Новости за 17.08.2016

Obama has a two-week window in the first half of January when he's still president but the new Congress will have convened. He must take it if this blot on the US reputation is to end

A look at masculinity and patriarchy, Two Man Show is played by two women

These companies and tax limitation advisors should have been the target of Government efforts from the off. The state versus the 'boy done well' was never going to win hearts and minds

A piece of theatre which could be performed by anyone else, and yet only Kitson can truly fill it with purpose

Experts warn of perfect pension storm with inflation, economic downturn and even new rules on exit penalties set to hit savers hard

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Frank Field, the Labour MP, says his party lost one million votes to Ukip at the 2015 general election and they could be set to lose more following Brexit

Frank Field, the Labour MP, says his party lost one million votes to Ukip at the 2015 election and could be set to lose more following Brexit

Neither the International Olympic Committee nor Rio's Olympic Organising Committee have answered requests for help from Massimo Bottura

He might be right, but his remarks were unwise. Someone who wants to be prime minister cannot say this kind of thing out loud

When the Turkish army staged a coup in 1980, the country's prison capacity had to be raised from 55,000 to 80,000 to make way for detainees. There is no reason to suppose that the next lot of inmates will fare any better

The stage-musical adaptation of the 1993 movie reunites the team behind the smash-hit Matilda

Black people are three times more likely to have a Taser used on them, while black men are 17 times more likely to suffer from psychotic illnesses and so face an increased risk of having the weapon discharged against them by police

Reviled and condemned by Muslims, without the oxygen of publicity he may have been consigned to a footnote of history. Instead, he was invited on flagship TV and radio programmes

Many people complained that a referendum was the wrong way to decide such a complex question as Britain's membership of the EU. In the first of two articles, our Chief Political Commentator looks at the origin of the referendum in our constitution and what would have happened without it

The popular weedkiller, glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is so commonly used that it has been detected in small levels in bread, human urine and breast milk

No-one wants to turn the clock back to the old days of under-funded and unloved British Rail, but there is another way

New HMRC proposals could see advisers fined up to 100 per cent of the underpaid tax