since 2014, government initiatives have aided nore than 9 million people as part of programmes to overcome illiteracy. Women make up 85 per cent of that number

Tim Walz joined Kamala Harris on stage in Philadelphia to deliver his first speech since being tapped as her running mate. Read the speech in full

Kamala Harris selected Minnesota governor Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday 6 August, choosing a plain speaker from America’s heartland to help her take the fight to Republican rival Donald Trump. A Democratic governor since 2018 and a US ...

Annual growth rose to 2.3%, the highest rate since the start of this year

From high school halls to Capitol Hill and the Minnesota governor’s mansion, Nebraska native Tim Walz has been weaving a political path tinged with schoolteacher sensibilities since 2006 – and the next stop could be the White House. His family li ...

Critics and the far right have claimed previous protests - including those in 2011 after the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan and the Black Lives Matters demonstrations in 2020 - were policed ‘more favourably’ than racist demonstrations that have sp ...

Asian markets are starting to rebound

Percentage of badgers with bTB fell to zero in Cornish study, raising hopes of end to cull of 210,000 badgers since 2013

So far, there have been 378 arrests since the violence broke out last week

The total cost of the scheme has risen by over £4m since the previous contractor went bust

A rock thrown by demonstrators at an anti-immigration protest barely missed hitting a journalist following riot police in Rotherham. Footage shared by a video producer from the Press Association shows officers moving towards a large fire, before a ro ...

Dame Maureen Lipman has been a regular in Coronation Street since 2018 but it has been confirmed she's taking a break from playing fan favourite Evelyn Plummer

This video shows the devastating aftermath of riots in Tamworth. Footage shows the damage caused to the Holiday Inn Express which was targeted during a day of unrest in the town on Sunday (4 August). A large group of individuals were seen throwing pr ...

Londoner Ronni Carter, 19, has been a Disney superfan since she was a baby

UK riots have caused serious disruption, with police unable to contain it

ITV have been accused of “bias” by viewers after Good Morning Britain presenter Ed Balls interviewed his government minister wife Yvette Cooper on Monday 5 August. Mr Balls said he had “genuine questions” for the home secretary, as he intervi ...

A business owner along Drummond Street said he's lost half of his business since the HS2 works began near Euston

A distraught taxi driver broke down in tears as he described the hate he had received during riots in Sunderland. Violence has hit towns and cities around the UK since misinformation was used to enflame tensions following the murder of three girls an ...

Home secretary Yvette Cooper has said there will be a “reckoning” following unrest across England, as she pledged that anyone involved in the riots will “pay the price”. Violence has hit towns and cities around the UK since misinf ...

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as US recession fears and unwinding yen ‘carry trade’ hits markets