SCOTLAND is to introduce some of the toughest anti-smoking laws in the world, after ministers backed raising the legal age of buying cigarettes from 16 to 18.
The UK’s Identity Cards Act 2005 establishes that there must be a register of individuals in the UK and this is to be known as the National Identity Register, to be established and maintained and confined to the statutory purposes.
Next week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will once again address the issue of Iran's nuclear program and, in light of the growing impasse at the United Nations Security Council over a draft sanctions resolution on Iran, a new window of opportunity to relieve the council of this unwanted pressure and to tackle it at the atomic-watchdog agency has now emerged.