Weight-loss drugs look poised to have a worrying effect on UK supermarkets as total grocery sales volumes fall. Market research firm Kantar has suggested the use of so-called "skinny jabs" may partly...

Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students toldJust nowBranwen JeffreysEducation editor•@branwenjeffreysGetty ImagesStudents should be ready to be shocked and offended at...

University researchers have identified the true author of a scathing contemporary criticism of William Shakespeare, more than 400 years after the Bard was attacked by England's literary elites and...

A shipwreck believed to hold one of the greatest lost treasures in history has been confirmed by researchers, igniting a multi-billion-pound legal battle over who owns it.For more than 300 years, the...

The mystic Gospel of Thomas, an ancient text featuring 114 sayings purportedly from Jesus, paints the spiritual icon not as a miracle-worker but akin to a New Age sage, poised in sharp contrast to...

Sotheby's halts Buddha jewels auction after India threat57 minutes agoHelen SullivanBBC NewsReutersThe auction house Sotheby's has postponed its sale in Hong Kong of hundreds of sacred jewels linked...

Sir Keir Starmer will warn of modern parallels with the Second World War, as he urges the UK to seize the "dividend" from his plans to raise defence spending.The Prime Minister is also expected to...

Once a year, we are reminded with bowed heads and solemn rituals of a horror that should have ensured, once and for all, that the Jewish people would never again walk alone into the abyss. Yom...

US President Donald Trump is now taking them on and has withdrawn state funding from Harvard and other top American institutions in a campaign that we should ape in the UK.Furious at the failure to...

A town in Britain is so conservative that its last Labour MP died over 100 years ago. However, its local constituency is fearing a challenge from Reform UK in the upcoming elections as Nigel Farage...