Complaining about Thames’s financial structure should not delay the whole project

Naturist San Franciscans may be forced to cover up, after the city's Board of Supervisors voted to ban public displays of genitalia.

This haunting image by photographer Marcus Doyle is taken from his "Salton Sea" series, which forms part of his Thursday by the Sea exhibition, opening at London's Margaret Street Gallery this Tuesday.

Sheer volume of rain is overwhelming communities previously considered immune. Jonathan Brown reports

The Leeds hooker was let go by the Giants but on Saturday he meets them in the Challenge Cup final. He talks to Dave Hadfield

Well the name sounds Brazilian, does he have something to do with the next Olympic Games?

Campaign ad implicitly blaming Romney for wife's cancer death is causing a furore

Katherine Boo's debut about the vertiginousness of existence in a "Mumbai slum" is the antidote to mainstream books and films on the subject from the English-speaking world. It's framed by her noting the lack of "deeply reported" non-fiction about India. Her method, developed "within poor communities in the US", is to invest time and attention in the complex interiors of "small" people.

Government strategists might have preferred it if Treasury minister David Gauke had given a more deft answer when an interviewer asked him about the practice of paying tradespeople such as builders, plumbers and cleaners in cash.

The practice of paying workmen “cash in hand” was condemned as “morally wrong” today by a Treasury minister.

Outlook On the face of it, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) ought to be having a torrid time.

Wolseley, the FTSE 100-listed building giant behind Plumb Center, is exploring "strategic options" for its business in France, with an outright sale thought to be the preferred option.

The Government set out plans yesterday to reform the water industry, claiming that opening up the sector would save the economy £2bn over 30 years,

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