Asylum decisions at record rate
A record 11,340 asylum claims were processed last month after hundreds of extra caseworkers were taken on to clear the huge backlog of cases, according to Home Office fig...
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Creatures are becoming extinct at a frightening rate. So who cares?
Life began on earth around 3.8bn years ago. From the first, death and extinction were part of the story.
For more than 2bn years, the planet was occupied only by microb...
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Voters rate devolution a failure, says survey
Most British voters do not think devolution has been a success, according to the first countrywide opinion poll on the new political set-up.
The ICM survey found that 9...
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Mystery of murder rate drop solved
A US criminologist has solved the great American murder mystery: why the national homicide rate has been falling for the past six years.
Part of the answer was quite sim...
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Cable firm offers flat-rate internet
From today 4.5m homes will have cheaper access to the internet as a result of a move by Telewest to charge a flat £10 monthly fee for dialling up the worldwide web. ...
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Mandelson 'made dome third rate
The Millennium Dome might have been saved from becoming a "mad woman's breakfast" if Peter Mandelson had kept his nose out if it, its former design guru claimed yesterday...
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Second-rate England face tough draw
England's status as a second-rate team was underlined yesterday when Uefa ranked them as only the 17th best team in Europe and the 13th best of the 16 taking part in the ...
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Crime still falling but at slower rate
Recorded crime in England and Wales has fallen by 1.4% to 4.5m offences a year, and includes the first reduction in violent crime seen for many years, according to home o...
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American execution rate soars
The death penalty has already been used in the United States more times this year than in any year since 1954.
Seventy-eight death row inmates have so far been executed...
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Cut-rate millennium
Originally it was going to be the new year's eve party of the millennium: pubs open for 36 hours of partying in the UK; restaurants booked out years in advance; flights t...
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