‘The Conservatives are considering limiting child benefit to three children, BBC Newsnight has learned. The Treasury is “softening” to the idea and is examining the details, Newsnight political editor Allegra Stratton said. It would save […]

‘A woodland trust has today been forced to deny it is ‘anti-fairy’ after it launched a crackdown on the number of doors being nailed to trees as homes for the tiny ethereal beings. Fairy control […]

‘Mobile phones didn’t just arrive in Pakistan. But someone could be fooled into thinking otherwise, considering the tens of millions of Pakistanis pouring into mobile phone stores these days. In one of world’s largest efforts […]

‘Police have arrested more than 500 parents in and around the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar for not allowing their children to get the polio vaccine, an official said Tuesday. Peshawar Deputy Commissioner Riaz Khan […]

‘The rate of executions in Saudi Arabia has reached “unprecedented” levels, a charity has warned, as the kingdom killed four criminals in two days on Tuesday and Wednesday. Amnesty International said the latest state-sanctioned deaths […]

‘Oxford Dictionary defines a trial balloon as “a tentative measure taken or statement made to see how a new policy will be received.” That’s a bland description. The measures taken aren’t always tentative. In fact, […]

‘Last November Tanzania’s President Kikwete tweeted his promise that the evictions of indigenous Maasai people and their villages near Serengeti National Park would stop. But now another round of evictions is under way: thousands of […]

‘Stage 2 of the Hillary email scandal has been achieved, as yesterday’s “confused old lady who didn’t understand how email works” defense utterly collapsed with the Associated Press’ discovery that Clinton’s mail server was located […]

‘Oklahoma has suspected for years that fracking caused earthquakes, but they stayed quiet about the connection under pressure from the oil industry. The Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS) finally admitted a possible link more than a […]

‘They are among the British moneyed elite: the head of the nation’s largest bank, a billionaire hedge fund manager and the owner of some of London’s most luxurious nightclubs. Yet for tax purposes, they are […]

‘Father Tony McSweeney chalked up a number of notable additions to his CV during a lifetime supposedly devoted to the service of children and God. He said Mass at Norwich City Football Club at the […]

‘The US government is still unable to explain around five per cent of UFO sightings in its archives. Now one team of ‘alien hunters’ has dug up some of the best images to see if […]

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