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Jay Slater family fear online ‘noise’ may impede Tenerife search mission

Attempt to find British teenager now in its second week as groundless theories …

Lauren Boebert, hard-right Republican, wins Colorado primary after moving districts

Bitter intraparty fight is one of two elections that could help determine contr…

Julian Assange pleads guilty at court hearing in Saipan

Plea hearing is expected to result in the WikiLeaks founder’s freedom after an …

Hunter Biden law licence suspended after conviction in gun case

District of Columbia court hints at further repercussions, including possibilit…

‘It was a very tough period’: Italian antifascist MEP Ilaria Salis on her 15-month detention in Hungary

Activist says threat of up to 11 years in prison ‘still scares me a lot’ and sh…

Kevin, world’s tallest male dog, dies at age three: ‘He was the best giant boy’

Great dane, named after protagonist of Home Alone film series, died after falli…

Emmanuel Macron: win for far left or far right ‘will spark civil war’

French president’s comments made on podcast as RN releases manifesto pledging t…

Clothes, cookware, floss: Colorado law to ban everyday products with PFAS

Items containing ‘forever chemicals’ linked to cancer risk, lower fertility and…

Glastonbury weather: warm, dry and settled conditions forecast for festival

Relief as Met Office predicts generally dry conditions with moderate temperatur…

Gunmen who attacked religious buildings in Russia’s Dagestan region ‘eliminated’

Three days of mourning declared after 15 people reportedly killed during multip…

Greg Lynn trial: jury asks question about split verdicts as double murder deliberations enter second week

Victorian supreme court judge responds to jurors’ queries. Greg Lynn has pleade…

Sydney metro train line under harbour expected to open in August as trial services begin

If all test operations run without a hitch the Chatswood to Sydenham section wi…

Series of US mass shootings brings weekend of death and mayhem

One dead and 34 wounded as incidents in New York, Alabama, Missouri and Ohio sw…

Wolf attack at French zoo leaves woman fighting for life

Woman ‘ended up in safari zone’ while staying at lodge within Thoiry zoo about …

Home secretary’s aide says Rwanda policy is ‘crap’, in leaked recording

James Sunderland, an aide to James Cleverly who is seeking re-election as MP, m…

‘Scunnered with the Tories, frustrated by the SNP’: Labour in bid to be Scotland’s biggest party

Candidates in key central belt hope to scoop up voters who have become disillus…

Betting scandal as bad for Tories as Partygate, says Michael Gove

‘It looks like one rule for them and one rule for us,’ the levelling up, housin…

Betting scandal as bad for Tories as Partygate, says Michael Gove

‘It looks like one rule for them and one rule for us,’ the levelling up, housin…

Reopening Brexit debate would bring ‘turmoil’, says Keir Starmer

Labour leader rules out rejoining EU, single market or customs union * UK el…

‘We’re trying to change the festival world’: how south Asian music is transforming Glastonbury

This year is my first Glastonbury - and the first time south Asian artists will…

Coldest start to winter in decades in some areas with polar air mass predicted across Australia next week

Many parts of Victoria, NSW and Queensland have shivered through temperatures b…

Apple delays launch of AI-powered features in Europe, blaming EU rules

Apple says competition rules that require functionality with rival products wou…

UK government weighs action against Russian hackers over NHS records theft

National Crime Agency may take retaliatory measures after Qilin gang steals dat…

Second Canadian scientist alleges brain illness investigation was shut down

Exclusive: Prof Samuel Weiss said in leaked email that government halted effort…

The gardener who took a Canadian city to court for the right to not mow his lawn

Missisauga officials have twice forcibly cut Wolf Ruck’s grass and billed him, …

Four in five locum GPs in England unable to find work, BMA study finds

Government funding model blamed as more than half of GP locums surveyed said th…

NHS in summer crisis of emergency care waits, doctors say

Royal College of Emergency Medicine raises alarm over ‘entirely preventable’ de…

ACLU sues Louisiana over requiring the display of Ten Commandments in public schools

The state recently passed a law requiring that all public schools display the T…

Dinosaur with ‘blade-like nasal horns’ dug up in Montana may be new species

Lokiceratops, named after Norse god Loki, is possibly fifth species of Ceratops…

Bank of England keeps interest rates on hold at 5.25%

Seventh consecutive freeze comes despite fall in rate of inflation to 2% target…

Prisons in England and Wales will be at ‘breaking point’ in July, governors told

Exclusive: heads of prisons say they will no longer be able to accept new inmat…

Birmingham general election hopeful joked about domestic violence on podcast

Independent Akhmed Yakoob, who polls suggest is closing gap on Labour, also sai…

Expert economists back Labour’s plan to end economic stagnation in UK

Nobel prize winners and former Bank of England officials believe Rachel Reeves …

Alex Murdaugh’s son sues Netflix over docuseries linking him to 2015 death

Son of convicted murderer says Netflix defamed him when suggesting he was invol…

Russia and North Korea sign mutual defence pact

Agreement by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un to come to each other’s aid will ad…

Unsecured household debts set to rise by 9.4% this year, TUC says

Largest annual rise since records began in 1987 sees forecast of average £1,660…

Would face scanning technology keep Australian kids off social media? The UK regulator doubts it

Warning from Britain’s online safety authority casts doubt on age verification …

French far-right leader condemns Mbappé’s anti-extremism remarks

Jordan Bardella criticises footballer’s call for young people to vote against ‘…

HSBC’s Swiss private banking arm breached money-laundering rules, regulator finds

Finma watchdog says bank failed to carry out adequate checks of two high-risk b…

Secret Service agent robbed at gunpoint during Biden fundraising trip to LA

Agent fired weapon but unknown if assailants were hit as president was in town …

Jeremy Hunt: Liz Truss economic plans were ‘good thing to aim for’

Exclusive: Leaked recordings reveal chancellor ‘trying to achieve some of the s…

EU passes law to restore 20% of bloc’s land and sea by end of decade

Narrow win for supporters after fierce farmers’ protests, loss of green seats t…

Donald Trump looking for ‘fighter’ as Republican running mate

Sources close to ex-president say gender and race irrelevant over pick who’s ‘A…

First Thing: Global spending on nuclear weapons up 13% in record rise

World’s nuclear states on course to spend $100bn in 2024. Plus, Benjamin Netany…

Tactical voting could defeat Tories in once safe seats, campaigners say

Senior Tories such as Liz Truss and Jeremy Hunt could be for chop as well as on…

Sussex NHS trust apologises for cancer treatment delays before man’s death

University Hospitals Sussex admits errors, failures and surgeon disagreements i…

‘The brain is very vulnerable’: Dutch cyclists urged to wear helmets as road deaths rise

Helmet-wearing is rare in this nation of bike riders but authorities are pushin…

Russian special forces kill Islamic State-linked hostage-takers

Men linked to militant group took two guards hostage at facility in southern ci…

HMRC has failed to fine a single ‘enabler’ of offshore tax fraud in five years

Landmark powers to impose huge fines to tackle tax evasion and avoidance are ‘p…

Israeli military announces daily ‘tactical pause’ in southern Gaza to allow in aid

Eleven-hour window to allow in aid via Kerem Shalom crossing will take place ev…

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