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JK Rowling has said she was partly motivated to speak out about transgender issues because of her experience of domestic abuse and sexual assault. Th(...)

Jean Vanier, who founded the L’Arche communities for adults with intellectual disabilities, died at the age of 90 last May. The following month, L’A(...)

The first direct evidence of how bovine tuberculosis (TB) transmits infection between badgers and cattle has been revealed. The research by scientist(...)

The National Hunt season is chugging along, gradually building momentum, all eyes permanently fixed on the Cotswolds next March. The Irish flock to th(...)

Thousands of Irish race-goers made their way to Cheltenham last week for four days of gambling in the Gloucestershire countryside, contributing to the(...)

Just two years after the Fukushima nuclear accident, Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, was gamely trying to make a virtue out of a catastrophic liab(...)

Clement Attlee, the Labour prime minister whose government founded the welfare state, looked after a child refugee who escaped from the Nazis in the m(...)

A teacher accused of having sex with a student in the toilet of a plane as they returned from a school trip could face a retrial after a jury failed t(...)

Britain could run out of food if it cannot maintain the flow of goods after Brexit, that country’s National Farmers’ Union has said. After it emerged (...)

The actor Leslie Grantham, who played “Dirty Den” Watts in the BBC soap EastEnders, has died aged 71. A statement from his representative said: “We (...)