One in four pupils at independent schools in the UK is from a minority ethnic background and 5% are from overseas, Independent Schools Council data suggests.

Read more:
Private schools ‘show ethnic mix’

Media magnate Rupert Murdoch will appear next week before the independent British inquiry into journalistic ethics prompted by phone hacking at his defunct News of the World tabloid, the investigators said Thursday.

Read more here:
Rupert, James Murdoch called to testify

The Independent’s Simon Calder explains why Heathrow airport was so badly affected by the severe weather on Sunday.

See the original post here:
VIDEO: Heathrow flights hit by weather

The Independent Police Complaints Commission launches an investigation into the collapse of a police corruption trial in south Wales.

The rest is here:
Watchdog to review Lynette trial

For Independent Spirit and New York Film Critics Circle honors.

Read more:
Movie Award Nominees Announced

Sink your teeth into today's top stories from around the globe. Should you be charged a “slicing fee” when you BYOC (that's “bring your own cake”) to a restaurant? – The Independent If you've ever wondered how a 100-year-old champagne tastes, Jay McInerny can now enlighten you. – Wall Street Journal Mike Tyson spoofs Herman Cain's “Imagine There's No Pizza” – because he can. – Zagat That Twinkie craving may not be your fault, blame your mind: The brain tells us to eat junk food when we're hungry. – Guardian Macarons and macaroni have a lot more in common than you think. – Slate

Read more from the original source:
Box lunch: Cake fees and macaroon ties

As an author, writer and producer there is little Laila Al-Arian has done that she has not done well. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Alternet, The Independent, The Guardian, The Australian, United Press International, and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. She also co-wrote Collateral Damage: America’s War Against Iraqi Civilians (Nation Books) with Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges. The book is based on their 2007 Nation magazine investigative piece “The Other War,” which was selected as one of Project Censored’s 25 most important under-covered news stories of 2008. Currently, Laila is a producer at Al-Jazeera English (AJE) and here is what she had to say about her experience so far.

See more here:
Laila Al-Arian: Journalist Extraordinaire

The Congressional Budget Office is projecting that the nation’s unemployment rate will remain near 9 percent through 2012, representing a downgrade in the independent analyst’s economic prediction since a forecast released in August . CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf told members of a new congressional committee on deficit reduction created in the August debt deal that new economic data gathered in just the last few weeks has resulted in the dimmer projection. Read full article > >

Follow this link:
CBO head predicts slower economic growth before supercommittee

The Independent Commission on Banking is set to detail how banks should ring-fence operations vital for the UK economy.

Follow this link:
Banks’ ring fence to be unveiled

A campaign by the Independent Network to support local election candidates is launched by former MP Martin Bell.

Visit link:
Independents poll drive launched

The government’s handling of IT is locked in a “vicious circle of costs and failures” and moves at a “glacial” pace, the independent Institute for Government says

See the original post:
Government IT use ‘must change’

11:02 a.m. | Updated – Keith Olbermann, the former MSNBC anchor, will host a prime time program for Current TV, the low-rated cable channel co-founded by Al Gore. The one-hour program will begin sometime in the spring. Mr. Olbermann will also become the chief news officer for Current, the company said in a news release Tuesday. “We are delighted to provide Keith with the independent platform and freedom that Current can, and does uniquely offer,” Mr. Gore said in a statement. read more

Read the original:
Olbermann Said to Be Going to Current TV

The number of state secondary school pupils in England learning a language continues to decline, but no such decline is found in the independent sector, a study finds.

See the article here:
State school languages ‘decline’

Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut said his independent-minded approach to politics did not “fit comfortably into conventional political boxes.”

Read this article:
Lieberman Announces He Will Not Seek Re-election

It’s nice to see an old-school filibuster for a change: Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is into his seventh hour of obstructing the Senate’s vote on President Obama’s tax deal. The Independent from Vermont opposes the deal because he says it’s too…

Read the original here:
Sen. Sanders Filibusters Tax Deal