Western diplomats attend as chanting crowd pays tribute to opposition leader who died in Arctic penal colony • Alexei Navalny funeral – latest updates • Funeral of Alexei Navalny – in pictures Defying the Kremlin’s warning of arrests, thousands of mourners have gathered in Moscow to bid farewell to the […]
Year: 2024
PM condemns ‘shocking increase in extremist disruption and criminality’ in wake of Gaza war, in sometimes rambling address Rishi Sunak has claimed extremist groups in the UK are “trying to tear us apart”, in a hastily arranged Downing Street statement that came hours after George Galloway won a byelection in […]
Rochdale byelection loss will concern MPs in seats with big Muslim populations, says Compass director Keir Starmer has been told that Labour risks taking its Muslim voters for granted, as MPs said the party had a fight on its hands to win back support lost over its position on the […]
Fashion personality who found fame in her 80s went from a copywriter at Women’s Wear Daily to a design authority whose projects included the White House Iris Apfel – a life in pictures Iris Apfel, the interior designer and fashion tastemaker who found fame as an octogenarian, has died aged […]
Attack on juvenile is thought to be first known time a lone orca has hunted down a great white It is a smash and grab that has stunned scientists: in less than two minutes, a killer whale attacked and consumed a great white shark before swimming off with the victim’s […]
Former Labour MP was favourite after party abandoned its candidate over inflammatory Israel comments The veteran political agitator George Galloway has won the Rochdale byelection after urging voters to lodge “the ultimate protest” over the conflict in Gaza. Galloway, one of the most divisive politicians in Britain, was the frontrunner […]
Inquiry into serial sexual offender Wayne Couzens outlines multiple failings by police forces The full extent of Wayne Couzens’ alleged offending was laid bare in a devastating official report that revealed accusations of serial sexual abuse including rapes, before he used his status as a police officer to kidnap and […]
Israeli military denies shooting into large crowds of hungry people and says most were killed in crush or run over trying to escape More than a hundred Palestinians were killed in the early hours of Thursday morning, Gaza health officials said, when desperate crowds gathered around aid trucks and Israeli […]
Gap projected to reach £228,800 a head by 2030, according to report by thinktank IPPR North Wealth inequality between the north and south of England is set to grow, with the gap reaching £228,800 per head by 2030, according to a thinktank report. The Institute for Public Policy Research North’s […]
Disclosure, calculated on basis of 300 deportations, called ‘staggering’ by chair of home affairs committee Rishi Sunak’s flagship plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will cost taxpayers £1.8m for each of the first 300 people the government deports to Kigali, Whitehall’s official spending watchdog has disclosed. The overall cost […]