Full Text: US President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address [VIDEO]
President Obama calls for 'year of action' in his annual State of the Union address.
Fatcat FTSE 100 Chiefs Earn £4m a Year, £1,000 an Hour… And £18 a Minute
High Pay Centre says executive pay increased by 74% over past decade.
New York Mayor Bill De Blasio Takes on Super Rich
New mayor's pledge to hike taxes on rich provokes anger as battle lines are drawn.
Top New Year's Resolutions for Working Conditions in 2014
Some of IBTimes UK's global business team reveal their wishes for the new year for workers
Nelson Mandela Memorial Service: South African President Jacob Zuma's Speech [FULL TEXT]
There is no one quite like Madiba, President Jacob Zuma tells Johannesburg's FNB Stadium
Men Pensioners Twice as Well-off as Women in Retirement
ONS data shows only 46% of women pensioners received full basic state pensions
Singapore Little India Riots Seen Fuelled by Alcohol as Probe Under Way
Man of Indian origin killed under bus, sparking violence, said to have been drunk.
Nelson Mandela Memorial Service: As it Happened [VIDEO]
World says goodbye to former South African president Nelson Mandela
Unlike France, the UK's Approach to Prostitution Reeks of Cowardice and Inertia
While the French parliament has taken strong action to reform the prostitution industry, Britain still buries its head in the sand.
Tesco's Philip Clarke Warns George Osborne on Squeezed Home Finances
Tesco boss Clarke sounds alarm over painful income decline for UK consumers.
UK Pay Inequality: Women Paid Thousands Less Than Men
The TUC says women are still earning on average almost £5,000 a year less than men.
Labour MP Blasts Cameron's Record on Women
MP Chris Bryant compares senior Tories to 'leering schoolboys' and says that no women will speak at any of the 128 Tory conference fringe meetings next week..
Revised Employment Tribunal Rules Unjust, Argue Claimants' Lawyers
Revised rules for lodging work-related complaints make claimants pay upfront in effort to save taxpayer money.
Zuma's South Africa: A Divided and Leaderless Land [BLOG]
Eight months away from the next elections, Chuck Parnell explores how South Africans are in desperate need of inspirational leadership.
Britons Just 18 Days from Breadline
Legal & General report shows short gap between savings running out and financial reliance on benefits, family and friends.
Iain Duncan Smith's Benefit Cap: 'Blunt Instrument' that Hurts Children
Work and pensions secretary rolls out benefit cap of £500 a week across UK.
Aviva Family Finances Report: Lone Parents Hardest Hit by UK Income Squeeze
Divorced, widowed, separated and single parents suffer the most from welfare cuts and rising cost of living
US Supreme Court Strikes Down Defence of Marriage Act as Unconstitutional [VIDEO]
Judges say law restricting marriage to heterosexual couples is unconstitutional.
Spending Review 2013: George Osborne to Announce £11.5bn More Cuts to Whitehall Budgets
Chancellor George Osborne will keep education, health and international aid spending ringfenced.
'John Lewis Economy': Co-operatives Can Make Britain Better Off
Giving staff a stake drives up productivity, wages and morale and is good capitalism. Shane Croucher wants to see more.
Wages Dragged down by Welfare Cuts and Non-Unionised Workers
Slashed benefits keeping single parents and older workers in labour market and increasing competition, says IFS.
Battle for Women in the Boardroom Masks Fight for Equal Pay
Breaking the glass ceiling means more than increasing boardroom pioneers such as Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer
UK Poor Pinched Hardest as George Osborne's Welfare Cuts Bite
Institute for Fiscal Studies study shows better-off hit most after recession, but welfare cuts mean it's the poorest's turn.
Shadow Equalities Minister Kate Green Attacks UK Work Programme
Welfare-to-work schemes will never work until the labour market has decent jobs, warned Green.
UK Super-Rich Get Richer as Pay Gap Widens
Pay is rising for the top 1 percent of earners, but falling for the poorest 50 percent, thinktank reveals
Spotlight on China: Middle Income Trap New Leadership's Biggest Challenge
China's ageing population, huge credit bubbles and rising inequality is creating a serious "middle income trap" that could hurt the next phase of its "economic miracle".
Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race Demonstrator Trenton Oldfield Jailed
Six months for public nuisance for waterborne demonstrator who disrupted race in protest at government elitism.
'Binders Full of Women': Has Romney Blown it with Female Vote? [SLIDESHOW]
Republican candidate's bizarre comment at US presidential debate sparks widespread Twitter ridicule.
For Congolese Refugees, South Africa is not the Promised Land [BLOG]
Cathal Gilbert finds out that South Africa is far from the promised land for refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Britons in 'Perfect Storm' of Inequality, Says Oxfam
Poverty in households with jobs is increasing in the UK and if the trend continues, the country will witness the return of inequality not seen since Victorian times, says Oxfam.