Smarter people don’t just crunch numbers better—they actually see the future more clearly. Examining thousands of over-50s, Bath researchers found the brightest minds made life-expectancy forecasts ...

I jointly estimate monthly series for GDP and eight subcomponents for the US since 1950. The series match 1) quarterly national accounts equivalents, 2) exact data on monthly consumption, and 3) past ...

In positive environmental news, a record number of peatlands have been restored in a bid to help reduce carbon emissions and restore biodiversity, the Scottish Government announced in June. More than ...

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show healthy life expectancy vastly differed across the nation, with women ...

The gap in healthy life expectancy between females born in the most and least deprived areas has widened from 19.6 years in ...

In practical terms, a one standard deviation increase in IQ (about 15 points on the classic scale) led to a nearly 20% ...

A clear majority of economists polled by Reuters are concerned about the quality of official British economic data, the ...

A 92-year-old British man convicted of the 1967 rape and murder of a woman in her home has been sentenced to life in prison.

A 92-year-old British man has been convicted of murder and rape on Monday, a verdict that brought an end to a cold case that remained unsolved for 58 years.

U.S. trade deal took effect Monday, cutting U.S. tariffs on imports of British cars, including Jaguar, Range Rover, Aston ...

Britain’s statistics office will split its leadership and invest more money as part of a push to fix problems with its economic data that have hampered the Bank of England and exasperated private ...

Britain's statistics office has hired a Bank of England official to lead its push to improve its economic data after a string of failures.