Iain Duncan Smith was accused on Monday of relying on “dodgy” statistics to justify the Government’s  £26,000-a-year benefits cap for each household.

Domenico Codispoti is restricted to a patch of pavement in central Milan

Cities and towns across the western United States took emergency measures on Saturday to cope with a heatwave, after dozens of people were taken ill and the region sweltered in dangerous triple-digit temperatures.

With interns three times more likely to find a graduate job, Helen Saul shares some of the trials, tribulations and ultimately rewarding experiences of her year in Paris

Dr Karen Shalev-Greene, director of the Centre for the Study of Missing Persons, is currently studying the ways different cases are treated in the media.

Tens of  thousands of people forced to evacuate their homes as further dramatic rises in the levels of the swollen Elbe and Danube rivers continued to cause chaos

Aid to Africa ‘is in Britain’s interest’

Teenagers will be helped to stay with their foster parents until they reach 21 under plans being put to MPs this week.

Prince Philip is admitted to hospital

City manager 'deeply sorry' for ploy

We're too quick to forgive multinational corporations with a new PR trick

Redundancy and homelessness are grim legacies of austerity measures

Benefit changes, rising private rents, and depleted social housing all force councils to spend billions at Travelodge and Premier Inn in stop-gap measures to help evicted families