Former US president repeats 2020 election lie as rival candidate tells crowd New Hampshire is not last race in fight for Republican nomination Follow our live results tracker We are a ways out from the 5 November election itself, but after today’s primary in New Hampshire the election events start […]
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Simon Clarke, who served in Liz Truss’s cabinet, sparks renewed Conservative party infighting Rishi Sunak should resign before he leads the Conservatives to “extinction”, a Tory MP has said in an excoriating attack on the prime minister. In a dramatic intervention on Tuesday night, Simon Clarke, who was a cabinet […]
Pentagon calls attacks ‘necessary and proportionate’, after US personnel were injured in a weekend attack in Iraq See all our Middle East crisis coverage The US has carried out strikes in Iraq against three facilities linked to Iran-backed militia, the Pentagon has said, after a weekend attack on an Iraqi […]
Analysis also says not attending school is as deadly as smoking or heavy drinking Every year spent in school or university improves our life expectancy, while not attending school is as deadly as smoking or heavy drinking, according to the first systematic study directly linking education to gains in longevity. […]
CPS accepts Valdo Calocane’s plea of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility over killing of three people in June 2023 The families of three people stabbed to death in Nottingham have spoken of their contempt towards the killer, with one of the mothers saying she felt “utter rage and pure […]
Medical staff arrested at al-Khair hospital, Palestinian officials say, while al-Amal hospital surrounded by tanks The White House has called on Israel to protect innocent people as Palestinian officials said the Israeli military had stormed one hospital in Gaza and placed another under siege. National security council spokesperson John Kirby […]
Six million of the poorest people would need more than double their incomes to move out of hardship, says Joseph Rowntree Foundation Escaping poverty has become significantly harder over the past two decades, with progress to eradicate hardship in Britain having stalled under the Conservatives since 2010, a major report […]
Two people die in separate car collisions while tens of thousands suffer power cuts in wild weather Two people have died and tens of thousands were left without power after Storm Isha wreaked havoc across the UK with gusts as high as 107mph. Police Scotland said an 84-year-old man died […]
Opposition leader says prisoners forced to listen to ‘I am Russian’ by Shaman as part of 5am regime Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has complained of being poisoned, assaulted and deprived of proper medical care, but this week he disclosed he faced a new challenge: being forced to listen to […]
Treatment takes 15 minutes and involves swallowing a capsule with no need for surgery, endoscopy or anaesthesia A non-surgical gastric balloon which helps weight loss by restricting the size of the stomach has been made available on the NHS for the first time. The treatment, which was approved by the […]