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Helmeted teams hurled snowballs at each other in a fierce showdown in northern Japan – and organisers want to see it at the ...

Getting rid of roomy business-class and first-class seats in planes could more than halve the aviation industry’s emissions, researchers have claimed. If planes only had economy seating, this could ...

Copy and paste this HTML code into your webpage to embed. GOING through the post at First News HQ is always a fun job, but being on post duty in the lead up to Christmas is always extra special, as ...

The chief of the school watchdog Ofsted wants to see the school holidays moved to different times of the year. Sir Martyn Oliver says the current timings are “bizarre” and mean that pupils are ...

Pupils could get to taste new food at school breaktimes as part of a national campaign to broaden children’s diets. Try Something New Day launched on Tuesday (24 February), organised by the charity ...