Thirty years on from reaching the World Cup semi-finals with a team spearheaded by Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian football has fallen on hard times of late. While it was not ...

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Getty ImagesIt is thought the number of top grades may fall compared to last yearThere has been a fall in the percentage of people receiving top GCSE grades in ...

Persisting solar storms created the ideal conditions for aurora borealis in the northern hemisphere, displaying a spectacle that could be seen from space. The astronaut Matthew Dominick, based in ...

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Malta had made a bright start to the game at the Centenary Stadium in sweltering conditions, with Haley Bugeja hitting the post and Jackie Burns tipping over an effort ...

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Large parts of the world got a rare glimpse of the Northern Lights on Friday night, after one of the strongest geomagnetic storms to hit Earth for years.These events ...

Events this week show that Brexit will keep rearing its head, writes economics editor John Campbell. Source link