Top exam grades will not transform children into happy and healthy adults, the education secretary will say, calling on schools in England to replace a [more…]
Wall Street and bitcoin rallied to fresh record highs and the dollar soared after Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, while renewable energy [more…]
A convicted murderer and rapist who was the prime suspect in the disappearance of the missing estate agent Suzy Lamplugh has died in prison aged [more…]
Hundreds of thousands of Guyana citizens living at home and abroad will receive a payout of around £370 each after the country announced it was [more…]
Cuba is bracing for Hurricane Rafael, which is expected to make landfall on Wednesday and compound the misery wrought by a recent blackout and Hurricane [more…]
Somalia has announced that more than $1.1bn (£860m) of outstanding loans will be cancelled by the US, a sum representing about a quarter of the [more…]
Key members of the global far right have celebrated Donald Trump’s US election win, with tributes to the former president rolling in from Rio de [more…]
Lightning has killed a 34-year-old player and injured five others during a football match in Peru. Sunday’s game between Juventud Bellavista and Familia Chocca in [more…]
Evangelos Marinakis is no stranger to acquiring footballers but the Nottingham Forest owner was an interested observer at a different kind of auction last month. [more…]
Some universities in England could lose out on millions of pounds from increased tuition fees because their contracts with existing students may prevent changes to [more…]