Only Skilled Migrants Will Be Allowed into UK in New Policy – Theresa May.

Prime Minister Theresa May has said that Britain is introducing a migration policy that ends free movement allowing only skilled migrants from various parts of the world. We're introducing a new skills-based immigration system that ends the free movement. So that for the first time in decades, this country will control and choose who we want to come here. 

Sharmarke Dubow Former refugee casts first ballot as Canadian, then wins council seat.

A lot of politicians scored big wins in the civic elections Saturday, but it’s hard to imagine any of them had a day like Sharmarke Dubow. The former Somali refugee not only voted for the first time as a Canadian citizen, but he also won a seat on Victoria city council.“What was overwhelming was people putting trust in me trusting that I would represent them,” he said Monday.

Family of Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Leicester football players gather to pay tribute to club owner.

PLAYERS HAVE ARRIVED at Leicester City Football Club to pay tribute to Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, the club’s owner who died in a helicopter crash outside the King Power Stadium on Saturday.

The Irish people have voted to remove blasphemy offence from the Constitution.

THE IRISH PEOPLE have passed a referendum to remove the offence of blasphemy from the Constitution. In a resounding result, 64.85% of people (951,650) voted Yes to change Article 40.6.1˚i of the Constitution, which read

Breast ‘Cancer Was The Best Thing to Happen To Me’: Survivor Recalls Life-affirming Battle.

“Happy birthday to me. I turned 34 today… I am documenting this to remind me that I have to take care of myself. I am just doing the small things I enjoy to celebrate the year, which is a pretty big deal.”Edo-abasi McGee, a pharmacist and professor in metro Atlanta, wrote those words in her journal in February, about four months before her doctors told her she was breast cancer-free.

No Natural Hair, No Work’: Liberia’s Finance Minister Bans Employees With ‘Unnatural’ Hair.

Liberia’s Ministry of Finance has publicly ordered its security guards to restrict any female employee with “unnatural hair” or any colour extensions from entering the office complex effect from October 1, 2018.

'We've All Just Been Crying Endlessly;'Remembering the 11 Slain in Synagogue Massacre.

Siblings, a husband and wife and a grandfather of three were among the 11 worshipers decent, generous and faithful-hearted slain at Saturday morning services in a Pittsburgh synagogue, authorities said.The victims’ identities were released by the medical examiner’s office after the next of kin had been notified of their deaths, allegedly at the hands of Robert Bowers, who is in custody.Six others were wounded, including four responding police officers.

One Glove at a Time:'Mittens for Detroit' Is Warming Hearts and Hands.

Actress Erin Cummings was helping her cousin hand out Halloween candy in Detroit when a mother and her two daughters came to the door. The entire family was really upset, Cummings recalls.“One little girl was shivering and crying and clutching her bare hand with her other mittened hand. And my cousin leaned down and said, ‘Why are you crying? You’re missing a glove? Are you cold?’ ” Cummings said. “It was very cold that night like an unusually cold Halloween night my cousin invited the girls and their mom inside to get warm.”Cummings’ cousin gave the girl a spare pair of gloves, hugged her and gave her a piece of candy. The family had been miserable and heading home but the new gloves changed their mood and they decided to continue trick-or-treating.

Everything you need to know to keep yourself, your kids and your pets safe this Halloween.

IT IS ALMOST ‘trick or treat’ time and while Halloween is a fun occasion, some of the celebrations have their risks. The public has been advised by authorities who stress they are not trying to spoil anyone’s fun to be sensible this Halloween. Emergency services, in particular, have said they do not want to see a repeat of serious injuries they have seen in previous years.

The Irish For... Some spooky Irish words to get you in the mood for Samhain.

EMILY DICKINSON ONCE remarked that November is the Norway of the year, a line that loses one of its beauty even when we disagree as to what she meant by it. As a resident of Dublin, my view is that she was alluding to the Norwegian invention of dynamite, given the constant bangers that punctuate the evenings of the eleventh month.