The fact that UK higher education is still significantly state-subsidised means, in effect, UK taxpayers continue to fund privately educated students during their university studies.

Britain's first scheduled flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda was due to depart on Tuesday, with the government warning anyone who avoided it through last-minute legal challenges would be put on a later flight despite the outcry from critics.

Judges in London have thrown out last-ditch bids by human rights groups and campaigners to stop Britain sending its first flight of asylum seekers to Rwanda on Tuesday, a plan the United Nations' refugee chief described as "catastrophic".

Britain's government overcame a legal challenge to its controversial policy to begin deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda as the High Court dismissed campaigners' attempts to win an injunction and said the first flight could leave next week.

U.S. President Joe Biden and fellow leaders of the Americas are set to pitch a plan designed to stem illegal migration and manage record migrant numbers as a regional summit roiled by diplomatic squabbling draws to a close on Friday.

Turkey's lira has lost nearly a quarter of its value this year as soaring inflation and the central bank's reluctance to raise interest rates stoke fears of another currency crisis.

A shift by Thailand's central bank to a more hawkish footing this week stunned markets and appeared to finally end policymakers' tolerance for mounting price pressures, but a range of risks are likely to keep any tightening gradual.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has marshaled $3.2 billion in corporate pledges to tackle the factors that drive some Central Americans to migrate to the United States, according to her office, an effort she will tout on Tuesday at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles.

Britain aims to send a first group of asylum seekers to Rwanda in two weeks' time as part of a policy which the government says is designed to break people-smuggling networks and stem the flow of migrants across the Channel.

China is 3D printing a dam. The Yangqu hydropower plant, a 560-foot-tall dam on the Tibetan plateau, will be completed within two years, officials say.

Retail sales in April shrank 11.1% year-on-year, after falling 3.5% in March.

Lewis Hamilton is certain Mercedes can fight for race wins as the season progresses after closing the gap to Red Bull and Ferrari in Spain.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in an interview with TED curator Chris Anderson, opened up about his hopes for the future and the reasons why he wants to buy micro blogging platform Twitter.

A study published in the journal PNAS Nexus and conducted by scientists in New Zealand, found that people who opposed vaccines had a difficult childhood. It added that these experiences instilled a distrust for authority in them.

The two prior cases occurred in males - one white and one Latino - who had received adult stem cells

Beyond social strife, the pandemic has been punishing economically, in particular for sectors like travel.

Maxwell's attorneys rested their case on Friday, putting just nine witnesses on the stand over two days

Under US law, Facebook is largely protected from liability over content posted by its users.

Long hours, low pay and stress during the coronavirus crisis have only served to put even more people off a job in the healthcare sector.

The interior ministry has promised extra patrols to implement the lockdown

Harris, who will meet Macron on Wednesday, is expected to confirm Biden's overtures

EU states are wary at the prospect of a surge of Afghan asylum-seekers trying to enter the bloc

Tens of thousands of undocumented migrants, mostly Haitians, have arrived in recent months at Mexico's southern border seeking a new life in the United States.

Indubitably, there are many economic similarities and differences between the EU and the United States.

Eden Hazard has yet to prove his worth since arriving in the Spanish capital

French President Emmanuel Macron called for the November climate conference to fully recognise the gravity of the situation

The government also announced Tuesday it would reintroduce overtime bonuses for hospital workers

While not naming countries, the WHO blasted those considering Covid-19 booster vaccinations while the most vulnerable in other nations were left exposed to the virus.

Shortly after the truce was announced, Islamic Jihad boasted it had "managed to humiliate" Israel.

Palestinian armed groups have fired at least 2,300 rockets at Israel.