And yet another has happened. Another innocent citizen of America has been shot by a police officer. Officers made a simple mistake, they mistook a phone for gu...
For the past few days the media has been abuzz with the news leaked by former Tory Party donor Lord Ashcroft in an unofficial biography "Call me Dave" that our...
Six months after the devastating conflict in Yemen began, Amensty International is urging the international community not to ignore the gross human rights abuses being committed by all sides in the country and is pushing for the creation of a UN Comm...
Most people know of the main discount stores across the country; Poundland, the 99p store, Poundworld; you name it, there is bound to be at least two in every c...
In July George Osborne announced his plans to scrap the current student finance maintenance grants available to students from 2016 and replace them with another...
In a move that may result in a Bond villain emerging in real life, an Egyptian billionaire has a novel solution to the refugees crisis currently happening in Europe. The Egyptian billionaire, Naguib Sawiris, who has been offering to buy a Mediterrane...
In a move already signalled earlier this week, Denmark has said it will not participate in the EU’s plans to resettle some 160,000 refugees within it's borders....
Who knew that enormously powerful people could be so catty? A senior executive at Netflix says the streaming service declined to sign up the former presenters o...
Is this the most one-sided fight in history? Does the fact that you can even download a blackboard app on the iPad make this a K.O blow before we’ve even discussed the issue at length? On the surface, yes. But if you’ll allow us to dig a little deepe...
I know, you're probably sick of hearing about the Syrian Refugee situation. A situation introduced to the rest of the world via an image of a lifeless 3 year ol...
Two United Nations agencies are boosting their efforts to fight malnutrition amongst children in South Sudan in a desperate battle to avoid catastrophic loss of...
The UK Government is fuelling the conflict in Yemen and is potentially violating both domestic and international laws on the sales of arms, Oxfam has warned.
While the UK is not directly involved in the bombing of Yemen, UK arms sales to Saudi Ara...
In contrast to many of the governments around Western Europe, and indeed the world, the church may well be willing to do its part in defending those who have be...
In a move that is as controversial as it is necessary, the BBC have announced that they will propose doing a daily news broadcast which will be beamed into Nort...
A petition calling on the Government to “swap” Katie Hopkins for 50,000 refugees from Syria is approaching the 50,000 signatures required. I should tell you though the 50,000 signatures does not mean that we get rid of Katie Hopkins, we should be so ...
So for over a decade, you've effectively gone through the same routine at the same time every year; you buy fresh stationery, fresh book materials and uniforms/...
One Direction are a band that have gained worldwide recognition and fans of all ages ever since they shot to fame on the hit reality competition show The X Fact...
Your time at university will be spent in a number of different ways – while you are obviously there to study and gain a degree in your chosen subject, there is so much more to university than this. For many of you, your time at university will be you...
On Tuesday YouGov published a roundabout set of polls concerning the public attitude towards the House of Lords under the heading 'Most people want fewer politi...
Cluster munitions have been used in five countries during 2015 posing a devastating threat to civilian populations caught in conflict zones, according to Human ...
You'll be familiar with the image of a starving child, squatting by a mud filled river filled with parasites, their only source of hydration, a haunting piano interlude playing in the background just to try pull even harder on your heartstrings. The ...
In another show that India is developing in to a world power and what we call a “First World Country”, they have eliminated another disease as a potential kille...
When Francesca Pardi sent Pope Francis her children’s book, “Why do you have two moms?” she probably wasn’t expecting a response from one of the most influentia...
The Spanish authorities have arrested an American man, a sentence not often heard, but in this case the charges turn the stomach of most ordinary people. The American is being charged with enslavement, the stomach turner, and diamond pillaging during...
The old adage that says working harder, for longer produces better results may well be changing according to a new study published this week.
Shortening the ...
As if America needed more gun deaths. Yet another of the citizens of the great nation we call the United States of America has lost their life to a gun crime. A...
A picture is worth a thousand words. In this case a picture is worth $170,000. A picture of an apparently very desperate man selling pens on the streets of Lebanon with his daughter asleep and slung across his shoulder has inspired an online fundrais...
In yet another show of how governments should really work harder to protect their citizens, a man has been released after spending the last 4 months in prison a...
Everyone has to make big decisions, it’s just a part of life, like eating or breathing, it’s something we all have to do. Some of us are even asked to make big life decisions when we’re still in secondary school, I know I did. Way back when I was a f...
