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Maternal and paternal exposure to common air pollutants may increase the risk of infertility because it can be detrimental to egg, sperm and embryo development,

new research

Previous papers have established that air pollution exposure probably contributes to infertility, but it has been …

It may not have the bright lights of London or Edinburgh, or even the celebrity or notoriety of some of the Great Britain’s better known villages and towns.

But in one respect, Woodbridge in Suffolk seems to trump them all: it is the happiest place to live in Britain. At …

Ben Stokes has revealed a personal stand-off with the International Cricket Council about over-rate penalties, including his refusal as England captain to sign the relevant post-match paperwork as a protest against the system.

Speaking before the second Test against New Zealand in Wellington, and naming an unchanged England XI as …

Growth in the UK’s dominant services sector slowed to its lowest rate in more than a year in November as firms digested business tax rises in the autumn budget.

The closely watched S&P Global UK services PMI survey scored 50.8 in November, slowing from 52.0 in October.

It was slightly …

The French parliament is expected

to vote today on a no-confidence motion

Here’s the parliamentary arithmetic that explains how we got here and how the vote could play out.

Why couldn’t Michel Barnier pass his budget?

The crisis came to …

With threats mounting inside and outside the EU’s borders and

Germany in paralysis

For Yoon Suk Yeol, it appears, the tables have turned.

In 2017 the then prosecutor general led the legal action to remove then-president

Park Geun-hye

Now, in the most bizarre, chaotic, few hours in recent South Korean …

The Heisman Trophy is college football’s supreme individual honor, an annual tribute to the best player in the game, and more often than not it’s the country’s top quarterback who takes the prize. But this could be the year Colorado’s Travis Hunter breaks with tradition.

Hunter is college football’s mind-warping …

The renationalising of train companies will not necessarily bring cheaper rail fares but should reduce cancellations and late trains, the UK transport secretary has suggested.

South Western Railway is to become the first train operator nationalised under the

Labour

This season is the best of times and the worst of times to institute a 12-team playoff in the top tier of college football.

It’s the best of times because the results so far have yielded a muddled picture in which picking just four teams would have been extraordinarily difficult, …