Judges hail Sofia Demetriades’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as full of insights, poetry and maturityA teenage violinist has won the BBC Young Musician competition 2026, in the first all-female final in the competition’s 48-year history.The judges, Joanna MacGrego...
British prime minister has now agreed to structured dialogue on reparatory justice but issue remains off formal Chogm agendaBritish officials initially insisted that discussions of reparations for slavery should not be on the agenda of the Commonwealth leaders’ summit in Antigua ...
Democratic senator was at his son’s hockey game when he felt a numbness in his arm and was in Johns Hopkins Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke.Murphy, 53, started feeling numbness in his arm while attending a his son’s hockey game on...
MPs say Shabana Mahmood’s new rules risk staff shortages in health and social care and second Windrush scandalShabana Mahmood will announce sweeping new rules on Monday on how long legal migrants must wait for permanent settlement in the UK, with most likely to wait a decade and ...
US artist known as Model 500 and one half of the duo Cybotron had a huge influence on dance music worldwideJuan Atkins, one of the pioneers of Detroit techno and a huge influence on dance music more widely, has died aged 64.His agency, Greensmith Artists, confirmed the news to th...
Voting is particularly high in states with tight Senate races that could determine which party controls the chamberUS citizens are casting ballots in record numbers ahead of the midterm elections on Tuesday, another potential indication, analysts say, of voter dissatisfaction wit...
Indirect talks run into third day with Qatar trying to negotiate release of $6bn in Iranian assets that could lead to reopening of straitOfficials from the Gulf states are “braced for the worst” as they wait for Washington’s response to an Iranian proposal that could reopen the s...
On Brexit, devolution and investment, the former chancellor is eerily in tune with the man who sacked herReeves says UK’s future is in the EUWhich senior politician has argued that “Brexit did deep damage” and that the government seeks “not to turn back the clock but to look towa...
Stevens lost the party’s Michigan primary by a close margin and had refused to endorse El-Sayed, with tensions between the two highCongresswoman Haley Stevens, who lost the Michigan Democratic Senate primary to Abdul El-Sayed, endorsed his Republican rival, Mike Rogers, in an ext...
Arrests come ahead of Wednesday’s supreme court challenge to the ban on the direct action groupPolice have said they arrested 325 people on Saturday at a demonstration outside the US embassy in London against the proscription of Palestine Action.In updated arrest figures released...
Reported strikes on two refineries risk angering the US president days before his country’s midterm electionsUkraine has resumed its attacks on Russian oil refineries in defiance of pressure from Donald Trump ahead of the US midterm elections, with a ceasefire in the occupied tow...
New electricity generating capacity would enable north-east to attract investment for major datacentre projectsNational Grid has taken a step towards building Britain’s biggest electricity substation on Teesside, which could supply power to a vast neighbouring datacentre, as the ...
Exclusive: Plan to allow students from bloc pay same fees as Britons contingent on entry to industrial programme, officials sayMinisters are prepared to spend as much as £450m a year to give students from the EU discounted university fees, the Guardian has learned, but only if Br...
Residents of Menomonie mounted a successful protest against a huge campus proposed by Meta – and community resistance to the AI boom is growingIn the spring of 2025, Sydney Brennan was riding high. The 22-year-old was finishing college and was a newly elected councilwoman in Meno...
Mann taken to hospital with superficial injury after weapon accidentally discharged while holsteredHollywood director Michael Mann has been taken to the hospital following an apparently accidental shooting at a Los Angeles gun range, according to the Associated Press.Mann, 83, re...
Youth-led protests end with street violence in cities across France, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal and Albania French officials have opened an investigation into the attempted murder of a police officer and Germany’s interior minister has called for harsh penalties after peacefu...
Police searching for ‘unknown group’ that gained entry to property in Chandler’s Ford on Saturday night Five teenage boys have been seriously hurt after being stabbed at a Halloween party in Hampshire, leading police to launch a search for an “unknown group”.The boys, all aged 16...
Police say three separate shootings occurred in Deep Ellum neighborhood and are trying to determine if they’re relatedPolice in Dallas say four people are dead and 15 are injured following separate shootings in a Dallas neighborhood. It was among several violent incidents nationw...