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Parents are bringing in stationery, glue sticks, exercise books and boxes of tissues for their children. State schools are asking parents to donate hundreds of pounds a year to pay for salaries, buy textbooks and equipment and repair leaking buildings, a Times investigation has revealed. Grammars, comprehensives and primaries are increasingly relying on families to pay for essentials and in one case have asked for up to £1,200 per child each year. Others do not specify amounts but are rec

Three children were arrested and led away in handcuffs yesterday as a school pupils’ climate change protest halted traffic in Westminster. One pupil, dressed in school uniform, was led away with two others after buses and cars were brought to a standstill in the roads around Parliament Square. Thousands of children 60 towns were on strike from lessons for a day. They are campaigning against government inaction on global warming. Police warned the young protesters that they would be arrested if

President Tsai of Taiwan has criticised Beijing for “lacking democracy” in a Chinese New Year address to the public urging political change on the mainland.

The vast staircase outside Batu Caves, a Hindu temple site in Kuala Lumpur, has become a blessing for keen Instagrammers.

About 50 water-spraying drones were flown over Bangkok yesterday morning as part of frantic efforts to tackle surging air pollution levels.

Pupils at a school in China have been made to weigh themselves and threatened with stringent exercise routines if they overindulge during the holidays.

More than 150 pilot whales have died after being stranded on a beach in southern New Zealand

Academics at Birmingham University voted to withdraw services from its Dubai campus after the jailing of Matthew Hedges, pictured here with his wife, Daniela PA Lecturers at Birmingham University have voted for an academic boycott of its new campus in the United Arab Emirates as the Durham PhD student accused of spying starts his life sentence there. Following the imprisonment of Matthew Hedges, 31, who was conducting fieldwork in the UAE when he was arrested in May, they said the safety of...

Sixteen years ago, Jim O’Dell was just working a regular job in occupational safety and health when he first discovered the 2,000-year-old sport of dragon boat racing.

A possessive boyfriend has been jailed for “psychological abuse” in a controlling relationship in which he bullied and belittled his selfie-loving girlfriend over how she used social media. Matthew Bailey, 24, banned Molly Cunliffe, 19, a care assistant, from using Snapchat, ordered her not to swap Facebook and Instagram messages with heterosexual men and told her she was not allowed to put kisses at the end of social media posts.

A teenage student who suffered from depression hanged herself at her halls of residence after an argument by text message with her ex-boyfriend. Isabella Finnigan, 18, a first-year art student at Manchester Metropolitan University, had been upset at not being invited for a trip to Brighton with Matthew Leeves and began messaging and calling him repeatedly on May 30, 2015. He switched off his phone but the next day picked up a voicemail from Ms Finnigan saying that she was going to kill herself.

The man who has ruled Cambodia since 1985 declared a landslide victory in the country’s general election last night after a campaign marred by claims of voter intimidation.

The Khmer Will Party claim to represent the spirit of the country's dissolved opposition, but the election result seems inevitable.