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Alien life may be thriving in a warm, underground ocean on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, according to new research. Scientists say tidal forces could have kept the subterranean sea liquid for billions of years - enough time for organisms to have developed. The mysterious world has a very fragmented and porous rocky interior, ideal conditions for flowing water with the friction creating 10 gigawatts of heat. This amount of energy would light and heat more than 7 million homes -...

This clip of one of the Conservative Party’s biggest bankrollers, former Tory Party Treasurer Lord Ashcroft being chased by intrepid Panorama reporter Richard Bilton across the Conservative Party conference floor until he hides in a toilet is going viral. While ordinary Brits pay their full taxes and government peers were under pressure to pay their proper share of taxes, leaked documents show that between 2000 and 2010, Lord Ashcroft received payments of £150 million from a Bermuda offshore trust. The...

Bursting with colour in the night, these aren't fireworks but aurora lighting up the northern skies. These amazing pictures of the northern lights were taken by astrophotographer Juan Carlos Casado in Greenland, Iceland and Finland. He said: "Auroras are one of the most spectacular natural phenomena that can be seen. Bursting with colour in the night, these aren't fireworks but aurora lighting up the northern skies. "They are global spectacles, in the sense that they can cover the whole visible...

Fears of Britain's exit from the EU is introducing a worrying investment setback as companies and investors keep stalling on investment plans so as not to be caught up in the uncertainty that continues to loom over the economy since the referendum, studies have revealed. Firms, manufacturers, and both domestic and international investors are either pulling back or pressing the pause button on already laid out investment plans. Some businesses are holding back on planning at all until the uncertainties...

Police made only 25 arrests as protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks marched through London in an anti-capitalist Bonfire Night demonstration on Sunday evening. Demonstrators chanted slogans and let off fireworks around Trafalgar Square and Downing Street, but otherwise there was little trouble, due to a huge police operation. See image gallery (below) Hundreds of people take part in the Million Mask March in central London, November 5 2017. The mask from the 2005 film V for Vendetta has become a...

Prominent Brexiteer John Redwood advised investors to avoid Britain this weekend as the country's economy "hits the brakes". Before the vote Redwood advised that the "economic gains of leaving the EU will be considerable". But as the economy hits stormy waters this weekend he advised investors to look elsewhere - namely the European Central Bank in an article he penned titled "Look further afield as the UK hits the brakes." Oh the irony @johnredwood said #Brexit great for UK now advises...

Oxford University is known for being one the best in the world; it’s up there with the elite schools like Harvard, Stanford and Imperial College London. If you’re at Oxford, you know that you’re the best of the best. You also know that you’re going to spend a lot more of your time on UK Essays rather than going out partying! But what are the most popular subjects at Oxford? Philosophy, Politics and Economics One degree is usually enough for...

John McDonnell says Labour would end the era of government turning a blind eye to the scandal of tax avoidance if they were in government. In a statement following the leak of financial documents the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer says the Tories have "refused to act" to stem the flow of taxable money moving offshore. The so-called Paradise Papers have implicated several high-profile people, including royalty, revealing the secrets of the world elite's hidden wealth. The 13.4m files expose the global environments...

The Queen has been implicated in the latest data leak of financial documents being dubbed the "Paradise Papers". The leak shows how the powerful and ultra-wealthy secretly invest vast amounts of cash in offshore tax havens, and were revealed as part of a 100-strong media investigation which has been exposed today. According to the BBC the Paradise Papers show that about £10m ($13m) of the Queen's private money was invested offshore. It was put into funds in British Overseas Territories the Cayman...