The paper challenges the Scottish government to set out the cost of setting up and running a treasury, tax authority and central bank, a welfare structure, a foreign service, armed forces, an interior ministry to handle citizenship, immigration and border control, and regulators for issues including pensions, energy, telecommunications, health and safety, takeovers and advertising standards.

BBC: The Scottish Parliament

Mr Granda is described as the unofficial foreign minister for the Farc (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), the country's main leftist rebel group.

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Should Americans enlist in the armed forces, join the foreign service, pay more taxes, do volunteer work, study foreign languages, travel to Muslim countries?

NEWYORKER: Coming Apart

The Council will review the measures set forth in this resolution when appropriate, but no later than 30 November 2010, with a view to adjusting them in light of the security situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in particular progress in security sector reform and in integrating the armed forces and reforming the national police and disarming, demobilizing, repatriating, resettling and reintegrating Congolese and foreign armed groups.

UN: Security Council

Tuesday in the Commons begins with Foreign Office questions - before MPs move on to detailed consideration of the Armed Forces Bill.

BBC: Viewing guide: What's on in Parliament in coming week

About 70, 000 foreign-born men and women serve in the U.S. armed forces, or about 5 percent of the total active-duty force, according to the Pentagon.

CNN: Commentary: Risk, rewards in military duty for illegal aliens

British Foreign Secretary William Hague laid a wreath on behalf of all those in the armed forces across the commonwealth who have fallen.

BBC: Remembrance Sunday: UK's wartime fallen commemorated