CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves faced fresh criticism today after claiming that safeguards imposed on the financial sector in the ...

HUNDREDS of healthcare support workers at hospitals in south-east Wales have voted to strike over pay. Unison said staff at ...

AN animal welfare charity that helped get fox hunting banned is calling for tighter regulations on the law’s 20th anniversary ...

LABOUR was urged to provide long-term public funding for higher education yesterday after the sector’s regulator warned that ...

SOUTH Africa’s government is refusing to help a group of illegal miners occupying a closed mine who have been denied access ...

BRAZIL has opened a social summit in the run-up to next week’s Group of 20 (G20) meeting of top economies, the first such ...

Idealised notions of free markets conceal the reality of a system designed to generate profits at the expense of workers and ...

CATHOLIC bishops have warned that compassion is “under threat” from assisted dying, which they fear could lead to people feeling “pressured” into ending their lives, ahead of a debate and vote on the ...

The US blockade of Cuba has done irreparable harm to a people hoping to develop and follow an independent political course.

LEBANESE interim Prime Minister Najib Mikati asked Iran today to help secure a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah, appearing to urge Tehran to convince the militant group to accept a ...

Hydrafeed, based in Milton Keynes, manufactures high-tech machine tools used by Instro Precision in Kent, which is part of Israeli-owned Elbit Systems. Elbit Systems has five factories in Britain and ...

ECONOMIC growth slowed in the first three months of the new Labour government, according to figures published today. Statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the economy grew ...