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Each country measures economic growth by its gross domestic product or GDP. Negative or positive GDP indicates whether the economy is contracting or expanding. When you combine the total economic ...

NICOLA STURGEON yesterday spoke of her horror at the prospect of the Tories coming second in next week’s election. The SNP chief is all but ­guaranteed to lead her party ...

For those business people who believe both in remaining in the EU and in free markets, these are difficult times. In recent weeks, the government has made two major, possibly ...

A Labour MP has gone on trial accused of assaulting a Yes campaigner at a polling station on the day of the Scottish independence referendum. Marie Rimmer, 69, denies kicking ...

Former first minister Alex Salmond hit out at David Cameron last night after he claimed the new Forth road bridge contained “zero” Scottish steel. The Gordon MP insisted there was ...

Fast-food workers from Birmingham, Alabama, are suing their state legislature after it passed a law that put a stop to their expected pay raise. Nine months ago, the workers scored ...

Journalist Julia Ioffe has experienced this kind of harassment before: in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. In the 24 hours since her profile of Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, appeared in GQ magazine, ...

The two men hired by Donald Trump and Ted Cruz to spearhead their presidential campaigns in California are, for the moment, rivals in what could be the most important primary ...

Donald Trump ran into a buzzsaw of angry protests at his inaugural rally in California, as a large crowd enraged by his stance on immigration clashed with his supporters outside ...

“Donald Trump is here – still,” observed a somewhat incredulous Barack Obamain 2015, when the butt of his jokes returned for more punishment at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner. ...