A paper published in Science found that between 2011 and 2022 the night sky grew almost 10% brighter each year. With so many ...

Over the past few years, AI detection technology has improved dramatically. These tools use similar machine-learning ...

This policy is popular: 72% of the public support more social housing, which in England means homes owned by councils or ...

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Authorities determined that lowering the MACR had actually led to an increase in crime: criminalising younger children ...

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O N JULY 11th Poland commemorates the Volhynia massacres, in which some 100,000 Polish civilians were killed by Ukrainian ...

Andy Burnham, the prime-minister-in-waiting, is nostalgic about these post-war council homes, which he thinks used to be “the ...

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D onald Trump likes putting his name on things, from Manhattan skyscrapers (with permission) to Washington’s Kennedy Centre ...

Stop lowering the age of criminal responsibility ...

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