• At the Sunday news conference, a civil affairs ministry official said rescue workers have pulled alive 6, 537 people from the rubble of the May 12 earthquake.

    CNN: 6 killed, 1,000 hurt in China aftershock

  • Assembly government officials are part of the UK civil service and its top official, Permanent Secretary Dame Gillian Morgan, is accountable to the UK Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell.

    BBC: Public Accounts Committee

  • In 2008, following a long debate among judges, he modelled a simplified judicial robe which is now in official use in the civil courts.

    BBC: Profiles: UK Supreme Justices

  • With just a few days to go until Sir Michael Scholar leaves his job at the helm of the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA), the watchdog has for the first time turned its fire, not on politicians or civil servants it thinks have misused official stats, but on members of the press.

    BBC: Watchdog v newshound

  • She also accompanied Mr Barker on official visits in place of civil servants, the newspaper says, and was cautioned by officials "against overstepping the boundaries of propriety or conflicts of interest".

    BBC: David Cameron and Greg Barker

  • Kingfisher's submission to the civil aviation department lacks detail, the senior official said.

    WSJ: Kingfisher Still Short of Take-Off Clearance

  • Monday is the official King holiday, marking the slain civil rights leader's birthday.

    CNN: Bush calls education 'civil rights issue of our time'

  • Alireza Miryusefi, spokesman for Iran's mission to the United Nations, said that while the Baha'i Faith was not recognized as an official religion in Iran, its adherents had full civil rights.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Ms Woodford is now an anti-death penalty advocate and is named as the official proposer of the measure, which is backed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

    BBC: California to vote on abolishing death penalty

  • But the official age of 60 for men and 50 for women (55 for civil servants) has not changed since 1951, when average life expectancy was 46 compared with today's 73.

    ECONOMIST: The consequences of an ageing population

  • Still, contractors look far nimbler at solving myriad problems than civil servants, who are still hampered, for example, by rules ordering that all official communication be done on paper (e-mails will not do).

    ECONOMIST: India��s UID scheme

  • Being a primordially official report of the Brazilian State, the government opened ample participative process to the civil society throughout the elaboration of the final text.

    UNESCO: OFFICE IN BRASILIA

  • Some reformist groups also object, arguing that the changes do not strengthen civil institutions enough, and raise the scope for corruption by lessening the time required between a public official's leaving office and his standing in some election.

    ECONOMIST: Guatemala

  • Three DfT civil servants, who were suspended after the scrapping of the bid, have returned to work, and one official has launched legal action against the department on the basis that her role in the process has been "inaccurately" portrayed.

    BBC: West Coast Main Line fiasco caused by 'major failures'

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