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SNP MP David Linden also urged the DWP to extend the benefit cap to help families on a low income.

Campaign to get Government to increase value of Healthy Start scheme

Lebanon’s Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi launched on Sunday a scathing attack against “complacent” MPs who have failed to elect a president since Michel Aoun’s term ended in November. During his Sunday sermon, he said the lawmakers’ blind following of their political leaders was tantamount to “great treason.” The Lebanese people…

Children’s charity Buttle UK spoke to 1,000 health and care workers who look after 60,000 youngsters. Charity chief Joseph Howes says the situation for at-risk children is getting 'progressively worse'

Pope Francis on Friday arrived in South Sudan – a country hit by civil war and extreme poverty – for a three-day visit to spread the message of peace and reconciliation.

Pope Francis began a visit to South Sudan on Friday with an impassioned plea to its fractious leaders to turn their backs on the violence, ethnic hatred and corruption that have stopped the world's youngest country from achieving peace and prosperity.

A mechanical watch is not just a timepiece, but a reminder of the unfinished mission of Seub Nakhasathien, who laid down his life for conservation in 1990. At the helm of Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary in Uthai Thani, he suffered numerous setbacks from deforestation and poaching to poverty. And…

“We don’t think white people have just categorically different brains than Black people. We really think it’s due to the different experiences these groups have,” the study’s lead researcher said.

The latest figures follow MPs hearing that around 12 million households are now spending more than 10% of their income on energy bills - the previous definition of fuel poverty