early-years education can determine a child’s future – which is why a Labour government must make it a priority, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

A spokesman says operations are expanding - amid warnings people are running out of places to seek safety.

White House budget director Shalanda Young warned in a letter on Monday to Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson and other congressional leaders that the United States was running out of time and money to help Ukraine fight its war ...

A Kansas man was stopped by airport security over an early Christmas present he was ordered not to open by his grandmother. In a viral TikTok clip, Brett Gaffney says he predicted the massive brown briefcase would be flagged for questioning and had p ...

<p>In the largest study of its kind, scientists used weather radar data to map bird stopover density in the United States and found that artificial light is a top indicator of where birds will land. City lights lure birds into what can ...

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as gold and bitcoin both jump as traders bet on US interest rate cuts early next year

Brazil's national development bank (BNDES) on Saturday launched an effort to restore degraded or destroyed woodland amounting to 60,000 square km (23,160 square miles) - an area nearly the size of Latvia - in the Amazon rainforest by 2030.

Casino workers for MGM Grand Detroit have voted to ratify a new contract, ending a 47-day strike. MGM Grand Detroit workers are union members of the Detroit Casino Council, which represents nearly 4,000 employees of the city’s three casinos.

Google, which aimed to have its conversational AI model Gemini launch in November, has quietly pushed back the much-anticipated debut to early 2024.

Baroness Kinnock died peacefully in her sleep in the early hours of Sunday morning at home in London, her family said

Former deputy PM reveals she was diagnosed with a rare brain abscess in 2018

 

Spain is "very close" to signing a deal on the post-Brexit status of the British territory of Gibraltar, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said after meeting his British counterpart David Cameron in Brussels.

 

The Independent has repeatedly highlighted the overcrowding crisis facing Britain’s prisons, with inmates crammed into cells for up to 23 hours a day and ministers considering freeing prisoners early to make space

Seismologists say tsunamis expected to hit Philippines and Japan in early hours of Sunday morning

Ye Olde Chesire Cheese on Fleet Street screams old

Introduction and aimsRichter syndrome (RS) represents the clonal evolution of chronic lymphocytic leukemia with histological transformation into a high-grade B cell lymphoma (diffuse large B cell lymphoma - DLBCL) or Hodgkin lymphoma. Considering tha ...

Proposals for overseas citizens to be freed from UK jails and deported up to 18 months early are criticised by House of Lords committee