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Drill music has a reputation for inciting violence and crime. The Metropolitan Police believes the genre is linked to the rise of stabbings...

At first coronavirus was just a health story, but now it’s pretty clear employment and the economy are taking a massive hit. Travel bans hav...

Kiley Reid’s debut novel shot into the bestsellers list and has been lauded by critics here and in the US. Such A Fun Age follows the lives...

The world is in the midst of a pandemic. For most people, symptoms of the virus are mild, they might develop a cough and a fever before gett...

Most people who transition to another gender do not have second thoughts. In fact de-transitioning is thought to be relatively rare. There a...

Middlesbrough has the highest number of teenage pregnancies in England and Wales. Even though national figures show rates have dropped by ne...

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the 70-year-old billionaire ruler of Dubai and vice-president of the United Arab Emirates, has been f...

It was just before 10 o’clock in the morning on 27th October 2018 when a man armed with a semi-automatic rifle and three pistols opened fire...

There have been mounting allegations over the past few weeks that home secretary Priti Patel has bullied her staff. Last weekend the top civ...

Nearly 50 people have died in India following violence around a controversial citizenship law which critics say is anti-Muslim. Photographs,...

In the same week that Harvey Weinstein was convicted for sexual assaults in New York, Roman Polanski won the award for best director at the...

In Paris in 2015 world leaders agreed on a binding commitment on climate change. They committed to keeping the increase in global temperatur...

2020 has been quite a year, we're only two months in but have already faced an impending war between the US and Iran, deadly bushfires in Au...

For years there were allegations that Harvey Weinstein had assaulted women. This week he was found guilty of two counts of sexual assault, i...

Facial recognition technology is increasingly widespread. You might use it to unlock your phone or computer. It’s used in airports around th...

With cases of coronavirus spreading across the world, one word we’re hearing more and more is “pandemic”. If the disease is declared a pande...

Mark Zuckerberg says he wants new rules for social media. Every year politicians and security experts meet in Munich to discuss how to keep...

Billie Eilish is on top of the world right now. The 18-year-old recently swept the board at the Grammys, winning five awards including best...

Since Caroline Flack’s death by suicide last weekend, many people have been trying to make sense of it. Yesterday her family released a prev...

At the beginning of the year Dominic Cummings, the prime minister’s senior adviser, put out an unusual job advertisement. In a blog post he...

Donald Trump is trying to shore up his evangelical support before November's presidential election. Ramping up his Christian outreach, he's...

Julia Ebner monitors extremists during her day job as a counter-terrorism expert, where she advises governments and tech companies on how to...

Insomnia affects about a third of adults in the UK according to the NHS. It also says adults should be getting between 7 and 9 hours sleep a...

It’s been two years since the Windrush scandal, where at least 164 black British citizens were wrongly deported to countries of their birth...

Coronavirus has reached 24 counties outside of China, with 8 confirmed cases in the UK. As the disease is spreading so is a lot of informati...

Callie Lewis was just 24 years old when she took her own life. Callie had been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at a young age and had alw...

South Korean film Parasite has been named best picture at this year's Oscars, becoming the first non-English language film to take the top p...

It was the celebrity scandal that gripped the nation in an era where tabloids ruled the roost and affairs and addiction dominated front page...

The president sort of won the Iowa Democratic caucus. This week was supposed to be when the race to be the candidate to take on Donald Trump...

Yesterday an inquiry into the harm that breast surgeon Ian Paterson did to his patients finally delivered its results. The inquiry recommend...

Sudesh Amman had been released from prisons days before he stabbed two people in a Islamist-related terror incident in London on February 2....

On January 13 a bag containing the dismembered limbs of teenager Keane Mulready-Woods was found on a housing estate in Dublin. Keane is beli...

With more of us becoming more conscious of our health and the environment, vegans and vegetarians look set to make up a quarter of the Briti...

The country was shocked when 39 people were found suffocated in the back of a lorry on an industrial park in Essex last October. The discove...

This week Huawei was given permission to build parts of the new 5G network in the UK. But, because Huawei is a Chinese company, there’s a lo...

A brand-new virus which causes severe lung disease has been detected in China. More than 100 people are known to have died there, and expert...

In her new Netflix series The Goop Lab, Gwyneth Paltrow skates the fine line between wellness, pseudoscience and medicine. From orgasms and...

“We must reject the perennial prophets of doom”. These were Donald Trump’s words at Davos earlier in the week, dismissing those who warn of...

The trial of Harvey Weinstein started in New York this week. Once upon a time he was a Hollywood giant, then in 2017 allegations he sexually...

The psychedelic powers of a traditional Amazonian plant medicine called ayahuasca are attracting more and more tourists. It’s becoming big b...

It was a pretty grim general election for Labour last year. As a result Jeremy Corbyn announced he would be stepping down. There are now jus...

Blue Monday is supposedly the saddest day of the year. 15 years ago that idea was debunked, yet every year in the UK #bluemonday trends on T...

Sex Education, the delightfully uncensored drama about the life of a sex therapist’s awkward teenage son, has landed on Netflix for its seco...

After the US killed one of Iran’s senior generals in a drone strike some people were worried we were on the brink of World War 3. Iran threa...

This year's Oscar nominations have reignited the row about representation in Hollywood. 19 of the 20 acting nominees this year are white - t...

Over the past decade a tension has emerged between Big Tech’s utopian vision of an AI future and the reality that many jobs are being threat...

This month Reynhard Sinaga was found guilty of drugging, raping and sexually assaulting 48 men. The judge told the 36-year-old student from...

We know that the NHS is under immense pressure, especially this time of year when it’s at its busiest. But January is also the month of reso...

Yesterday Prince Harry and Meghan announced they will be stepping back from their roles as senior royals. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex mad...

A British teenager has been given a four-month suspended sentence after being found guilty of lying about gang-rape in Cyprus. The 19-year-o...