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An officer is under investigation for rape, a young man is in hospital, and people want answers.
The story of Trevor Thomas.
IS has proved very adept at fending off massive conventional forces – but that doesn’t mean crack private security teams would do any better.
Fathers aren’t to blame for all of their childrens’ problems.
Just a month after moving into the Élysée Palace, the new president will face the country’s parliamentary elections.
Beware the ‘clasp and yank’.
Thanks to the US’s polarised politics, presidents beloved abroad are controversial at home.
There are double standards underlying the difficulties faced by Afghan asylum seekers in the West.
Losing a national security adviser is one thing – weeks and months of slow-drip crises is quite another.
Meet the real Daniel Blakes.
As with so many other areas of policy, Trump vacillates from one pole to another on Israel.
Another ‘last chance’ has been missed. But while talks disintegrate, islanders are just getting on with peace in practice.
Dating apps are convenient – but they lack the sensuality craved by Victorian aesthetes.
Fewer than half a million people are currently receiving the new, simplified benefit according to newly released data.
Pre-referendum polling suggested South Asian voters were quite pro-Remain, but more recent data tells another story.
After World War II, psychologists identified character traits that explained why so many people were complicit in Hitler’s crimes. Are we seeing something similar now?
The divine right of kings was dismantled after a bloody conflict nearly 400 years ago. The impulse which led to that change should protect us from the reign of the White House emperor.
Government departments have been squeezed particularly hard over the past few years. Now they need to find thousands of people who can work out how to leave the EU.
All the politicians and journalists claim to care about Stoke, but none of them live here.
Long regarded as something approaching a saint, Myanmar’s de facto head of state appears to be running out of moral capital.
New research suggests the road to bribery is more of a steep cliff than a slippery slope.
A BBC report has revealed the extent of drug use in UK prisons. It will be difficult to tackle the problem without a radical review of sentencing practices.
Great powers are often deadly rivals, but their leaders can still learn to communicate properly.
Could the Iraqi army’s banner offensive against IS tear it apart?