Stoke Newington Muslim community centre able to apply for anti-terror security funding after Home Office U-turn.

A Muslim community centre was denied security funding by the Home Office despite being told it is vulnerable to a terrorist attack.

Leading university courses are providing less than six hours a week face-to-face teaching – despite charging fees of £9,250 per year.

Step-free access was unavailable at London Underground stations for a combined 306 days last year due to faulty lifts.

Residents living next to the new EastEnders set vented their fury yesterday after learning they will have to endure five more years of construction chaos.

As Andy Murray looks set to bow out from competitive tennis, we take to the streets to ask you if he is our greatest-ever sportsman.

Vital service for Edinburgh pensioners faces bleak future.

Wrangle over legal ownership of museum exhibit.

They are the signs of a borough that has long been engulfed by gentrification. Now fixie bikes that block doorways and illegible hip menus are being targeted by anti-ageism campaigners who claim Hackney has become inaccessible to pensioners.

Who are Cinque Stelle, where did they come from, and what comes next?

The World Weekly spoke to experts across the US about how to tackle the opioid epidemic: the worst drug crisis in American history.

A restaurant owner accused “greedy” Deliveroo of “slowly killing” small restaurants, after he closed a popular burger outlet in Stoke Newington last week.

Michael Ignatieff knows a thing or two about authoritarianism. As President and Rector of the Central European University in Budapest, Ignatieff has found himself on the frontline of the fight for academic and intellectual freedom in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary. In an interview, Ignatieff reflected on what has caused the rising tide of authoritarianism, where academics have gone wrong, and what they must do to start fighting back.

Ever had a helping of jerk chicken and been a bit underwhelmed? Andi Oliver has. Thankfully the Great British Menu judge and Stoke Newington resident has opened up a new Caribbean restaurant to make sure that never happens again.

In the western Balkans, big power games are pulling an unstable region between Russia and the West.

Rocked by sexual harassment allegations, Uber’s co-founder Travis Kalanick is taking a leave of absence. The scandal is just the tip of the iceberg in Silicon Valley.

South Sudan is the world’s youngest country. After nearly 99% of eligible voters opted to secede from Sudan in 2011, people like William Lochi set about putting in place the building blocks that he and many others hoped would lead to South Sudan becoming a successful democracy. Progress has been fitful thus far, marred by on-off civil conflict and political upheaval. However Lochi, the Deputy-Secretary General of the South Sudanese government, remains optimistic that South Sudan’s future is bright. In Florence to undertake a Young Policy Leader fellowship at the School of Transnational Governance, Lochi hopes to return to Juba with a fresh perspective on governing and policymaking in his fledgling home country.

An interview with Yale's Samuel Moyn, author of a recently-published book entitled ‘Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World’. Moyn argues that the international human rights movement have been subject to a neoliberal dogma; by not spending enough time and energy seeking to address inequality and the politics of fairness, he believes, politicians and NGOs have missed a trick.

Italy's election has left its old political establishment on the outside looking in.

As dignitaries gathered in Belfast last week to commemorate twenty years since the Good Friday agreement was signed, ending over three decades of bloody sectarian conflict on the island of Ireland, a Brexit-shaped shadow loomed large. According to Professor Brigid Laffan, Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, London’s apparent reluctance to take the Irish problem seriously could lead to the unravelling of Good Friday and the reappearance of violence on the border.