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A major undercover exposé of the white supremacist-linked ‘alt-right’ movement is launched today, revealing the year that a gay anti-racist activist from Sweden spent deep inside the world’s most active far-right network, on both sides of the Atlantic. Included as part of a groundbreaking new report into the ‘alt-right’ and its sister movement, the ‘alt-light’, The International Alternative Right: From Charlottesville to the White House has been compiled by British anti-extremism organisation HOPE not hate, which today is launching a...

The OECD has published its Interim Economic Outlook showing the world economy is picking up momentum - except for the UK. The pace of expansion is projected to be faster this year than in 2016, with a further uptick expected in 2018. The US is projected to grow by 2.4 per cent in 2018 and Germany, France, Italy and the general Euro area are also forecast to post strong results. Conversely, the previously identified growth slowdown in the United Kingdom is...

This shocking photo shows TEN ambulances queuing outside an overstretched A&E department with patients being treated inside the vehicles and in corridors. The line of vehicles waiting outside the Royal Cornwall Hospital highlights the deepening crisis within hospitals with patients being warned to stay away if possible. The lack of beds has been blamed on a combination of governments cuts in social care leading to 'bed-blocking' and the closure of local treatment centres. Lib Dem councillor Colin Martin posted a...

Climate change is a divisive issue. The US’ stance on the Paris Agreement of 2015 is just one example of that. And while disagreements over the extent of the threat posed by climate change are all too common, the world’s countries are even more divided on how best to address that threat. From reforestation to electric cars, the potential solutions are many and diverse in nature. One mooted remedy is altering the surface albedo of the earth. For the unfamiliar,...

Humanoid robots are a 'strong' step closer after engineers developed synthetic muscle that can lift a thousand times its own weight. The 3D-printable synthetic soft muscle, which doesn't need an external compressor or high voltage equipment as previous attempts required, also has a strain density - expansion per gram - FIFTEEN times larger than natural muscle. And the artificial muscle can push, pull, bend and twist - as well as lift weight. Up until now no material has been capable of...

Poverty-stricken residents near the Dad's Army town are evoking the Blitz Spirit by donating tins of food to help their neighbours - because so many rely on food banks. Demand for food bank provisions on the south coast where the fictional town of Walmington-on-sea was set has seen a massive rise since last year. Food banks along the south coast have seen an 82 per cent increase in needy people coming through the doors since December. Charity Hastings Foodbank in...

The Office for National Statistics today released new zero hours contracts data. The data shows that women and young people are most affected by the contracts that do not guarantee any hours in a given week Women make up 58 per cent of those on zero hours contracts and 34 per cent of workers with no guaranteed hours are aged 16 to 24 – the largest age group However, the number of people on zero-hours contracts in the UK has fallen...

This is the moment police arrested and pinned a Parsons Green 'bucket bomb' suspect against the wall - after pretending to wait for a BUS. Onlookers said undercover counter-terrorism officers pretended to be waiting for a bus while the 21-year-old suspect walked past them in Hounslow, West London. They turned around, pounced and pinned him to the ground while an apparently confused friend he was with screamed it was "all a huge mix up". Footage shows him pinned to the...

African farmers from a remote village in northern Zambia have teamed up with the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to send a giant message to world leaders gathering in New York this week – invest more in agriculture if you want to end poverty and hunger by 2030. And to get their message the attention it deserves, the 16 farmers from Kasama, Zambia carved their case for investment into the very soil they farm, producing a giant “Field...