As people prepare to return to work after the New Year, rail campaigners warn that commuters face inflation-busting fare increases and service cuts.

Churches joined a recent demonstration in Rio de Janeiro's Santa Teresa neighbourhood, protesting neglect of a transport system lifeline for residents.

In a new year message, Green Party Leader Caroline Lucas has said that “politics does not have to be a straight choice between power and principles”.

The fundraising campaign to procure money for a fleet of London buses that will tell people there is probably no God and they should get on with being happy has proved an instant hit, raising over five times its target in the first day.