MOST local council by-elections turn out short of a third of the electorate with elected councillors barely scraping past ...

SUPPORTERS’ group Spirit of Shankly has written to Liverpool to stress the ownership and control of the club is “fundamental to us all” with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos part of a consortium understood ...

AT LEAST 2,000 people have died of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), whose current outbreak of the disease is the fastest growing on record, according to government data published today ...

IN AN interview with The Economist, Elon Musk said he believes that artificial intelligence (AI) will make work by humans “optional,” that robots in the workplace will help usher in an era of “amazing ...

WE NEEDN’T have had Fukushima, or Chernobyl, or Three Mile Island, or Church Rock. But all of these serious ...

PROBATION officers were expected to back industrial action as an indicative ballot on government plans to release more prisoners early closed today. Proposals under the Sentencing Act to ease ...

OVER one million people have been forced to evacuate their homes in eastern China as Typhoon Dolphin continues to wreak destruction across the country. The typhoon, the strongest storm to hit China ...

SUE TURNER recommends a rich and varied selection of the letters, diaries and memoirs of British volunteers DURING the Fringe, we flip from the 11-month scarcity of contemporary dance performance in ...

Meanwhile, more than 1,500 London bus drivers set for heatwave strikes this Friday, demanding air-conditioning and better working condition ...

FIREFIGHTERS were called to tackle a “devastating” wildfire which hit internationally protected heathland in the New Forest ...

PROVIDE a safe path to asylum rather than forcing people fleeing wars into more dangerous journeys, campaigners warned Prime Minister Andy Burnham today after an overcrowded boat arrived carrying ...

WORKING people are given instructions to ration while the water companies that have failed to fix their leaking ...