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The growth of the

US economy

Gross domestic product (GDP) – a broad measure of economic health …

Staff at some of the UK’s biggest music festivals are working in “brutal” conditions, according to research.

Crew members, including sound engineers and behind-the-scenes production staff, were asked to work 18-hour days, some suffered heatstroke, others slept on floors and had to use toilet facilities that were overflowing. In some …

Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the British-Egyptian political dissident held in a Cairo jail for more than five years, has reached such a state of despair over the UK’s inability to secure his release that he has contemplated renouncing both his British and Egyptian citizenships, letters written by him reveal.

His family …

A 100 metre-wide asteroid has triggered global planetary defence procedures for the first time after telescope observations revealed it has a chance of colliding with Earth in 2032.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted by an automated telescope in Chile on 27 December last year but has since risen to the …

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The Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were among at least 13 senior skaters and coaches on board the American Airlines plane

that crashed into the Potomac river in Washington DC

A senior Anglican bishop has announced he is quitting his post amid sexual misconduct claims, plunging the Church of England into fresh turmoil.

John Perumbalath, the bishop of Liverpool, bowed to pressure after his senior leadership team

called on him to step aside

The online gambling company Bet365 has been flooded with complaints after it suffered an outage during one of the busiest nights of European football this season.

Customers claimed to have lost out on thousands of pounds owing to what the company called “issues with our service” during the second half …

Five hours before the Women’s Ashes Test started at the MCG, a different match was happening a couple of kilometres down the road in St Kilda. The Afghanistan women’s team, made up of nationally contracted players who had to escape their home country in fear of their lives when the …

And so it finally arrived: the first day of women’s Test cricket at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground since 1949. Long-planned by Cricket Australia, there was a crackle of history in the air, as Alyssa Healy (ruled fit to play at the 11th hour) wore the legendary Betty Wilson’s green …