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Cornell University has received a pledge of $371.5 million from alumnus and software entrepreneur David Duffield, marking the largest single gift in the institution’s history. Combined with…

British particle physicist Mark Thomson is director-general of CERN.Credit: CERNLast month, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory, CERN, announced that it had secured private donations worth an unprecedented €860…

The rate of women dying during or soon after pregnancy in the UK has increased by 20% over the last decade, despite the Conservatives having pledged…

Long-awaited plans for better railways across the north of England have been given government backing with an undertaking to “reverse years of chronic underinvestment” by spending…

Gambling companies have spent nearly £5m to advertise on the London transport network since Sadiq Khan pledged to stop them from doing so, amid a prolonged…

Reeves says she has to face world ‘as it is’ as she refuses to say she’ll stick to manifesto pledges on taxReeves is now taking questions.Beth…

Ministers are considering dropping one of their central green pledges in an effort to keep energy bills down, sources have told the Guardian.Government insiders say Keir…

The Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands.The party’s leader,…

China has revealed its goal for slashing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, providing a glimpse into how global emissions might change over the next decade. In a…

Rachel Reeves has confirmed ahead of her speech to the Labour party conference that she no longer stands by a pledge last year not to raise…