In the age of Amazon, the humble independent bookshop has become an endangered species. In 1950s New York, there were 368 bookstores, according to local public radio network WNYC. Today, just 79 remain. France, by contrast, has 2500 bookstores for a population eight times as big; a dreadful insult to cerebral New Yorkers, who pride […]

How will history judge Theresa May, the latest Conservative prime minister brought down by Europe? Theresa May at a press conference at 10 Downing Street last year.Credit:AP May was encouraged by advisers to personalise the campaign and capitalise on her apparent popularity. But her "strong and stable" slogan, repeated ad nauseam, never recovered from the […]

Black students are doing worse than white students by a huge margin at nearly half Britain’s universities and are still under-represented at Oxbridge There is 20 per cent gap at nearly half of UK universities between the students  Only 1.8 per cent of students admitted to Oxford are black Students were measured on their degree […]

Bearded men look angrier than clean-shaven types when they are angry but happier when they are jolly say scientists Dr Belinda Craig researched the effect men with beards communicating emotion She found men with beards looked angrier when angry than clean shaven men The study also found people were quick to recognise a bearded man’s was angry […]

(Reuters) – A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit Papua New Guinea’s New Britain island, 186 km (115 miles) east of Kandrian, on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the quake which, USGS said struck at 1120 GMT, the Center added. Earlier reports measured the magnitude at […]

Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid crashed into a shallow sea near Mexico. The impact, named after the nearby Mexican town of Chicxulub, carved out a 145-kilometre-wide crater and flung mountains of earth into space. Earthbound debris fell to the planet in droplets of molten rock and glass. Ancient fish caught glass blobs in […]

“Loved ones have not been able to make contact with her since” Police Samantha was last seen by friends between 1.30am and 2am on March 29 in Harden Street, Five Points. The University of South Carolina student got into a dark-coloured car which witnesses think may have been a Chevrolet Impala. Samantha’s real Uber driver […]

EXCLUSIVE: We’ll write your PhD thesis… for £6,173! British students cheat their way to doctorates by paying companies to write their dissertations Three ‘essay mill’ companies told a reporter posing as a student that they would write PhD theses from scratch for between £2,559 and £6,173 One consultant told the reporter that it was ‘impossible’ […]

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey will solve the Syria issue “on the field” after Sunday’s local elections, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, as he sought to drum up support for his AK Party in the vote. Turkey has carried out two cross-border operations against Kurdish militants in northern Syria and has warned that it will […]

School administrators in Louisiana say they are investigating the aggressive takedown of a female middle school student caught on video this week. The video, shot at Ponchatoula Junior High School, on the northwest side of Lake Pontchartrain, shows a man slinging the student to the ground and placing his knee on her chest as he […]