THE popularity of Christmas jumpers was illustrated last year in reports from the Lidl supermarket chain that it had sold one every two seconds. Its designs included Christmas trees, snowflakes, candy ...

UNDER the current emissions path, Brazil, which is hosting COP30, will face a 33.1 per cent GDP growth-hit from climate change by 2100, a new study suggests. The report Brazil Burning: The economic ...

Before COP30 opens in Brazil, Joe Ware learns about the Anglican Episcopal Church’s relationship with the region ...

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IN THE wake of reports of summary executions, mass killings, rapes, and abductions in their country, the Bishops of the Episcopal Church of Sudan have issued a statement condemning the other countries ...

MORE than half of UK teenagers feel that the build up to Christmas is overwhelming and find the festive season “too much”, according to a new poll released last Tuesday by the Children’s Society. Two ...

SIMONE WEIL, the French philosopher and mystic, lived almost her whole life in wartime. As a child during the First World War, she gave up her pocket money to sponsor a soldier at the front. She ...

Have a go at our next caption competition (above). Send entries by email only to [email protected] by 9 a.m., Monday 17 November. We invite readers’ ideas for photos: please provide ...

“WE ARE top of the league.” So rang out the chants at Middlesbrough FC’s Riverside Stadium recently after a start to the new season so good that it surprised even diehard fans. New data published by ...

So begins one of St John Henry Newman’s most famous and popular hymns. It was sung in Italian in St Peter’s Square on All Saints’ Day, when Pope Leo XIV declared Newman a Doctor of the Universal ...

MY WORLD was about to change, and, if not scared, I was certainly queasy when I encountered the Zouche chapel, in York Minster, for the first time. I was 18, looking at universities, and was in York ...