Possible move in autumn statement come as experts sound alarm about dire state of UK public services

 

A Nigerian chess champion has played the game non-stop for 58 hours to break the world record. Tunde Onakoya, 29, hopes to raise $1 million for children’s education across Africa with his marathon attempt that began in New York City’s Times Squar ...

 

Gaza hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike on a residential building has killed at least nine people

Bodycam footage shows the moment a man was rescued after falling into the Hudson River on Manhattan’s West Side. The New York Police Department (NYPD) and Fire Department New York (FDNY) responded to a call for help shortly after 7am. Arriving on t ...

The debonair duo have remixed U2 and Britney, and angered Kanye West. Still on each other’s wavelengths after almost a decade away, they’re resuming their quest to make ‘the most dramatic music possible’

It’s three decades since the government’s attempt to ban raves radicalised an oddball coalition of dance fans, squatters and ‘new age’ travellers. What became of the protesters who tried to kill the bill?

The prospect of home loan rates staying high for longer is not the tonic for lenders’ financial results it once was

Ex-president reduced to silence in court, including this week, when he was forced to face opinions of New Yorkers during jury selection

Chain changes ‘That’s why mums go to Iceland’ line to reflect fact other people also do grocery shopping

Recordings of healthy fish are being transmitted to attract heat-tolerant larvae back to degraded reefs in the Maldives

The pseudoscientific term, made notorious by George Floyd’s murder in the US, will no longer be used by the police watchdog

Pro-Palestinian students interrupted a dinner held by a top free speech defender at Berkeley. A polarized and very public controversy has followed

Caribbean historians want Richard Drax to pay reparations – but now Barbados plans to buy his land for homes

Growing social media interest in method of tracking spending and saving prompts banks to get in on the act

Footage released on social media on Saturday 20 April appears to show huge explosions at a military base belonging to Iraq’s Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in Babylon, south of Baghdad. The cause of the blast hasn't been confirmed ...

Watch as the night sky glows red during the eruption of Mount Ruang in Indonesia. The volcano, which is located in North Sulawesi province, erupted again on Wednesday evening (17 April) at around 8:15 pm local time. Several lightning strikes were als ...

Authorities in Indonesia closed an airport and told thousands of people to leave their homes near an erupting volcano on Thursday 18 April. The evacuation was due to the dangers of spreading ash, falling rocks, hot volcanic clouds and the possibility ...

Green members demand meeting after Scottish government abandons pledge to cut emissions 75% by 2030