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Parents face paying hundreds of pounds for uniforms as the back-to-school rush begins. 

The red worm was alive and wriggling as doctors pulled it out of the woman's brain.

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly visits China on Wednesday hoping to tread a fine diplomatic line between calling out Beijing over human rights abuses and posturing over Taiwan and seeking greater cooperation on economic ties and climate change.

The multimillionaire former biotech executive Vivek Ramaswamy took centre stage at the first Republican debate last week as he bids to win his party’s 2024 presidential nomination.

A woman has had an 8cm-long parasitic roundworm removed from her brain, reported The Guardian. The 64-year-old, who has experienced forgetfulness and depression, was admitted to hospital after three weeks of abdominal pain and diarrhoea, followed by a dry cough and night sweats. A scan revealed that a motile helminth…

When Attack Attack! filmed a video for their song Stick Stickly, a certain crustacean-aping movement went instantly viral

Energy bills will fall in October from £2,074 to £1,923 a year for the typical household, Ofgem has announced.

Elections are due next year in some of the world’s biggest democracies, including the US, India and Indonesia, heralding the possibility of significant political upheaval across the globe.

The English Chess Federation (ECF) has said that it will not enforce restrictions on transgender people’s involvement in the game, in defiance of new rules introduced by chess’s international governing body.

It's no accident that Wendy's, McDonald's and Taco Bell are all starting to look more and more alike inside

The Lionesses’ goalkeeper came from ‘a dark place’ to become a national treasure. Maddy Mussen reports on Mary, Queen of Stops