The backbone of postwar Britain's vast housebuilding drive, small builders now face extinction as regulatory barriers and ...

In this week’s newsletter: how mass exodus is bringing Cuba closer to collapse, Iran protests, and the new motorway dividing Mumbai ...

Walsall has been ranked the most deprived place in the UK ...

Respected author's personal memoir on how planners destroyed London's East End also uncovers new details of 1954 family ...

He has survived loss, breakdown and schooling by ‘scary nuns’, but the anguish is still there in his art. As his new show thrills Paris, the US-based, Irish-born artist talks about the pain that drive ...

Students and teachers celebrate Dennis Peter who scored A at Anestar Boys High School, Nakuru. He was a beneficiary of the school scholarship. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard] Some learners and schools that ...

Journal Editorial Report: Progressives are happy with New York's mayor as the party's poster boy. Photo: Richard Swafford/Zuma Press Talk about socialist irony. Zohran Mamdani said last week that his ...

Following the U.S. Donald Trump administration’s sudden arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on the 3rd under Operation “Absolute Resolve,” the U.S. governance plan for Venezuela is beginning ...

Mumbai: In a relief for one of India's oldest industrial houses, the Bombay city civil court has quashed a decades-old govt notification that sought to classify Godrej & Boyce manufacturing land in ...

In major urban centres, from financial capitals to political power hubs, glittering skylines often stand in stark contrast to sprawling slums. Administrations across the country have long sought to ...

The court was hearing a batch of 64 petitions filed between 2019 and 2025. These petitions highlighted issues such as non-payment of transit rent, delays in handing over permanent homes to eligible ...

Less than one hour into the start of the new year, a deadly fire broke out inside a Manchester apartment building. One person is dead, and several others are injured following a fire that started just ...