Work may refer to:

• Manual labour, effort expended by people on productive activities in the home, school, or employment, or, by extension, one's place of employment or employer
• A place of employment
• Work (Mechanics), a force applied through a distance, defined in physics as the integral of dot product of force times infinitesimal translation
• Work (thermodynamics), a measure of the amount of mechanical work that can be extracted from a system as determined, typically, via free energy calculations
• Work (project management), the effort applied to produce a deliverable or accomplish a task
• Work (fine arts), a creation, such as a song or a painting
• Work (professional wrestling), a staged event – that is, one that enforces kayfabe; the term originates from "working a crowd"

• Work (Charlie Chaplin film), a 1915 Charlie Chaplin silent film co-starring Edna Purviance
• Work (painting), a painting by Ford Madox Brown
• Work Records (aka WORK or The WORK Group), a music label under Sony Records

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BBC News | UK | World Edition

Boy murder witness comes forward
Mon, 12 May 2008 01:32:39 -0000
A witness to the murder of a boy in a south-east London bakery comes forward after a police appeal.
MPs debate embryology changes
Sun, 11 May 2008 23:00:05 -0000
MPs are to debate controversial proposals to change the law on the use of human embryos.
Man Utd win Premier League
Sun, 11 May 2008 16:02:22 -0000
Manchester United win 2-0 at Wigan to pip Chelsea to the Premier League crown, securing the club's 17th title.
Ministers attack Burma response
Sun, 11 May 2008 14:49:03 -0000
UK ministers condemn Burma's military rulers for not allowing aid to flow more freely into the cyclone-hit country.
Mentally ill 'go without food'
Sun, 11 May 2008 23:06:21 -0000
People with mental health problems are struggling to make ends meet, the charity Mind finds.
Call for focus on ethnic tensions
Sun, 11 May 2008 23:13:20 -0000
Councils must work harder to target "hot spots" caused by rising migration and diversity, the government will say.

The Economist: Britain

It wasn't like this in my day
Thu, 08 May 2008 12:40:10 -0000
The government stiffens the law on dope?against official advicePERHAPS they are too stoned to notice, but cannabis users do not seem to pay much attention to changes in the law regarding their beloved weed. When the government last tinkered with the law in 2003, downgrading dope's seriousness, many feared an increase in consumption. Instead, the prevalence of occasional smoking among young people has since fallen, from 25% to 21%.Following that apparent success, the government has now decided to reverse the decision. On May 7th Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, announced that cannabis would be upgraded from a class C drug?the mildest type?to class B, putting it in the same company as amphetamines. Earlier that day the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), an official body of academics, social workers, policemen and other drugs experts, had recommended she leave it alone. Ms Smith said the public supported her in taking a tough line and claimed that strong new strains of cannabis presented a risk to mental health. ...
The other tax rebellion
Thu, 08 May 2008 12:40:10 -0000
Taxing multinationals is no easy task, especially if they can leaveWHEN Gordon Brown's biographers eventually look back on his plodding path to and from the prime minister's office, they would do well to spend time studying the arcane minutiae of his tax policies. His grip on the party's leadership may have been weakened by the rebellion of Labour's backbenchers over an income-tax change that has hit low-paid workers. However, an equally vexing problem facing him and souring his party's electoral prospects lies in a dusty corner of the corporate-tax code.So far it has caused no more than a trickle of companies to pack their bags for lower-taxed climes, but many more are threatening to do so. Businesspeople are up in arms, warning the government of an ?exodus? of firms and speaking darkly of a loss of faith in the government. ...
Another setback for Gordon
Thu, 08 May 2008 12:40:10 -0000
The issue of Scottish independence may hurt the prime ministerGORDON BROWN'S current problems with the electorate were foreshadowed in Scotland shortly before he became prime minister last June. A month earlier Labour had lost power in the devolved parliament to the Scottish National Party (SNP). Now Mr Brown seems to have lost control of the Scottish Labour Party. Overruling the prime minister's caution, Wendy Alexander, who leads Labour in the parliament, said on May 6th she wants a referendum on Scottish independence.Ms Alexander's announcement was a volte-face. Previously, she had ruled out such a poll on the grounds that she was opposed to independence and that it commanded the support of only a minority of voters. Now, she says, she wants to ?bring it on?. But her move was also a slap in the face for the prime minister, whose response seemed to reinforce his reputation for dithering. On May 7th he indicated that he wanted to wait at least a year before deciding whether to back a referendum. ...
The final triumph
Thu, 08 May 2008 12:40:10 -0000
How electoral disaster disguises New Labour's ultimate victoryPOLITICAL obituaries are often written prematurely. Unlike ordinary ones, they tend to exaggerate failures and gloss over success: sacked ministers are ?disgraced?, defeated leaders irredeemable losers. Responses to Gordon Brown's humiliation in the local and London elections on May 1st have evinced both the hastiness and the hyperbole. Some commentators have excitably heralded the results as certain evidence not only of the prime minister's inevitable defenestration, at a general election or sooner, but also as a conclusive popular rejection of New Labour and all its works.On the second point, at least, the excitable commentators are already wrong. The big electoral tent that New Labour built may have collapsed, but many of its intellectual pillars are still standing. Indeed, the revival of the Conservatives under David Cameron arguably represents the project's final triumph. ...
Dead on arrival
Thu, 08 May 2008 12:40:10 -0000
An autopsy on a scheme for training doctors bodes ill for future health plansTHE relationship between doctors and bureaucrats is more often than not a fractious one. A highly educated and fiercely independent profession tends to resent attempts by mere civilians to screw down costs, manage performance or dictate treatment. But the fiasco that ensued in 2007 when the health department tried to change the way junior doctors applied for further training and progressed in their careers was in a class of its own. On May 8th, a committee of MPs published an inquest into the mess. Not just a routine post-mortem, the report is a cautionary tale for Labour's other grandiose plans to reorganise the National Health Service.The Medical Training Application Service (MTAS), a website through which newly qualified doctors had to apply to train to be specialists, was launched in January 2007, and abandoned just three months later. In between, its short life was nothing more than a slow-motion collapse, marked by technical hitches, security breaches, legal challenges, demonstrations by junior doctors, emergency ministerial statements and high-profile resignations. It caused ?the biggest crisis within the medical profession in a generation?, according to a health-department report; it was a ?deeply damaging episode for British medicine?, concluded a subsequent independent review. ...
Scout's honour
Thu, 08 May 2008 12:40:10 -0000
BAE, its reputation tarnished, promises to behave betterSTABLE doors are seldom slammed shut by so eminent a group as that chaired by Lord Woolf, a former chief justice, to scrutinise the ethics of Britain's biggest defence firm, BAE Systems. His committee included Doug Daft, a former chief executive of Coca-Cola, and Sir David Walker, a City grandee. It was established by the company a year ago in a bid to clean up a reputation tarnished by allegations that its longstanding arms deal with Saudi Arabia, worth GBP43 billion ($85 billion), involved the payment of bribes.After interviewing scores of people and pondering the matter for a year the wise men (and woman), who were asked to examine only the firm's current procedures and not its past conduct, have produced an array of recommendations for better behaviour. These include getting the board of directors to pay more attention to which countries are buying the company's weapons and for BAE to avoid hiring ?agents? or ?advisers? unless absolutely necessary. The firm should also steer especially clear of advisers who are ?recommended by a government official? or who whisper about fat commissions, cash payments or numbered bank accounts. ...

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