Bradford is famous for weaving woollen cloth. Artist Luke Jerram makes a huge ball of yarn using fabric from the city full of ...

Amid the fireworks of a new year celebration, a young Italian ship’s cook, Giulia Baccosi, accepts a last-minute job offer ...

Researchers in Cuba and the UK are working together to reveal the biological secrets of the beautiful but endangered Polymita ...

There are no recent statistics on the number of children forced to work in Kenya's sex industry. In 2012, the US State ...

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It will be the biggest embassy in Europe, if approved. But its opponents fear it brings with it certain risks and dangers ...

Officials have been criticised over the lack of warning ahead of the flash floods that killed at least 135 people.

A plan to more than double childcare fees for some students at Queen's University Belfast (QUB) has been reversed. The ...

Naomi Osaka loses just one game as she defeats Anastasija Sevastova to reach the Canadian Open quarter-finals in Montreal.

American Cameron Young won the Wyndham Championship by six shots to claim the first PGA title of his career. The 28-year-old, ...

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A yellow weather warning issued for Scotland on Monday has been upgraded to amber for much of the country. The upgraded ...