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Householders are angered by the discovery they cannot remortgage or sell their homes after installing spray-foam insulation to cut energy use.

Call for better safety measures as ‘civic volunteer’ arrested after attack on female trainee doctor in Kolkata...

EPA says Tucson’s drinking water is contaminated but air force claims agency lacks authority to order cleanup...

There is “clear” Russian involvement in the far-right riots and security services will be looking closely at the instigators, a former head of the MI6 Russia desk has said....

When you’ve lost Nancy Pelosi, you might as well clear out your desk....

A central London glass police box has been made to look like a tank of piranhas, in the seventh in series of works by the graffiti artist Banksy....

Golan, who entered politics five years ago after a career in the army, is one of the most prominent of the many brave Israelis who took matters into their own hands that day to save others. His new image as a hero has given his political career a shot in the arm – and he has decided his new mission is to revive his country’s...

Scratch a digital capitalist and you’ll find a technological determinist – someone who believes that technology drives history. These people see themselves as agents of what Joseph Schumpeter famously described as “creative destruction”. They revel in “moving fast and breaking things” as the Facebook founder, Mark...

Scientists have developed a “holy grail” insulin that responds to changing blood sugar levels in real-time and could revolutionise treatment for millions of people with type 1 diabetes worldwide....

Official says Kyiv is seeking to ‘stretch the enemy’ and western partners were ‘indirectly’ involved...

Since fall of Roe, 14 states have passed near-total abortion bans – most with no exceptions for rape or incest survivors...

The hunt to find the rioters and the people who incited them began the moment the first brick was thrown. But the efforts to catch them will last weeks or months, and involve super-recognisers, specialist software, video doorbells and, in a few cases, criminal stupidity....

Opponents fear proposed bill could allow girls as young as nine to marry, erode women’s rights and give greater powers to clerics...

Animal services officials in southern California have rescued more than 100 neglected animals including dogs, horses, birds and pet cockroaches from a home in Riverside county....

Members of an “uncontacted” Indigenous group used bows and arrows to attack loggers in the Peruvian Amazon in a confrontation that left at least one person injured, according to a local Indigenous organisation....

Children will be taught how to spot extremist content and misinformation online under planned changes to the school curriculum, the education secretary said....