Innovation

Just past the mid-point in the spring season and it has been a rollercoaster ride of weather patterns. It was the driest March in Northern Ireland since 2012, provisionally the …

At the age of 24, Nafisa Salahu was in danger of becoming just another statistic in Nigeria, where a woman dies giving birth every seven minutes, on average. Going into …

A plan by a school to ban skirts in a bid to make uniform more gender-neutral has been paused after the head teacher received "discriminatory and bigoted" feedback. On Monday, …

A key road which has been closed for four days after a water main burst has now reopened, a water company has said. Drivers reported "chaos" in Gloucester after the …

The world's rainforests are often referred to as the "lungs of the earth". They store billions of tonnes of carbon and in doing so help to reduce the impacts of …

Hoarding disorder has become "a national emergency in America", an MP has said, "so we need to look at it here." Paulette Hamilton, Labour MP for Birmingham Erdington, spent years …

A series of "grass mazes" are set to be created in a town in a bid to create habitat for insects and other wildlife. Bridgwater in Somerset is set to …

A cycling charity has said it is "gutted" by the closure of a bike store, intended to reduce bicycle thefts in Worcester city centre. Bike Worcester said the free facility …

A former Hibernian player is suing the Scottish Premiership club over injuries suffered in a training game involving an ex-manager. Lawyers for Jake Doyle-Hayes said the midfielder's career had been …

The Stormont Executive will need to raise money from water charges or other sources if it wants to improve the performance of NI Water, an independent watchdog has concluded. The …