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Durham University offers international students varied UG and master's progs. 32% of students come from 120 countries outside U.K., incl. India. Colleges provide catered and non-catered accom. and students can take up leadership roles in various societies. U. also helps students find jobs and build entrepreneurial skills. Cost of education…

Plus: the U.S. Justice Department says zoning restrictions on a church's soup kitchen are likely illegal, more cities pass middle housing reforms, and California gears up for another rent control fight.

Covid inquiry sees message from Boris Johnson’s ex-adviser shortly before his much-criticised trip to County Durham

Also, feminist block-printers in Massachusetts and the war’s toll on Gaza’s artists – all in your weekly dispatch

Four-day event presents works by artists including Javier Riera and Ai Weiwei at the cathedral, bridges and other spaces

Award for mould-breaking fiction goes to multi-genre work – ‘part poetry, part electricity’ – retelling the story of Durham Cathedral

Watch as Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech in Durham on Friday 3 November.

Market Place, Durham: A downpour has emptied the streets, but some rainy-day specialists – liverworts and ferns – are just fine

The former chief scientist also said he and Professor Sir Chris Whitty felt ‘strong armed’ into appearing at a press conference, but they ‘got out’.

Duke’s surprising success—and Jimbo Fisher’s struggles at Texas A&M—has ignited rumors that Elko will be in demand.

Britain’s first Faith Museum, which has recently opened in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, faces three problems. First, “religion” is an explosively controversial subject on which it’s almost impossible not to stir up anger. Yet it’s also a subject that a great many modern British people find baffling and laughably irrelevant…