The disability living allowance (DLA) is being replaced with Personal Independence Payments (PIP), which require up-front medical tests and regular health re-assessments for claimants.

BBC: Welfare Reform Bill

There have been growing calls for independence from nationalists in Catalonia in Spain and Scotland in the United Kingdom, as the eurozone crisis tests loyalties across the European Union.

BBC: Belgian Flemish separatists make gains at polls

John L. Hennessy, who took office as the university's president effective Sept. 1, is facing one of the toughest tests in the school's 109-year history: to maintain the university's influence and independence amid a business community moving so fast it threatens to relegate Stanford to little more than an electrical engineering farm team.

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