The culture secretary talks about soft skills, hard truths and how drama lessons helped on the big stage

Families are trying to find ways to pre-pay fees in anticipation of Labour adding VAT to the already escalating total

Gen Glaister always dreamed of working in a jail. But nothing could have prepared her for the variety of inmates, who both shocked and amazed her

Led by a lookout, Ria Chatterjee was granted rare entry to the stairwells where gangs rule France’s second city — and fearful neighbours avert their eyes

After starring in the two biggest films of last year, the pair have joined forces for The Fall Guy. They talk about life after Barbenheimer and why family comes first

Met Office is cautiously optimistic that next weekend will be warm, if not necessarily dry, after a chilly April

Lloyd Evans of The Spectator sparked outrage by writing about his visit to a sex worker after a lecture but residents say there are two sides to the city

A sociology teacher’s attempts to inspire his pupils turned into a quest to solve a 40-year-old cold case in Tennessee — and a hit podcast

Michael Gove backs report that proposes only the best universities be allowed to attract foreign students

The war in the Middle East has spawned a student protest movement from Columbia to California that is being likened to university mobilisations of the civil rights and Vietnam war era

They couldn’t find a girls’ team to play against, so Queens Park Ladies U12s started playing the boys instead. Then they started winning — and couldn’t stop

Royal source plays down speculation of family reunion after Kate’s cancer diagnosis

The British male supermodel Paul Sculfor was huge in the Noughties, but behind the scenes he was battling an addiction that nearly destroyed his life

The memorial was hidden under blue tarpaulin while tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched on Saturday

Your love, life and friendship dilemmas answered

The Australian miner wants its rival’s copper mines at a time when the red metal is in demand for electric cars, wind turbines and power networks

While the president cracked jokes and issued warnings about Donald Trump at the annual correspondents’ event, pro-Palestinian demonstrators chanted outside

The Chechen leader is said to be terminally ill, raising the prospect that the ‘balance of terror’ in the Caucasus will be upset and the Kremlin will have to intervene militarily, writes Russia...