RAIL union RMT has demanded that Transport for London (TfL) drop plans to extend a £700m outsourced cleaning contract.The union’s general secretary, Eddie Dempsey, wrote to the Mayor of London and TfL ...

YOUTH-LED demonstrators in Morocco took to the streets on Thursday for a sixth straight night despite fears of more violence after police killed three people the previous night.The protesters in at ...

THE Home Office “missed opportunities” to assess the mental health of an asylum-seeker who took his own life on Bibby Stockholm, a coroner had ruled. Leonard Farruku was found unresponsive in the ...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin warned on Thursday that relations between the United States and Russia will be seriously damaged if Washington supplies long-range missiles to Ukraine.But President ...

SOME of Britain’s biggest banks are not only continuing to plough billions into oil and gas, but are throwing “ever larger sums into environmentally damaging industries,” according to a new report ...

MORE than two-thirds of adults in Scotland believe politicians must do more to tackle housing issues, according to new polling. Housing charity Shelter Scotland published the research as it launched ...

PAKISTAN: A Pakistani security raid on a militant hideout in the insurgency-hit south western Balochistan province this week left seven insurgents dead, the military said on Friday.The raid on ...

ISRAELI forces intercepted today the last boat from an international flotilla trying to break Israel’s sea blockade of war-ravaged Gaza as cities around the world erupted into more protests against ...

CAMPAIGNERS have vowed to stand up to hate on the anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, all the more significant following Thursday’s horrific attack at a Manchester synagogue.Tomorrow marks 89 ...

JOHN WIGHT writes on the famous final battle between Ali and Frazier, and the latter’s brilliant trainer Eddie Futch LINSEY SMITH was thrilled to play a starring role in England’s dominant 10-wicket ...

AT LEAST 91 civilians were killed within 10 days last month in Sudan’s besieged city of el-Fasher in attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the United Nations said on Thursday. The ...

THE Battle of Cable Street, the anniversary of which falls tomorrow, is much mythologised.The East Enders who barred the way to Britain’s home-grown fascists as they attempted to intimidate the Jewish ...