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US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023 Published 12:01 AM EDT, Thu April 25, 2024 The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and a new report shows that another drop in births in 2023 brought the rate down to the lowest it’s been i...

Labour pledges to renationalise most rail services within five years 34 minutes ago Labour has promised to renationalise nearly all passenger rail services within five years if it wins the next election. It says a new public body would inherit existing contracts when they expire, taking on responsi...

Richard Beeching Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (21 April 1913 – 23 March 1985), commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short but very notable time was chairman of British Railways. He became a household name in Britain in the early 1960s for his report The Reshapin...