It is no longer considered smart to claim: "Oh, I'm hopeless at maths," but that doesn't mean most of us are much good at it. So certain chapters in this book, written by a professor of mathematical sciences, are a distinct challenge for those of us who haven't attempted to unravel an equation for years.

Seven-year-old Farley Staines became moderately deaf as a side effect of the chemotherapy he underwent to battle liver cancer, aged three and a half.

Teachers will be striking today at a school being forced to become an academy.

Inside Cisco House there’s a technological revolution going on – taking the way the Games has taken shape to highlight what can be achieved when we pull together, says Rhodri Marsden

Most women fell for him: his office manager’s job was to change the photographs in his flat when needed

While thousands of impoverished people in the crisis-hit countries of Europe have been marching in opposition to more spending cutbacks and austerity measures, rather different scenes will soon be played out in an Athens courtroom.

Readers of 'Belle de Jour' often thought I was cold I think part of that is a scientific detachment that came through in my writing, which was influenced by my scientific education. When I was anonymous [writing her "Diary of a London Call Girl" blog] people identified this trait and made the accusation that I must be a man. But I also heard from lots of sex workers who said, "This is true to my experience."

Thousands of five-year-olds are arriving at school with too limited a vocabulary to take part in lessons, a senior government adviser revealed today.

Grammar schools should have greater expectations of their pupils when it comes to exam passes, according to a study published today.

In a small but important step towards redressing past wrongs, the Protection of Freedoms Act, which passed into law yesterday, means that men with convictions for consensual gay sex, or those who have been maliciously convicted of "loitering with intent", can have the convictions expunged from the record.

As a pupil whose abilities lay very much beyond the sports pitch, I recall distinctly the contempt and cruelty with which I was treated by those in charge of my supposed physical wellbeing. The problem with sport in schools is that it's precisely that – not exercise, not health, not calisthenics, but sport. And sport is not for all.

He would always be the President who sold his soul to remain in power

The inquest into the death of an 'unhappy' spy, whose body was found locked inside a sports holdall just a week before he was due to leave his job, today heard how police may still bring criminal charges in the ongoing investigation.