The Court of Appeal is being asked to decide in a test case whether a pregnant woman committed “a crime of violence” against her child when she drank alcohol to excess while pregnant.

The world’s largest prawn supplier has said it has been working to cut ties with those involved in slavery in ancillary markets in Thailand.

Canada's ambassador to Iran has been ordered to leave the country by Tehran, the Canadian foreign minister said last night, calling the move entirely unjustifiable.

In the summer of 1956, playwright Arthur Miller married screen idol Marilyn Monroe in a Jewish ceremony, an event of high-level gossip for much of the world and of high-level curiosity for the US government.

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THE Government was urged yesterday to consider both raising taxes and going back to borrowing in a bid to help people who have benefited least from economic growth.

THE Government was urged yesterday to consider both raising taxes and going back to borrowing in a bid to help people who have benefited least from economic growth.