Chain has long avoided deliveries in Great Britain but says a shift now offers ‘opportunity for profitable growth’Business live – latest updatesPrimark will offer home delivery in Great Britain for the first time as the fast-fashion retailer seeks to revive flagging sales.The com...
Labour peer tells Council of Europe inquiry failure to implement legal protections still putting journalists at riskEurope live – latest updatesMalta is vulnerable to “repeated instances of high-level corruption” unless it strengthens the rule of law and protections for journalis...
Testimony from Israeli military insiders involved in surveillance and remote killings features in documentary produced by the GuardianTestimony from 24 Israeli military insiders on the secret systems used in the war on Gaza has been revealed in a new documentary film about th...
Iran and its proxies move closer to full control of two shipping chokepoints as regional conflict widensExplained: why the fighting in Yemen matters globallyHouthi forces in Yemen are making a concerted drive to take over the country’s Red Sea coast fully, claiming control of the...
Funding cuts in 2025 left women, children, older and displaced people hard hit, with 64m fewer people receiving aidThe humanitarian aid system is crumbling as funding shrinks, pressures increase and governments not only fail to protect civilians but are increasingly responsible f...
Spiritual leaders stress diversity of views within Jewish community and warn against inaction on settler violence‘It’s a good start’: prominent Israelis welcome UK sanctionsProminent British rabbis have backed Ed Miliband’s sanctions on Israeli settlements, warning that the time ...
Ed Miliband’s intervention was ‘inevitable’ after Israeli government and security failures, say former ministers and diplomatsProminent Israelis have welcomed new UK sanctions as a necessary response to settlement expansion and spiralling violence in the occupied West Bank.The in...
Following six years of talks, Pitt Rivers Museum will return body parts collected by British colonial administrators to north-east IndiaAnthropologists and community leaders from Nagaland, a remote state in north-eastern India bordering Myanmar, have expressed joy and relief that...
India’s statistical system once commanded respect, and its data on economic and social indicators was considered rigorous – that appears to have eroded• Don’t get This is India delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThere isn’t much that we Indians agree on these days. GDP numbers ...
Foreign minister Shisir Khanal tells the Guardian the world’s biggest economies need to help Nepal, which contributes less than 0.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions Nepal is demanding $20m in climate compensation for the recent devastating floods, as a senior minister called o...
Chinese man at Trishuli hydropower project and Nepali woman in Nuwakot found 10 days into rescue operationEmergency responders have rescued a Chinese man and a Nepali woman in two separate operations as authorities continued to search for thousands of people missing 10 days after...
Officials say pair were rescued from Trishuli 3A hydropower tunnel in Nepal after being trapped at depth of 170 metresTwo people have been pulled out alive from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal nine days after deadly flash floods buried the projects in deep mud and left them trapped....
No 10 says 29 new trains to be built in Derby will support 350 local jobs, as well as nearly 6,000 across the UKNo 10 has announced the construction of a new fleet of battery-powered trains that will “bring faster, more reliable journeys to the north”.The 29 new trains, which wil...
Broadcaster, 86, had intended to end her life in Swiss clinic after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 2023Esther Rantzen has said she is no longer able to travel to Switzerland to end her life because she has become “too physically fragile”.Rantzen, who presented the T...
Many mayors welcome power to impose tourist tax but industry warns of ‘irreparable harm’ and job lossesMinisters are facing a backlash from the hospitality industry after they announced mayors in England would be given sweeping powers to levy taxes on holiday accommodation such a...
Seven people arrested following ‘altercation’ on Bromley High Street on Thursday afternoonSeven people have been arrested after four men were stabbed in south-east London, the Metropolitan police said.Officers were called to reports of “an altercation” on Bromley High Street at 2...
Bronwen James, 30, admitted offences against two girls at schools in Wiltshire and Hampshire, and found guilty of charges involving boyA former PE teacher is facing a lengthy jail sentence for grooming and sexually abusing three pupils at two schools.Bronwen James, 30, admitted o...
Trump will also speak again but assured audiences it would not be another two-hour addressTrump promise of $5,000 for US citizens after midterms decried as ‘bribery’Sign up for the US Breaking News emailThe Supreme Court has blocked a federal judge’s ruling that would’ve restored...