promises to be a hub of collaboration, ...

FOR the first time in the country's history, civil servants will start benefiting from soft loans to construct or buy low-cost houses come September this year through the Public Servant Housing Scheme recently introduced by the government. The ...

ALHAJI Kabir Yusuf, a staunch Muslim, is a 48-year-old civil servant, officially married to two wives. He spoke with BANKOLE SHAKIRUDEEN ADESHINA. Yusuf explained that temptations that drive men into polygamy include barrenness, sexual ...

Obama's speech reframed the rules of engagement on terrorism for the United States … Two White House reviews coming within three weeks of each other ... Lerner put on leave at IRS, more to come... The trickiness of immigration politics ...

The average wealth of the government's top officials is 1.83 billion won ($1.63 million), a government report has showed. The government's Public Ethic Committee disclosed on Friday the assets of 27 top senior civil servants, including President ...

Mexican Museum project clears shadow hurdle | Main | San Francisco's public servants got a solid B- from city residents in a biennial survey of how folks feel about the services they get for their tax money. While a B- might not sound so great, the ...

Old Point Comfort and Jamestown may have the distinction of being the first places associated with the arrival of Virginia's first Africans in 1619. But it wasn't until decades later that slavery really took off -- and when it did it was the south ...

Navin Jirel was just 12 when his mother died. Dad was a civil servant, and away often, so his brother and sister were sent off to an orphanage. Navin had to go and live with his uncle in Sindhupalchok. He didn't like it there and tried to get back ...