Education union chiefs have today demanded an overhaul of next year's GCSE and A-Level exams over fears coronavirus could cut school contact time and called for an emphasis shift away from end-of-year exams - because students find them 'too stressful'. Bosses at the National Education Union (NEU), the UK's largest …...Read More

But the candidate’s husband, a partner at the law firm DLA Piper who specializes in media, sports and entertainment litigation, is certainly supportive. (He has taken a leave of absence from his job, apparently mindful about avoiding any possible conflicts of interest; the firm declined to comment.) Throwing himself with …...Read More

A young Chinese woman dubbed the 'folding girl' can finally walk upright after undergoing four operations in three months to fix her hunched back. The 23-year-old, known by a pseudonym Xiao Yu, had to walk with her chest pressed against her thighs for more than 10 years due to a …...Read More

Ten thousand healthcare workers have signed up to take part in a Government study which aims to solve the mystery of whether people can get reinfected with Covid-19. Public Health England researchers will follow volunteers for at least a year, regularly swabbing them for the virus and taking blood samples …...Read More

Top universities have called on the Government for additional funds to take on more students and for the cap on the number of pupils studying medicine to be lifted amid fears ministers face a £3billion bailout. Thousands of students are scrambling to get places at their first choice university after …...Read More

In a virtual convention this week that is heavy on personality and light on policy, Democrats have presented a unified front on issues of racial justice, declaring that the status quo is not acceptable. Not far beneath the surface, however, lies broad disagreement over policing, with the reform-oriented proposals of …...Read More

Songbirds sing most vociferously at dawn and in the budding light of a new day, but the reason for this has never been fully understood. A new study may have finally provided an answer to the conundrum and suggests the animals use the early morning to warm up their voices …...Read More

Today his mother Toni Steele said her son had handed himself in to the police Billy Steele, 31, was filmed launching tirade at three black passengers on Tube The white man knocked unconscious after a shocking racist rant on the tube in which he referred to a group of black …...Read More

“Welcome.” “Welcome.” “Welcome —” “— to the second night —” “— of the Democratic National Convention.” “This is a different kind of convention.” “This year —” “— all of us are on the stage.” “And we’ve got a lot to say.” “The presidential election is the world’s most important job …...Read More

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