The Government is planning to change the UK’s asylum laws, including lengthening from five years to 20 years the period a refugee has to wait before being able to claim permanent settlement. Here the ...

More than 90,000 people were waiting for an initial decision on an asylum application in the UK at the end of June 2025 (Alamy/PA) The Government is planning to change the UK’s asylum laws, including ...

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Labour has torn up the wording of an official definition of Islamophobia amid concerns about free speech, it has emerged. Ministers formed a working group aimed at defining Islamophobia or anti-Muslim ...

A new definition of obesity could dramatically increase the number of Americans considered obese. Under the new definition, the prevalence of obesity rose from around 40% to nearly 70% among more than ...