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It’s not written in the most strident language, but a report the government has been sitting on contains confirmation that one of the DWP’s pet projects is failing in one of its central tasks.
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) affects hundreds of millions of women globally. The UK has 65’000 known cases, not one conviction. Alimatu Dimonekene’s story is being repeated across the UK right now.
He died in handcuffs while detained at Harmondsworth detention centre – an 84-year-old Canadian with Alzheimer’s. Until now we only knew a name: Alois Dvorzac. But who was the man behind the tragedy?
Paris has made public transport free this weekend, in an attempt to tackle high levels of air pollution that have prompted warnings to be issued.
It’s not written in the most strident language, but a report the government has been sitting on contains confirmation that one of the DWP’s pet projects is failing in one of its central tasks.
There are problems with the delivery of the Personal Independence Payment, the new benefit to replace the Disability Living Allowance.
Ten miners working illegally are rescued from a gold mine in South Africa, but as many as 200 are still feared to be under ground.
Are the Conservatives stuffing public bodies with political appointees? And if so, are they just following Labour’s lead? FactCheck investigates.
Figures released by Labour this week seem to suggest the very oldest are being rushed to hospital by ambulance in massively increased numbers – but the figures are flawed.
Almost a million people have been found fit to work by the Department of Work and Pensions over the last five years.
The Syrian National Coalition confirms it will attend peace talks in Geneva on Wednesday, after the UN withdraws its controversial last-minute invitation for Iran to attend.
Successful comedians have personality traits which fit with what psychiatrists would describe as “psychotic”, a new study says – but experts warn against the stereotype of the “mad creative genius”.
UN soldiers are thought to have inadvertently started a cholera epidemic in the poverty-stricken island. Channel 4 News reports from the beleaguered country – four years after the earthquake.
One of the country’s leading children’s hospitals has been issued with a safety warning by one of its own trust executives after an internal review into its operating theatres.
The chancellor wants to crack down on high earners who continue to live in council houses. Is this a real problem? And what is the government going to do about it?
From the ‘fiscal cliff’ from which America never fell, to an Iraq inquiry that is still to report back. Here are seven things that were expected to happen in 2013 – but did not.