Plans for a new "Technical Baccalaureate" to run alongside A-levels will be unveiled by the Government today.

Thousands of passengers face a difficult day of disruption after Lufthansa cancelled the majority of its flights scheduled due to a strike over pay.

In the goodie bag given to finishers of the Boston Marathon on Monday was a yellow running jersey with blue writing up the sleeve, saying "Boston Marathon 2013."

Book traces fate of Cold War defectors who went the 'wrong way'

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Gunners boss now has a core of young English players

The author of Eleven Days in August remarks on the contrast between revolutions in the digital age and those decades ago. But some things haven't changed, says Matthew Cobb

Mail was suspected of containing explosives

The Germany international looks set for Stamford Bridge

A dire month saw European new car sales slump 10 per cent in March and put the industry on course for its worst performance in 20 years, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association said yesterday.

Breast implant firm’s founder faces fraud charge alongside four colleagues

Blues set to hold talks with Bayer Leverkusen over deal for Germany international

Michael Page saw its share price drop 5 per cent after the white collar recruiter admitted it had seen a double-digit plunge in profits at its French and German offices in the first three months of 2013.

Is this how to sell Robinson Crusoe and Bleak House to a new generation? To package them like pulp fiction (complete with cheap-looking yellow-sprayed colour edges), give them a raunchy cover and précis the contents with a trashy tagline? Oldcastle Books thinks so. Its “Pulp! The Classics” imprint has already brought out retro versions of Pride and Prejudice (“Lock Up Your Daughters – Darcy’s In Town!”), Robinson Crusoe (“Solitude Was Driving Him Nuts!”) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (“Murder… Mystery… Walkies!”) with cover art by David Mann, and inevitably it has turned its sights on The Great Gatsby, to coincide with the movie’s release on 15 May.