England's remaining grammar schools have become "Meccas" for ambitious parents hoping to avoid paying to educate their child privately, a leading academic has said.

The government at the centre is caught in a coalition bind in Jammu and Kashmir, where it recently struck a deal with the Valley-based People’s Democratic Front (PDF) led by Mufti Mohammed Sayid. With Sayid carrying the Valley in the State Assembly...

I write to you from the US. Here the ‘Get the vote out’ campaign during elections is as you can imagine slick and effective.

A new study suggests that for the first time the Conservatives could have more ethnic minority MPs elected in the next parliament, compared to the Labour Party.

A junior doctor working in paediatrics who sexually abused a child and groomed and abused others over the internet has been jailed for seven years.

Recently a client of ours sold all three properties he had purchased through us, making a handsome profit along the way.  His background is a modest one, he works as a carpenter and has a salary in the mid-twenties, two kids and a wife who works...

In Europe last week the Dutch finance minister acknowledged Greece was under pressure to find the cash to pay upcoming debt commitments.  However the new left-wing Greek government is keen to show voters it is keeping election promises to break...

Pakistani and Bangladeshi people in London's least healthy boroughs are being asked to provide spit samples and health records to researchers hoping to find genetic clues to why they are disproportionately affected by certain diseases.