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Higher education institutions have announced redundancies and course closures over the past year as a result of growing financial pressures.
Victoria Atkins asked whether Steve Reed will ‘on a point of principle’ resign if Labour does not change its approach to inheritance tax.
Black smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday morning, signalling a new pope has yet to be chosen. Cardinals resumed their voting in the secret conclave, having already failed to choose a ...
Donald Trump said the announcement would be ‘very big’ while Sir Keir Starmer insisted he would act in the national interest.
A new documentary about TV chef Heston Blumenthal’s life following his bipolar diagnosis has been commissioned by the BBC.
An art dealer has been charged with offences relating to terrorist financing. Oghenochuko Ojiri, 53, faces eight counts of failing to make a disclosure during the course of business within the ...
India’s Defence Ministry said it targeted air defence systems in several locations in Pakistan, but did not say whether it used drones.
The online encyclopaedia says the new safety rules could threaten its approach to presenting neutral and reliable information.
New Zealand is still one of a few countries in the world where sheep outnumber people, but the human population is catching up, according to official figures. The vast number of sheep in New Zealand ...
Billionaire entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah were among seven people who died when the yacht sank on August 19.
John Swinney is the “best politician in Scotland”, SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has insisted, as he dismissed speculation over his own leadership ambitions. The MP is to stand for Holyrood in ...
Queen’s University, Ulster University and The Open University have warned that the current funding arrangements are ‘no longer sustainable’.