Economists, senior government officials and ordinary consumers are allshowing greater confidence in the outlook for the economy.Yet three months after signs of hope emerged, the evidence ofimprovement still exists only in the form of glimmers. A slew of recenteconomic data

The disappearance of an Air France jet en route from Rio de Janeiroto Paris on Sunday evening left seasoned crash investigators with amystery to plumb and very little data to work with.The Airbus 330-200, carrying 228 passengers and crew members,

There was a time when South Korea thoughtrapprochement with the North could result in the kind of peacefulreunification seen in Germany. With Pyongyang now flexing its atomicmuscles, peace on the peninsula looks as far away as ever.He looks old and

A 23-year-old man upset about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistanopened fire from his truck at two soldiers standing outside a militaryrecruiting station here in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Monday morning, killing one private andwounding another, said the police. The

A lawyer for Norm Coleman, the Republican who is fighting a recount battle with Al Franken, a Democrat, for a Senate seat, faced sharply skeptical questioning onMonday from justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court in a crucialhearing on the case.

Lactating mothers who have developed infection leading to pain, swelling, and redness in the breast can now turn to frozen cabbage leaves for rescue.

The number of swine flu cases in the United States topped 10,000 on Tuesday and the virus spread to all 50 states.

Former internationals Rohan Gavaskar, Deep Dasgupta and Hemang Badani are among 101 cricketers who have severed their links with the rebel ICL.

Australia announced setting up of a new Task Force headed by the NSA to deal with violence against Indian students in the country.

Many may not agree, but a survey has revealed that most couples enjoy their best sex after four years of togetherness.

Telegraph view: Good music brings harmony to the body.

The ongoing MPs' expenses saga has provided some exquisitely clear lessons for schools and with its shocking revelations has served to make the already challenging job of being a head teacher just that little bit harder.

A mother denied using a false address to try to get her son into a popular state school.

Telegraph View: University reform should be an urgent policy priority for the Tory party.

Sending your child away to study? Here is some advice for parents.

When Time editors fused Barack Obama's head on the famous parade photo of Franklin Delano Roosevelt for a November 2008 cover, comparisons between 1932 and the present day were already a shopworn cliche. If you were a working journalist in

When Congress votes on the Employee Free Choice Act, it will decide not only whether workers will be able to organize unions more easily and whether America will build a stronger economy based on shared prosperity. It will also decide

Without a bailout, newspapers will lay off staff, fewer journalists will report important stories, there will be no Fourth-Estate check on state and corporate power, and the country will suffer. So goes the pro-democracy case for government and/or altruistic investors

On April 15, large, angry and somewhat wacky crowds of Republican-backed and Fox News-supported "tea party" protesters joined the usual groups of more sedate and earnest peace activists to demonstrate against President Barack Obama's proposed 2010 budget Whether they were

Testifying before the Senate labor and health committee hearing in March, economist Anne Layne-Farrar of the corporate consulting firm LECG warned about the horrendous impact of the Employee Free Choice Act. Its potential to increase union membership from between five