As more pupils join reception lacking motor, speech and hygiene skills, charity calls for urgent action to avert an educational crisis

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‘Stop the boats’ is a popular refrain but it obscures the real issues rich countries across the world are facing

Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth

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Across the G20, centre-right parties have misunderstood the roots of the populist revolt against them

Photographs from the humanitarian disaster in Sudan and Chad

After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.

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Some were part of an International Criminal Court panel backing arrest warrants relating to alleged war crimes in Gaza

The 2011 phone hacking scandal continues to drip poison onto former executives from Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers, including Washington Post publisher Will Lewis

Prisoner releases bring joy, but also stories of horror

The House of Lords’ threshold for disclosure is 100 times higher than the US Senate’s

The court’s defenders say making an exception for Israel’s leader hands a win to Putin

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How should we treat the radicals willing to go to extremes to save the planet?

They weren’t a disaster first time around, but they could be next time