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Durham University offers international students varied UG and master's progs. 32% of students come from 120 countries outside U.K., incl. India. Colleges provide catered and non-catered accom. and students can take up leadership roles in various societies. U. also helps students find jobs and build entrepreneurial skills. Cost of education…

Plus: the U.S. Justice Department says zoning restrictions on a church's soup kitchen are likely illegal, more cities pass middle housing reforms, and California gears up for another rent control fight.

Watch as Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech in Durham on Friday 3 November.

Market Place, Durham: A downpour has emptied the streets, but some rainy-day specialists – liverworts and ferns – are just fine

The former chief scientist also said he and Professor Sir Chris Whitty felt ‘strong armed’ into appearing at a press conference, but they ‘got out’.

Duke’s surprising success—and Jimbo Fisher’s struggles at Texas A&M—has ignited rumors that Elko will be in demand.

Britain’s first Faith Museum, which has recently opened in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, faces three problems. First, “religion” is an explosively controversial subject on which it’s almost impossible not to stir up anger. Yet it’s also a subject that a great many modern British people find baffling and laughably irrelevant…

Nose’s Point, Durham coast: It’s not just the sunflowers – planted to help seed-eating birds during the ‘hungry gap’ – that makes today feel more like Provence

The nonpartisan primary in Durham, North Carolina, was on Oct. 10, 2023. Candidates competed to advance to the nonpartisan general scheduled for Nov. 7. The filing deadline to run was on July 21.