At the same time, it urged authorities in Baghdad to revisit the decision to delay the vote in the two Sunni provinces and to schedule voting there soon.

NPR: Iraqis Go To Polls For First Time Since US Pullout

The councillors were due to come to a decision last year but asked for a delay - this week is crunch time for Cumbria's nuclear waste dump vote.

BBC: Cumbria's nuclear decision has 100,000 year legacy

Scottish Labour MSP Rhoda Grant said she was disappointed at the time it had taken to reach this decision and asked what had caused the delay.

BBC: Scottish Parliament

It also called for a review of a decision to allow night-time flights at Frankfurt's airport, which threatened to delay the building of a new runway.

ECONOMIST: Germany's Social Democrats

So, ministers may be able to delay the final decision on whether to approve the takeover - by allowing lots of time for officials at the culture department and Ofcom to go through public submissions - but, in the end, they are still likely to have to face it.

BBC: News of the World: Something had to give

Once upon a time, people assumed that Macs' lack of Blu-ray was a delay, not a permanent decision to fast-forward past it.

CNN: Apple's Schiller: 'Old technologies are holding us back'