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Donald Trump will propose arming school staff and raising the minimum age to purchase certain firearms to 21 in a school safety proposal the administration will release on Sunday, a White House spokesman said. The proposal on...

Despite massive global and domestic pushback, US President Donald Trump has imposed broad tariffs on steel and aluminum. Last-minute modifications can’t cloak the president’s dangerous protectionist stance. Just days after announcing his plan to impose tariffs...

When Walt Disney offered to adapt the Tale of Peter Rabbit for film in 1936, Beatrix Potter did not hesitate: the answer was no. During her lifetime, the author exercised minute control over the reams of merchandise spun...

Hedy Lamarr, the star MGM called “the most beautiful woman in the world”, had two of the worst-kept secrets in Hollywood. One of them, she could never escape until long after her career was over. The...

Nick Logan: Bryan Ferry, 19 January 1974 In November 1973 – shortly after I’d moved up from deputy to editor – there was a printing strike. In the previous couple of years, NME had been diligently...

School children around the world are being exposed on a daily basis to cigarette advertising and promotions by a tobacco industry that needs to recruit the young to maintain its vast profits. A major investigation in more...

Donald Trump has accepted an invitation from the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, to hold an unprecedented summit meeting to discuss the future of the embattled regime’s nuclear and missile programme. In a stunning development following months...

Simple, nuanced and just the tiniest bit nerdy. There’s only one way to wear your hair this season – and it doesn’t involve a blow-dry • Read more from the spring/summer 2018 edition of The Fashion, our biannual...

Is Karl Lagerfeld entering his woodcutter period? That the 84-year old designer has recently grown a rugged, some would say Jeremy Corbynesque beard might suggest as much. So, too, would the set for his catwalk show in Paris:...

A new laser-based system could allow vehicles to ‘see’ obstacles before they come into view, scientists say Whether it’s a child running after a ball, a herd of cows or a broken-down car, unexpected obstacles can...