TRAINS were cancelled across Bangladesh today as railway workers went on strike for higher pensions and other benefits, affecting tens of thousands of passengers and freight transport. Bangladesh ...

DOZENS of demonstrators attacked several foreign embassies in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital Kinshasa today. The Rwandan, French and Belgian embassies were targeted by protesters demanding ...

Mr Vucevic told a news conference that his resignation was intended to ease tensions over the canopy collapse, which killed 15 people in the northern city of Novi Sad. “It is my appeal for everyone to ...

SUSPECTED drug deaths in Scotland have fallen by 10 per cent in a quarter, according to new figures. The latest Rapid Drugs Alerts and Response (Radar) report records 215 drug-related deaths between ...

HOUSEHOLD water bills will rise by 9.9 per cent next year, Scottish Water announced today. Despite 52 per cent of the 2.6 million homes they serve already requiring financial support with their bills, ...

THE Scottish TUC has called for greater worker protection after workers were “put in harm’s way” by unscrupulous employers during Storm Eowyn. A new STUC report has shown that workers felt compelled ...

ACTIVISTS from Just Stop Oil gatecrashed a West End performance of Shakespeare’s classic The Tempest on Monday evening to ...

RAIL workers at Unipart Rail’s Crewe Depot walked out today over the firm’s “disgraceful” decision to strip them of RMT union ...

Martin Smith speaks to general secretary of the App Drivers and Couriers Union ZAMIR DRENI about his members’ fight against the nefarious methods of exploitation by shadowy app giants like Uber and Bo ...

A multipolar world is emerging where a number of countries of the global South are now using their growing economic power and ...

As Gazans return to the ruins of their homes, their chants and songs and moving spirit of defiance point the way to a new ...

TEENAGERS who joined last summer’s far-right riots were driven mostly by thrill-seeking and a mistrust of police, the children’s commissioner has said. Dame Rachel de Souza said interviews with 14 — ...