In his speech at the Labour Party’s conference in Brighton,John McDonnell said Britons were working some of the longest hours in Europe and promised that would change.

The report also predicts the mass-scale production of 3D-printed organs, implants to monitor our health and self-cleaning homes will be key parts of everyday life.

Public anger has been blamed for the rise of ‘disruptive’ politicians around the globe, but new research suggests the opposite may be true, writes Raj Persaud

Leon Gast’s 1996 When We Were Kings is one of the great sports films, indeed it may be one of the greatest of all films.

Alexander Temerko, a friend of Boris Johnson with connections to the highest level of the Kremlin, has donated over £1m to the Conservative Party, writes

Bill Kaysing was a former US Navy officer who worked as a technical writer for one of the rocket manufacturers for NASA’s Apollo moon missions, writes Peter Knight.

Premier Inn owner Whitbread, which is now focused on the hotel business after the sale of its Costa Coffee chain, reported lower-room revenue over the past three months as companies cut back on business travel.

In advance of his trip to Ireland, Roddy ‘Radiation’ Byers looks back on his early days with The Specials, and tells Ellie O’Byrne about the musical subgenre he invented

The referendum was in 2016 but the UK still doesn’t know when it is leaving the EU – or even if it is leaving at all. How did it all come to this, asks Christopher Fear

Brace yourselves for a staggeringly pure truth which is stranger than fiction.

Air quality linked to cancer, diabetes and chronic lung disease

It is natural that we view events through the prism of our beliefs. The 52% of Britons who voted to quit the EU will regard the resignation of seven MPs from the Labour party earlier this week, and yesterday’s decision by three Tory MPs to follow them, as good riddance.

Tunisian authorities have given seven suspects life terms and handed out other sentences after a trial over two separate attacks that killed around 60 people in 2015 - mainly tourists.

EU ambassadors have agreed British citizens should be able to go on holiday to Europe without a visa after the UK leaves the European Union.

Yanis Varoufakis says an enormous sense of anxiety pervades the Brexit debate but a People’s Debate is a democratic way of squaring this circle and solving many issues.

Our eating habits have changed drastically in the last few decades.

Avoiding compulsory military service has a long and honourable history — from cross-dressing Corporal Klinger in MASH to Donald Trump’s bone spurs — and the recent plight of Tottenham’s South Korean striker Son Heung-min showed that the art of draft-dodging remains highly relevant, writes Tommy Martin.

Roger Bannister, the first person to run a sub four-minute mile, died at the weekend. He was 88.

Theresa May accused Labour of betraying Britons over Brexit as she faced calls to put the country ahead of her Cabinet's "oversized egos".

Police in Cambodia have charged a group of 10 tourists with producing pornographic pictures after images emerged of people apparently demonstrating different sex positions.

Six people have died after a sea plane crashed near Sydney, Australia.

Britain's economy saw the first cracks appear from Brexit uncertainty in 2017 as growth slowed and households were gripped in the worst income squeeze since the 1950s.

THE considerable relief that greeted the 11th-hour deal between the EU and Britain may cause a modest flutter in

The European Commission has said that "sufficient progress" must be made on three key issues before it will move on to negotiations on trade and the transition to a future EU/UK relationship.

A stable and secure EU could become the most important pillar of the UK’s post-Brexit security strategy, writes Jacek Rostowski

The Bank of England is widely expected to raise interest rates for the first time in more than 10 years next week, after the next meeting of its monetary policy committee.

Jeremy Corbyn claimed it was "Groundhog Day" over Brexit before warning Theresa May her biggest battle is with the "warring" Tory factions rather than the EU.

British consumers are vulnerable to a hike in interest rates, ratings agency Moody’s has said, two weeks before the Bank of England is widely expected to hike borrowing costs for the first time in more than a decade.

British consumers are vulnerable to a hike in interest rates, ratings agency Moody’s has said, two weeks before the Bank of England is widely expected to hike borrowing costs for the first time in more than a decade.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave Theresa May a Brexit boost as EU leaders gathered for a summit in Brussels, saying there were "encouraging" signs that talks on the future UK/EU trade relationship could begin as early as December.

More than a million illegal TV set-top boxes which allow consumers to stream content illegally have been sold in the UK in the last two years, investigators have warned.

A healthy amount of sleep has a far higher impact on wellbeing than a 50% increase in disposable income, a study of quality of life in the UK has found.

Proposals for new restrictions to cut numbers of low-skilled migrants from Europe following Brexit have been revealed in a leaked Home Office paper.

Isolated communities, segregation and unregulated schooling in the UK are a "breeding ground" for extremism and future jihadists, a counter-terrorism police chief has warned.

The poisonous tone of the referendum campaign on quitting the European Union has fuelled the demonisation of immigrants and created huge obstacles for social integration, according to MPs.

British retail sales growth slowed in August at the fastest pace in more than a year as the squeeze on consumers from rising prices continued.

Ireland is now the fourth most confident country in Europe with consumer sentiment here higher than in the UK for the first time in nearly nine years, according to market research firm Nielsen.

UK farmers might move production abroad, while others could give up if they cannot hire the staff, an industry representative has said.

When Myer Bookman was born in Hibernian Buildings on Albert Road in 1891, to a Jewish family from Russia, he could hardly have dreamt how his birth could still be having repercussions in European identity politics more than a century later.

The UK has urged Brussels to show "respect" to expats by addressing "significant gaps" in their offer on their citizenship rights as it emerged that Britons in the European Union could lose their automatic ability to move to another country in the bloc after Brexit.

Dozens of people have flown back to Gatwick Airport to find difficulty being reunited with their cars after a meet-and-greet parking company apparently stopped trading.

Consumer sentiment among UK households has fallen to its lowest level since just after the Brexit vote. The rising cost of living and the inconclusive general election have deterred Britons from spending on big-ticket items.

The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator has promised to deal with negotiations on the UK's withdrawal in a "constructive" way and said he believed a "fair" deal was possible for both sides and "far better" than the prospect of the UK leaving without an agreement.

In-laws are apparently to blame for more than half of married couples' rows.