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Queen's Live Aid performance has become the stuff of legend – we look back at how the iconic set really happened

Reform UK would use savings from not lifting the two-child cap to fund a rescue package for pubs

Most people don’t fail because they lack talent. They fail because they understand life too late. Chanakya understood this centuries ago. He wasn’t teaching morality for applause or spirituality for comfort. He was teaching survival, clarity, and power in a world that rarely plays fair. His guidance was not about…

Children’s doctors, teachers, health visitors and anti-poverty charities have called on MPs to vote in support of ending the policy

A further 20,000 will only see limited gains, official assessment confirms

Letters: Readers respond to deepening poverty in the UK and ways to address it

At its best, artificial intelligence can assist people in analyzing data, automating tasks and developing solutions to big problems: fighting cancer, hunger, poverty and climate change. At its worst, AI can assist people in exploiting other humans, damaging the environment, taking away jobs and eventually making ourselves lazy and less…

Universal credit to rise faster than inflation, benefit hurdles eased, extra help for children and young people … I bet you had no idea, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Incomes and education attainment among Texans have increased, while poverty has declined.

We need an honest reckoning with other factors that threaten young people’s wellbeing, from poverty to academic stress, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

US President Donald Trump warned that the U.S. would cease all support for Iraq if ex-prime minister Nouri al-Maliki returns to power. Trump cited Maliki's previous tenure, which he claims led to poverty and chaos, as a reason for this stance. This intervention follows similar concerns raised by Secretary of…