Council chief calls for inquiry into Environment Agency handling of landfill gas fears
Ministers urged to review the actions taken over toxic gasses at Staffordshire landfill site
Ministers urged to review the actions taken over toxic gasses at Staffordshire landfill site
Scientists hope that the discovery could pave the way for new treatments to cure degenerative brain diseases, reports Joe Middleton
Researcher warns ‘healthcare professionals should be alert to the possibility of long Covid in anyone with confirmed or suspected Covid-19,’ Samuel Osborne reports
State police have searched the home of Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren as part of a criminal investigation
Trump and his Republican backers are trying to divert attention from the deadly attack on 6 January, writes Alex Woodward
Colombia’s congress has voted against a health system overhaul bill, giving protesters another victory after 20 days of street demonstrations that have left dozens dead and forced the government to retreat on tax reform
Broadcaster set to publish report on Thursday amid claims ‘could be BBC’s phone-hacking moment’
‘She fought and she fought and she fought until finally she was able to break free from her would-be captor,’ says sheriff
The United States says it opposes a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire in the conflict between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the only one-on-one interviews she will do to mark two years on the job will be with journalists of color
The EU settlement scheme, which guarantees post-Brexit residency, closes on June 30
The government has promised a new era for rail passengers and end to ‘blame game’ when disruption occurs
Relatives of two people killed after shooters opened fire on a party bus driving on a San Francisco Bay Area freeway have identified them as two teenagers who were celebrating a friend’s 21st birthday
Family is pursuing a federal wrongful-death lawsuit
A Houston man who had been convicted in a 2010 fatal stabbing but was later eliminated as the killer by DNA evidence has been declared innocent by Texas’ highest criminal court
Lee Evans, the record-setting sprinter who wore a black beret in a sign of protest at the 1968 Olympics, has died
There has been a drop in the number of international nurses coming to work in the UK as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and Brexit
After a glittering career on the stage, the star established the National Dance Institute to educate children
Our desire to give food to other animals may drive domestication as much as the human desire to eat them does, writes James Gorman
A judge in Colombia has sentenced three Venezuelan men to six years in prison for helping organize an ill-conceived plot to remove President Nicolás Maduro involving former American Green Berets
In the year since George Floyd’s murder, Americans have been protesting in many different ways, writes Andrew Buncombe
Kids and adults alike want to collect them all, Panini stickers are nostalgic pastime for many, but what can statistics tell us about the probability of completing the album? Writes Craig Anderson
Officers say it is ‘unconscionable’ for Republican leadership to oppose 9/11-style bipartisan inquiry into 6 January assault
The based-on-a-true-story “Dream Horse,” about a Welsh bartender who turns unlikely race horse breeder, is a feel-good movie that’s a little too heavy on the “feel-good” to really do the trick
Federal forecasters say the central Pacific basin including Hawaii can expect between two and five tropical depressions, tropical storms or hurricanes this year