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The mother was washing up her eighth-floor apartment in the northern region of La Guaira in Venezuela when the earthquakes hit and completely destroyed the building

A once-struggling Braintree secondary school has been praised by Ofsted for its “rapid and substantial improvement” following a remarkable turnaround.

Braintree district families are struggling to adapt to a new waste collection scheme which they say is leaving them with overflowing bins between collections.

There were several more streets across Essex that won in the People's Postcode Lottery last month.

There were several more streets across Essex that won in the People's Postcode Lottery last month.

Nadiem Makarim vows to appeal sentence given he was found not to have profited from $600 million laptops-for-schools program

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Inside Climate News: A new state law limits Florida communities' aims to offset greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the global climate and intensifying disasters such as hurricanes. Specifically, HB 1217 prohibits local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals. At least 10 cities and counties have implemented such policies, including Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Orlando and Leon County, where Tallahassee, the state capital, is located. But the new law will not necessarily upend these policies, said Bradley Marshall, senior attorney at Earthjustice, an advocacy group. "It's certainly meant to scare municipalities and local governments from trying to do things to further net-zero policies," he said. "Now, its exact impact and what it exactly prohibits is probably up for some debate. Things that are adjacent to it -- emissions reductions and even climate change reduction policies -- on their face will not run afoul at all of a ban on adopting a net zero policy." The measure requires local governments to submit an affidavit annually to the state Department of Revenue verifying compliance. Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signed the measure on April 22, Earth Day, and the law will take effect July 1. It states that "net zero policies, carbon taxes and assessments, and emission trading programs are detrimental to this state's energy security and economic interests and inconsistent with the energy policy and the environmental policy of this state." [...] HB 1217 also prevents local governments from purchasing items such as vehicles or appliances based on the fuels they use or production of the items. Local governments may not participate in carbon-trading programs or use public funds to support other organizations with net-zero policies. Cities and counties also may not charge a tax or fee tied with carbon emissions. "This bill is definitely part of a larger coordinated push by the political enablers of the fossil fuel industry to obstruct any tools -- legal or legislative tools -- to hold the industry accountable for its contributions to climate change," said Laura Peterson, senior analyst at the Union for Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group. "Florida is really on the front lines. So I imagine the governor is taking this step because he sees what's coming down the pike. It's not getting better. So I can only assume that this is an effort to satisfy some of the pressures that he's getting from donors and from his party to protect the industry. And he's doing it at the expense of his constituents."

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A much-loved fox has died after 10 years at Hopefield Animal Sanctuary.

A much-loved fox has died after 10 years at Hopefield Animal Sanctuary.

OLIVER SALT IN NEW JERSEY: If Messi is the current king on the throne, then France's captain fantastic, the focal point of their frightening attack, is the heir apparent after climbing right behind him.

One is the queen of children's fiction and the other is - well, the Queen.

Part of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow was sealed off after the person presented at the Acute Receiving Unit at around 6am on Tuesday.

I hear that what's been going on backstage at Sir Cameron Mackintosh's hit revival is even more dramatic than this timeless tale...

In a move branded 'ideological nonsense', Whitehall's economics department scrapped its mathematical reasoning exam after finding it was having an 'adverse impact'.

The wild animal, five, emerged from the sea in Tasmania last week for its annual return to land to catch up on rest and moulting.

New legislation published will seek to restrict abuse of the 'right to family and private life' under the European Convention on Human Rights.

Officers were called to a property at Seven Acre Close in St Leonards-on-Sea in Hastings shortly after 4.30am on Tuesday.

Health Secretary James Murray championed the deal as 'good for taxpayers' and stressed the bill is 'less than the cost of one more week's worth of strikes'.

303,000 cores that power internal networks headed out the door

Passersby were left wondering if this was a Banksy artwork being erected in the early hours of this morning. The secret project was in fact a giant cardboard cut-out of the late Queen Elizabeth.