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Years after putting her own education aside for family, Ms Pamela Govinden found that the opportunity to learn had not passed her by, encouraged by younger colleagues and her own willingness to try again.

As Elliot Anderson returns to Nottingham Forest after his £116m move to Manchester City, has he lived up to the price tag?

Our critics cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases.

A husband who drugged and raped his wife for 21 years was a 'monster' who lived a double life, a court has heard.

Uncle who changed locks of his home, was ‘genuinely of the view’ there was no tenancy, tribunal accepts

<p>Brazilian media ridicule defeated candidate over ‘shameful’ absconsion to US and bizarre letter with wrong coat of arms</p><p>Flávio Bolsonaro had hoped that by Sunday night people would be calling him the next president of Brazil.</p><p>Instead, the far-right politician’s decision to flee to the US after losing the election and – for 58 minutes – to <a h

“Bára Basiková is a truly fascinating singer,” says Czech documentary filmmaker Helena Třeštíková, who was honored for her contribution to the genre at this week’s Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival. Her subject for the 50-year time lapse docu “Bára – Diary of a Rockstar,” Basiková sang in rock bands before the Velvet Revolution, including Precedens and […]

Two nearly complete fossilized skeletons of the strange new species were found in southwestern China. Scientists suspect its marine lifestyle was an evolutionary accident

A remarkably preserved elephant tooth dating back nearly 700,000 years has revealed a surprisingly lush prehistoric world where giant elephants and early humans lived side by side. Discovered in northern Israel alongside ancient stone tools, the tooth belonged to a straight-tusked elephant, one of the largest land mammals of the Ice Age.

The sands of the Arabian peninsula were once dotted with lakes that teemed with life, but early humans avoided them unless they came with easy access to stone for tool-making

She was famously gregarious, hosting lunches and dinners in her various homes and in hotels around Dublin

More than four years after his release from an Iranian jail, Anoosheh Ashoori still wakes up with nightmares from the “dark, dark moments” he experienced there. Mr Ashoori, 72, was speaking on a dreary wet day outside the UK Parliament. The former inmate of Tehran's most notorious prison was out on the street to call on the UK government to do more to releas

Adelaide mother Amira hosted parties and had just been promoted, but following a relationship breakdown, she lived in her car for 10 months.