Waste mountain branded ‘utterly appalling’ by PM grew 40 feet high within months
A mountain of waste branded “utterly appalling” by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer grew so quickly that most of it was in place before...
Pro-Palestine activists accused of harassing Labour MP over Israel-Hamas war have convictions thrown out
Two pro-Palestinian activists found guilty of harassing a government minister have had their convictions overturned. Ayeshah Behit, 32, and Hiba Ahmed, 26, were in...
Sir Keir Starmer refuses to rule out extending freeze on income tax thresholds
Sir Keir Starmer has refused to rule out extending the freeze on income tax thresholds in next week’s budget. The prime minister said he...
Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sells for £180m at auction, a record for modern art
A painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust has become the most expensive piece of modern art and...
Man arrested in Florida over alleged murder and kidnap of British woman
A man has been arrested over the alleged murder of a missing British woman in Florida, investigators in the US have said. The unnamed...
Harry Dunn’s mother Charlotte Charles honoured for road safety campaigning
The mother of a teenage motorcyclist killed by a US citizen in 2019 has been honoured for her campaigning efforts on road safety following...
‘Deeply ashamed’ former US treasury secretary Larry Summers quits public life over links to Jeffrey Epstein
Former US treasury secretary Larry Summers has said he is stepping back from public life as emails showed he continued to communicate with Jeffrey...
X, Spotify and ChatGPT among those hit by major outage
Social media site X, music streaming service Spotify and AI chatbot ChatGPT were among several platforms down for thousands of users. Facebook, AWS (Amazon...
ESA’s Euclid Telescope Charts Over a Million Galaxies in Landmark First Data
ESA’s Euclid space telescope has captured about 1.2 million galaxies in its first year, providing one of the most detailed wide-field surveys of the...
James Webb Space Telescope May Have Spotted the Universe’s First Stars, Astronomers Say
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected a distant, metal-poor galaxy whose unusually massive, ultraviolet-bright stars match the expected signatures of Population...
Russian spy ship on edge of UK waters, warns defence secretary
A Russian spy ship is currently on the edge of UK waters, the defence secretary has announced. John Healey said it was the second...
South Korea: All 267 passengers and crew rescued from ferry that ran aground, says coastguard
More than 250 passengers on board a ferry that ran aground off the South Korean coast have been rescued, according to the coastguard. It...
A Bond-villain ship prowling our waters: Why the Yantar alarms the West
The Yantar may look scruffy and unthreatening but below the surface it’s the kind of ship a Bond villain would be proud of. In...
‘Patchwork of dust and misery’: At the Yellow Line dividing Gaza – where all that remains are skeletons of buildings
In front of me, there is a building that has collapsed upon itself, six floors piled upon each other. A wild dog is walking...
MP Materials stock surges on Pentagon-backed deal to develop rare earth refinery in Saudi Arabia
MP Materials surged Wednesday on a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense and the Saudi Arabian Mining Company, Maaden, to develop a rare...
Deadline day for Andrew to respond to Epstein inquiry – but it’s hard to imagine why he’d talk
They’ve said they are offering him an opportunity to tell them everything, once and for all. But as we hit the two-week deadline set...
Robert Best death: Women in court after man’s body found in Inverclyde field
Two women have appeared in court charged with attempting to defeat the ends of justice after a man was found dead in a field...
Russia accuses British government of being ‘provocative’ after spy ship nears UK
Russia has accused the British government of “provocative statements” and an “escalation of militaristic hysteria” after the defence secretary warned a Kremlin spy ship...
Inflation slows to 3.6%, but food costs shoot upwards
The rate of inflation has eased to 3.6%, according to official figures that make for better reading for the economy and chancellor ahead of...
Europe has rare earths but, for now, it’s at China’s mercy like everyone else
Workers transport soil containing rare earth elements for export at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China. China Stringer Network | Reuters Like the...