North of England lags far behind south-east in national exam grades and university application rates Pupils achieved their best A-level results in a generation on Thursday with marks that highlighted the growing gap between the strongest and weakest-performing parts of the country. While the national exam grades were among the […]
US, Qatar, Egypt and Israel meet in Doha in effort to prevent fighting spiralling into region-wide Middle East conflict A new round of negotiations aimed at brokering a ceasefire in the war in Gaza and preventing the fighting from escalating into a region-wide conflict got under way in Doha, as […]
Personal assistant and two doctors among those indicted after Friends star died last year of ‘acute effects of ketamine’ Five people have been arrested and charged over the death of Matthew Perry, prosecutors said, including the actor’s personal assistant and two doctors. The doctors supplied the Friends actor, who died […]
‘Devastating’ report says there are ‘serious concerns’ about London force’s management of dangerous offenders The UK’s biggest police force is providing an inadequate or failing service in seven of eight key crime-fighting areas, and there are “serious concerns” about its management of dangerous offenders, according to an official inspection. The […]
Kyiv says it has also launched a major drone attack on four Russian airbases and shot down an enemy jet Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has said his country’s forces are continuing to advance into Russian territory after their surprise offensive, as Kyiv said it had launched a “major” drone attack […]
Monument’s largest ‘bluestone’ moved more than 450 miles – a discovery researchers say rewrites relationships between Neolithic populations For more than a century, archaeologists have known that some of the stones at Stonehenge came from Wales and were transported – somehow – about 125 miles ( 200km) to the site […]
Islamist group says it won’t ‘negotiate just to negotiate’, raising fears of Iranian attacks on Israel if no deal is agreed Hamas appears unlikely to participate in a new round of talks on a Gaza ceasefire deal on Thursday, further eroding hopes of an agreement that might stave off expected […]
Democratic nominee to draw with contrast with Trump on tax and tariffs when she lays out details on Friday, aides say Kamala Harris’s economic agenda will focus on lowering the cost of groceries, housing and healthcare, bolstering the child tax credit and drawing a contrast with Donald Trump on tariffs […]
Kishida’s three-year term has been marked by scandal, rising living costs and record defence spending Japan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has said he will not run for the presidency of his ruling Liberal Democratic party [LDP] next month – a decision that will see the appointment of a new leader […]
Price rises were bigger for budget foods than expensive varieties during peak years of inflation, research shows Britain’s poorest households saw the bill for their weekly shop rise by far more than that of the rich during the height of the cost of living crisis as the sharpest price increases […]