Category: Briefs

Someone living below the US poverty level, earning $11,000 a year expressed as real purchasing power, is in the top 15 per cent of the

Since the felling of the Twin Towers in New York on 11th of September 2001 some three quarters of a million refugees have been admitted to

Smith, the most common name in the UK, is derived from the Old English term meaning one who works in metal. Foreign names with the

While the Prison Service copes with a 25 per cent cut in funding, the number of prisoners over 60 doubled to 4,000 over the last

Fifty-three years ago this week, as the Cuban Missile Crisis played out, the world came closer to catastrophe than at any other time in history.

Mass shootings may appear commonplace in the USA but according to figures from the FBI the murder rate is in decline. There were 9.4 murders