Welcome back to the Money blog. We've kicked off the week by exploring what it's like to be a teacher - and it's not all lovely long holidays. Elsewhere, a quarter of employers say they're planning to ...

Thule is less known than other places in classical mythology like Atlantis. But Thule actually existed. The prickly question is, where was it?

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological ...

Bird flu cases are still rising in the U.S. as the virus continues to devastate poultry farms. More than 145 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United ...

AS kids are stabbed at school and machete brawls take place in the streets, our shocking interactive map lays bare the true extent of Britain’s knife crime crisis, and reveals just where in ...

In the United Kingdom, benchmark interest rate is set by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The Bank of England official interest rate is the repo rate. This repo rate applies to open market ...

On 5 February 1811, George, Prince of Wales, was declared Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The new Prince Regent had been waiting for this moment for a very long time. Over ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere ... the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern ...

Britain’s oldest ... paddle sport as a 14-year-old boy in 1947 and is still going strong 78 years on. The energetic pensioner plays around 14 games a week at Great Wyrley Table Tennis Club ...

Among the dead were the Deputy Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the MP for North Down. The final death toll from the great storm in Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium was over 500, the ...

Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great American mystery ... analysed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the ...

The coins are thousands of years old, the Netherlands' Cultural Heritage ... with the only other comparable discovery having been made in Great Britain. Two metal detectorists made the discovery ...