Centre for Economic and Business Research says cost of childcare rose by £5,000 in one year.
EXCLUSIVE: At least 40 Rohingya Muslims killed in Du Char Yar Tan village.
European Parliament votes through prostitution report highlighting 'fundamental injustice' of sex industry.
Mother describes how 15-year-old Tallulah Wilson became obsessed with 'toxic' self-harm sites before suicide
Activists claim more dolphins were killed in secret in Taiji, Japan.
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Woman, 20, 'punished' for love affair with man of different caste in West Bengal.
A Canadian military ship seized more than 280 kilograms of heroin on Friday (January 17) during routine patrols in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Tanzania.
Former HSBC banker is married to Miss Singapore 2003, but doesn't much like other locals
Ethnic conflict in Central African Republic pushes country to verge of genocide.
William Daniell's book is being sold at Dominic Winter auctions in Cirencester.
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Former North Wales Police superintendent questioned over Operation Pallial children's homes investigation.
Quenelle creator taken into custody over allegation he fired rubber bullet at bailiff.
Change made to copies on sale in Malaysia to avoid offending Muslims.
As world leaders meet to discuss the future of Syria, the prospects of success are low.
Diocese of Bath and Wells issues guidance to 'navigate landscape of social media' with offending God or mum.
Madoff also has stage 4 kidney disease and is back in prison
Reuters photographer Gleb Garanich captured riot policemen preparing and throwing a Molotov cocktail during clashes with pro-European protesters in Kiev.
Indian workers are the happiest lot in Asia.
Spiders in Peru caught on film building false arachnids out of dead insects to trick predators.
Study claims Asia's pollution from US-China trade manufacturing is effecting weather in areas such as LA.
Charges of trafficking obscene publications dropped in Uganda gay sex case
Ragnarok festival celebrates destruction of the nine worlds of the cosmos.
World leaders meet in Switzerland to find a solution to three-year conflict in Syria.
Eight worst train operators on Britain's railways.
London Branch of Russian Pay-By-The-Minute Café Opens
Concrete figure towering over Brazilian city in need to repairs after electrical storm.
ScotCen Social Research shows personal economic factors matter most to voters