Force says ‘inquiries ongoing’ into visit to royal estate in Scotland, when Ghislaine Maxwell was also presentPolice Scotland has received “information” and has “active inquiries ongoing” regarding time spent by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at...
Endorsement not always full-throated but party backing marks major turn after bitter split over nominationFacing a barrage of extreme attacks from Donald Trump and his allies, the Democratic establishment is finally rallying around progressive Abdul El-Sayed, the party’s candidat...
It’s been a particularly brutal cycle for attack ads, but voters are responding with humanity. Plus: on the campaign trail with a Democrat in KansasThis was originally published in the Stakes 2026, a newsletter about the midterm elections. Sign up to get it in your inboxThere’s a...
Newspaper whose former editor won Nobel peace prize says pressure from Russian authorities has forced it to shutThe Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta announced on Friday that it was closing, citing pressure from authorities who recently searched the home of its senior e...
Oxygen, food and water supplies running low and massacres taking place, says Nabil ShamsanThe Houthis are trying to send the city of Taiz back to the stone age, the city’s governor said in a briefing designed to urge the international community to do more to lift the month-long s...
Prime minister in Glasgow to meet with Scottish and Welsh leaders to talk about ‘next stage of devolution’Good morning. Andy Burnham is in Glasgow today for a meeting with the leaders from Scotland and Wales and he says he wants to use it to talk about “the next stage of devoluti...
Sluggish growth of 0.5% in October comes as higher borrowing costs put break on marketUK house prices grew by an annual rate of just 0.5% in October, the slowest pace in more than two years, as higher mortgage rates put off potential buyers.The average price for a property in the...
The full investigation is likely to take at least weeks to concludeSpain continues investigating Wednesday’s deadly train crash in Toledo province, which killed 69 people, and left many more injured.An initial interim report by the independent body investigating the crash confirm...
Prime minister says room for manoeuvre was limited by geopolitical crises and Labour’s 2024 manifestoAndy Burnham has admitted his first budget as prime minister was not as radical as he would have liked because of the economic uncertainty facing the country.He said he would have...
Third-quarter underlying replacement cost profit rises to $8.46bn, up from $2.2bn a year agoBP has posted a jump in its quarterly profits as the war in the Middle East drove up oil and gas prices and led to “significantly higher” trading.The energy company said on Friday th...
Voters who backed the US president in the last election are saying they can’t vote for him today: ‘This is an abomination’Outside the Ukrainian educational and cultural center in a quiet Pennsylvania suburb of Jenkintown, on the outskirts of Philadelphia, a banner expressed unqua...
Home secretary’s colleagues fear homelessness will rise as a result of changes to the asylum systemShabana Mahmood has infuriated ministerial colleagues by failing to share what they see as crucial information about the impact of her migration changes.Sources say the home secreta...
Up to 1.4 million people could benefit from change to trading allowance announced in budget, with some saving hundreds in taxThe amount Britons can earn from a side hustle without paying tax will rise to £3,000 next year in a fillip for those who make extra cash from hobbies or r...
In today’s newsletter: Benjamin Netanyahu has been left without a majority, now it is up to the coalition to find out whether the desire for change will prove to be a defining political momentGood morning. It was described by many Israelis as the most consequential election in th...
Next month’s poll no longer the contest it was, as Pedro Sánchez finds himself forced to defend government’s safety recordOne of the most dependable cliches of contemporary Spanish politics is that it never pays to bet against Pedro Sánchez. Time and time again – as leader of the...
Cross-party committee says ‘moonshot’ vow to end obesity epidemic in a decade will fail without personal leadership from PMThe UK government’s promise to reverse rising obesity rates in the next decade is “doomed to fail” without a major rethink and a new plan led directly by the...
Conservative-run Hillingdon aims to save £100,000 but local people fear dog poo will ‘be dumped everywhere’People in a west London borough fear it will become covered in dog poo after their cash-strapped council decided to remove 700 dog-waste bins to save money.“People are worri...
Ryan Dinnage – who accompanied Reform UK leader on walkabouts before local elections – was later jailed, raising questions about vetting failureOne of Nigel Farage’s security team who accompanied him on the local election campaign trail this year was facing a rape charge and was ...