Minister pledges more sports and drama in curriculum review as row deepens over two-child benefit cap • Interview Labour’s Bridget Phillipson: ‘I will help working-class pupils defy the odds to succeed’ Expanding opportunities for working-class children by broadening the school curriculum to include more sport, drama, art and music alongside […]
Month: July 2024
Three reported killed and 87 wounded after oil depot and electrical installations hit Powerful airstrikes rocked the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah a day after Israeli officials vowed revenge for a drone that struck Tel Aviv. Airstrikes hit a refinery and electricity infrastructure, sparking a huge blaze. It was […]
In first rally with running mate JD Vance, ex-president jibes at leadership chaos within Democratic party Donald Trump launched a full-throated attack on Democratic rivals Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday as he returned to the campaign trail a week after surviving an assassination attempt […]
Former MPs plan to return swiftly to parliament amid fears of a lurch to the right if Conservatives fail to explore reasons for defeat • Tobias Ellwood: the Conservative party faces an onerous task to rebuild itself, and every Tory must have a say Former Tory MPs defeated in Labour’s […]
Keir Starmer under pressure to scrap limit as more than dozen MPs thought to support king’s speech amendment Keir Starmer has come under further pressure to scrap the two-child benefit limit after another of his backbench MPs described the policy as “heinous”. Writing in The Sunday Times, Canterbury MP Rosie […]
Fault in CrowdStrike caused airports, businesses and healthcare services to languish in ‘largest outage in history’ Explainer – what we know so far Services began to come back online on Friday evening after an IT failure that wreaked havoc worldwide. But full recovery could take weeks, experts have said, after […]
Microsoft’s IT outage reveals the fragility of our software systems and the risks of a more serious technology collapse • Global Microsoft IT outage: latest updates Planes grounded, trains delayed, television stations off air, hospital appointments cancelled, electronic payments halted. No, it wasn’t the start of a massive cyber-attack from […]
Software made by US cybersecurity company was intended to protect against crashes and disruptions in vital systems – it ended up taking them down A global technology outage on Friday grounded flights, disrupted health services, crashed payment systems and blocked access to Microsoft services in what experts believe is one […]
More than 5,000 flights cancelled worldwide after problem affecting Microsoft Windows Business live – latest updates Passengers have described “bedlam” at UK airport check-ins after a global IT outage on what was due to be the busiest day for flying since the start of the Covid pandemic, while train networks […]
International court of justice says it should leave ‘as rapidly as possible’ and make full reparations for ‘wrongful acts’ The UN’s international court of justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to end its occupation of the Palestinian territories “as rapidly as possible” and make full reparations for its “internationally wrongful acts” […]