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Energy bills in Great Britain are expected to fall by 7% this summer – the equivalent of more than £100 a year – after a drop in wholesale gas prices,…
Energy bills in Great Britain are expected to fall by 7% this summer – the equivalent of more than £100 a year – after a drop in wholesale gas prices,…
The TV presenter Kate Garraway has said the UK government’s prosecution of unpaid carers for thousands of pounds in benefit payments has a “horrible echo” of the Post Office scandal.…
It’s game on for a pair of presidential debates between two unpopular candidates most Americans wish weren’t running for the nation’s highest office. In a ratatat social media exchange on…
A British multinational design and engineering company behind world-famous buildings such as the Sydney Opera House has confirmed that it was the target of a deepfake scam that led to…
Plans for an alternative direct train service between Greater Manchester and London have been launched, promising competitive fares, by the transport group that already runs the main Avanti service linking…
“It’s the easiest rider we’ve ever done,” says the Ministry of Sound’s Mahit Anam. “Normally it’s five bottles of Patrón, four bottles of vodka … ” And this time? Water,…
Vladimir Putin is seeking to weaponise the threat of mass migration to divide and weaken Europe as supporters of Ukraine battle to maintain unity to defeat Russia, Kaja Kallas, the…
My local Turkish grocers have about half an aisle devoted to halva. There are tubs and tubs of the stuff, in all manner of flavours from almond and vanilla to…
A teacher has been found guilty of having sex with two schoolboys. Rebecca Joynes, 30, groomed the teenagers from the age of 15, Manchester crown court heard, and was on…
It is true that a postwar northern seaside landlady could be direct, insist on full-board guests being back for tea at 5pm or get nothing, and have no plug sockets…
The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has said the UK will look at the national security implications of a bid for Royal Mail by the Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský, but indicated ministers…
Norway’s state investment fund has urged Shell to clarify its climate targets as the oil group braces for its biggest ever green shareholder rebellion at next week’s annual general meeting.…
Taylor Swift has long been credited with an outsized influence on music, celebrity culture – even politics. But reviving the UK’s flagging economy may be too much to ask, even…
Republicans on defense, Democrats outraged after report of supreme court justice Alito flying Trump-supporting flag Good morning, US politics blog readers. The New York Times reported yesterday that a flag…
A trip to the British seaside may not always have been something to write home about, but these days you might struggle even if you wanted to. At the Little…
The world No 1, Scottie Scheffler, has returned to Valhalla an hour before his revised tee-time for the second round of the US PGA Championship after an extraordinary sequence of…
Snowtown murders accomplice Mark Ray Haydon has been released into the community, days ahead of the end of his 25-year sentence for helping cover up Australia’s most prolific serial killing…
I met my ex in our last year of high school. After a year of university we married when we were only 18. The first 10 years were rocky, with…
The British Museum has located another 268 items that went missing or were stolen from its storerooms, bringing the total number recovered to 626. About 2,000 items were found last…
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The legendary fashion editor Isabella Blow is remembered by her hats. A jewel-encrusted lobster which snaked back from her brow like a crustacean mohican. A miniature Chinese garden, complete with…
‘A woman of deep courage and life and vitality who is struggling against the system for her freedom and will scale anything for that,” is how US director Diane Paulus…
New entries to the list of top 100 baby names in England and Wales for 2022 suggest European names are gradually gaining favour, data from the Office for National Statistics…
Star Sydney midfielder Chad Warner faces a nervous wait after collecting Carlton big man Marc Pittonet in the head with an errant elbow Warner burst through a stoppage and gathered…
Strange to think the northern lights have been glimpsed in public more frequently over the past few years than the former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells. I didn’t see the…
In broad daylight on 16 April, three armed and uniformed men held up a city centre mobile phone shop. Threatening staff, they helped themselves to about £700 worth of goods,…
It is hard to define this arresting drama. It is a play that might also be a dance with words or a psychological musical. Whatever it is, movement is key…
From loom bands to fidget spinners, playground crazes are usually cheap and cheerful, but the latest must-have is an expensive drinks bottle that comes with scent pods that trick your…
China will cut mortgage rates and allow local authorities to turn unsold homes from developers into affordable housing, in a series of drastic measures by Beijing aimed at propping up…
Deliberate heading is to be banned in matches at under-11 level and below in England, the Football Association has confirmed, as it continues a process of “reviewing and improving the…
9newDrivers who get less than five hours of sleep at night are four times more likely to crash, new data has showed. Traffic Accident Commission and Monash University researchers have…
A man who murdered a pensioner in the street in “revenge” for the Israel-Gaza conflict has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 45 years. Ahmed Alid, 45,…
A terrified Perth mother is desperately calling on the WA state government to better protect victims of domestic violence. Her ex-partner was granted bail four times. The mother-of-three is a…
Shortly after the shooting of Robert Fico, I received a phone call from my sister. She was extremely upset – not just about the shocking attack, but also about an…
Antonio Pappano is the best thing that has happened to the Royal Opera in its lifetime. His 22 years as music director, notching up 700 performances – making him the…
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature The PGA have confirmed that all tee times have been pushed back one hour and 20…
Monday Nice weather is here! The sun is out and the papers and the internet are filling with their annual offers of help. This is my year, at last –…
Environmental protesters vowed to keep up the pressure on Tesla after failing to stop plans by Elon Musk’s company from expanding its sprawling electric vehicle plant outside Berlin. The town…
In this remarkable family memoir, the political journalist and Conservative peer Daniel Finkelstein documents the lives of his parents and grandparents under Hitler and Stalin, and “how the great forces…
Scottie Scheffler has been detained by police ahead of his second round at the PGA Championship, the second major tournament on the golf calendar. ESPN’s Jeff Darlington witnessed first-hand the…
Oil is inescapable in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The smell of it greets the visitor on arrival and from the shores of the Caspian Sea on which the city…
1) August 2015: first FA Cup win Chelsea secured their inaugural FA Cup on a historic day with a 1-0 victory over Notts County. The final was held at Wembley…
It is a figure that discombobulates the mind every bit as sharply as a right hook to the temple. When Tyson Fury fights Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia for the…
Exhibition of the week Judy Chicago: RevelationsAn illuminated manuscript that Chicago started in the 1970s and is only now being published reveals the thinking behind her renowned work The Dinner…
A dark money group with ties to Trump’s inner circle dropped more than $90m on ads described as vile, racist and transphobic in the second half of 2022 alone, new…
When Donald Trump last addressed members of the National Rifle Association in February, he pitched himself as a paragon of inaction on gun violence, vowing to again march in lockstep…
The message pads appear a little faded, but the handwriting on the spiral-bound notebooks is clear enough. Staff at Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion in Florida’s Palm Beach used the pads to…
Firstly, how do you reflect on the past eight and a half years? It is so rare in this industry that you can create this kind of relationship to a…
Perth parents say they “genuinely fear” for their son’s life if they are forced to leave the country because the toddler has cystic fibrosis (CF). Two-year-old Luca was born in…
The father of NRL Broncos player Payne Haas has been arrested in the Philippines over an alleged drug smuggling plot, which could see him face the death penalty. The 46-year-old…
Cases of an illness caused by a microscopic parasite in a Devon harbour town could continue for a further two weeks, experts said, with businesses predicting thousands of pounds of…
Mindfulness is about emptying the mind FALSE “Mindfulness is the opposite of ‘emptying the mind’; it is fully immersing the mind in precisely what you are doing,” says neuroscientist TJ…
Now that we are racing through May, I hope you’re surrounded by seedlings emerging and young plants putting down strong roots. It’s a good idea to sow about 20% more…
More than 55% of sperm samples from a French infertility clinic contained high levels of glyphosate, the world’s most common weedkiller, raising further questions about the chemical’s impact on reproductive…
For the past 16 years, I have run a small community pharmacy in rural west Dorset. My business is older than me – the little yellow-brick building I own is…
I’m so excited to share these recipes with you from my new book, The Green Cookbook. They’re perfect for lazy weekends with friends, because all of them can be mainly…
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The still calm of graveyards invites visitors to think about the dead, but now the Church of England is asking people across the country to look for surprising signs of…
Norwich City sacked David Wagner hours after they were thrashed by Leeds in Thursday’s playoff semi-final second leg, with the club keen to embark on a fresh approach. Defeat abruptly…
The father of NRL superstar Payne Haas could face the prospect of the death penalty after being arrested in the Philippines, according to multiple reports. Gregor Haas was arrested in…
It is meant to remind Britons of the “example set by our ultimate public servant”, but a £4.4m government scheme to send out free portraits of Charles III for display…
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof escaped imminent imprisonment in Iran by discarding all trackable electronic devices and walking across a mountainous borderland on foot, the film-maker has told the Guardian in…
Some of the greatest genre movies of all time are sequels. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; The Godfather Part II; The Dark…
Unhappy Christmas Arsenal played three games between 23 and 31 December and did not win any. At the time a 1-1 draw against Liverpool at Anfield seemed a decent result:…
The latest exhibition of works from Sir Elton John and David Furnish’s gargantuan photography collection is everything you’d expect it to be: spangly, iconoclastic – and a little bit basic.…
The Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey, has announced a big expansion of its operations in Leeds, with one in 10 officials to be based in the West Yorkshire city…
My earliest reading memoryI remember reading Roald Dahl and Diana Wynne Jones and, in particular, I remember my parents leaving all the volumes of CS Lewis’s Narnia series on my…
Supercars outfit Walkinshaw Andretti United (WAU) are mourning the loss of three family members, including endurance co-driver Lee Holdsworth’s father, Glen Holdsworth. They have also lost Marie McDonald, the mother…
Jeremy Hunt has said further tax cuts are on the way in the autumn after the economy has “turned a corner”, as he criticised Keir Starmer for promising “motherhood and…
Key events More quotes from Klopp soon as his unforgettable reign at Anfield comes to an end. In the meantime, let’s break off from the chin wobbling stuff with a…
I met Eric on a dating app in early 2018 when I was living in New York. He was handsome, talkative and interesting. I was falling for him – but…
To dress “like a French girl” means to look not just chic, but charming too. Allow me to try to translate (I dress French better than I speak it these…
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Preamble Good morning from a northern train chugging towards Blackpool north. The skies are …filthy… but…
“I’m coming home tonight.” These were the four words NSW girl Tirion Wilkinson uttered when she told her siblings she was free of stage four ovarian cancer. The 11-year-old was…
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For only the second time in Premier League history, the three promoted clubs are going straight back from whence they came. Bolton, Barnsley and Crystal Palace were relegated after one…
The artist behind the controversial “Portal” art exhibit that visually linked New York and Dublin in real-time, but was then closed due to rowdy and extreme behavior by the public…
The co-creator of the Death of England series of plays has said the decade-long project has endured because, alongside difficult conversations about race and immigration, the plays have a sense…
A heartbroken father has made a desperate plea to the NSW Government for help after his 14-year-old son died by suicide. Jason Woodhouse’s son Corey, 14, died in August 2023,…
An Essex businessman who won government contracts paying his firm £3.5m a day for transporting and accommodating asylum seekers has been named among the 350 richest people in the UK.…
Becky Hill Hill glides up on an ebike in full pop star clobber: leather flares, black strap top with enormous silver buckles, immaculately tousled hair, light green contacts that bestow…
The Brighton forward Katie Robinson has had a big 12 months, but it has not always been straightforward. There was the huge high of making Sarina Wiegman’s England squad for…
Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City – once the most densely populated place on Earth – is the perfect movie setting: a Piranesian labyrinth of squalid high rises and dark, cramped…
Pick of the weekA Banquet One night at a party, teenager Betsey (Jessica Alexander) walks into the woods and walks out a changed person. She stops eating and shows all…
The annual showcase of the best in photography features an unprecedented number of women working across all genres – from impressive up and comers to establishment names such as Nan…
Key events Jeremy Hunt accuses the Labour party of “taking people for fools” when they say that “living standards have fallen this parliament” without mentioning the pandemic or the energy…
It should have been what Magneto refers to as a “nostalgic parlor trick” – reviving the X-Men cartoon that aired on Saturday mornings throughout much of the 90s for the…
Six people have been injured when a truck and bus crashed near the intersection of a busy Sydney road. The vehicles collided at the intersection of Liverpool-Parramatta Transitway and Davis…
The head of Swimming Queensland has defended a campaign that saw Olympic champions lobby the National Gallery of Australia to take down portraits of their patron, Gina Rinehart, because they…
A motorcycle rider has been killed in a crash after colliding with a car west of Brisbane. The male motorcycle rider was travelling on Gatton Clifton Rd near Heifer Creek…
Massive Ukrainian drone attack on Crimea causes power cutoffs in Sevastopol A massive Ukrainian drone attack on Crimea early on Friday caused power cutoffs in the city of Sevastopol and…
Australian volunteers, who have been stranded in Vanuatu since an airline’s collapse, have been offered a lift home on a luxury cruise ship. Their club, whose travel insurance policy…
French police shot dead armed man who set fire to synagogue French police shot dead an armed man who set fire to Rouen’s synagogue, officials said this morning, Reuters reported.…
A man has been injured in a horrific crash between a truck and a ute in South Australia, about 20km north of Gawler. The two vehicles crashed on Owen Rd,…
The first Body Shop opened in my home town of Brighton in 1976. It recently closed, along with hundreds of others. They may yet reopen, but thebodyshop.com is still trading,…
Police have shot and killed an armed suspect who appeared to be planning to set fire to a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen, France’s interior ministry has said.…
Few singers can match the delicate warmth and quiet power of Arooj Aftab’s voice. Over the past decade, the Pakistani-American singer has released four albums that showcase her gossamer cadence…
England seniors won triple European gold on Wednesday as the generation which was second only to the USSR in the 1980s and 1990s continued to show its enduring strength. The…
Thelma the Unicorn, a new Netflix animated family movie, has plenty of successful tricks aimed at kids: glitter and cotton-candy pink, a pile of manure jokes, a mini-album of catchy…
The managing director of BYD’s local distributor isn’t keeping quiet about his company’s big plans for the new Sealion 6 plug-in hybrid SUV. Speaking with media this week, EVDirect managing…