For years, powerful police organizations have resisted calls for major changes in the way they do their jobs, even after the widespread protests of 2015 over the killing of black people by the police. They have been successful in doing so partly through their lobbying and campaign activity, and partly …...Read More

Google, in partnership with the pollution mapping company Aclima, are set to release a trove of data that gives a researchers a granular look at local pollution levels. The data set is a culmination of four years of readings and was taken using sensors made by Aclima that were attached …...Read More

Justin Bieber is taking legal action against two Twitter users who claimed in social media posts that he sexually assaulted them. The singer, 26, has filed suit against accounts belonging to Danielle and Kadi who each alleged they'd been were victims, in 2014 and 2015, respectively. In legal documents, Bieber …...Read More

The world may never know why a Stone Age man's head was placed on a stake and tossed into an underwater grave, but now it will see his face. A forensic artist harnessed the power of 3D facial reconstruction to piece together the features on 8,000-year-old jawless skull to show …...Read More

A £1billion Huawei research facility given the green light yesterday could be a Trojan horse, a Tory MP has warned. The controversial Chinese telecoms giant was granted planning permission for a hub near Cambridge that promises to create 400 jobs. But the US State Department urged the UK to ‘carefully …...Read More

If you do those things really carefully, yeah, we’re not going to be reopening bars anytime soon. And we’re not going to be having big indoor gatherings with thousands of people. But there’s a lot else that we can do in our economy that isn’t like that. There’s a lot …...Read More

One mother's obesity may the liver cancer risks for years of descendants to follow, a new study suggests. Researchers found, in experiments conducted on mice, that a high-fat diet led to gene expression appears to pass on the susceptibility for liver cancer. What's more, this is also increased the odds …...Read More

Two mothers exchanged heated words during the final of Britain's Best Parent this evening over whether children should be smacked - with viewers labelling it a 'lazy' tool. Strict parents Nicky and David, from London, returned to the Channel 4 programme tonight along with three other couples - homeschoolers Becky …...Read More

Britain received Europe's highest number of asylum claims from unaccompanied children last year after figures surged by a fifth. The UK took 3,650 claims from youngsters travelling without a parent or guardian over the 12-month period, the EU's asylum unit said. It was a 19 per cent rise year-on-year. In …...Read More

“The governor’s plan was always predicated on a very high rate of voluntary compliance with things like wearing masks and socially distancing,” said Mayor Eric Johnson of Dallas, a Democrat, who has been pushing for a statewide mask policy. “I think what we’re seeing is that was a miscalculation.” Mr. …...Read More