Exclusive: Move allows China to further global influence, UK foreign secretary says on Ukraine visit Donald Trump’s plans to make dramatic cuts to the United States’ international aid budget could be a “big strategic mistake” that allows China to step in and further its global influence, the UK foreign secretary […]
Month: February 2025
Prime minister says US president covets northern neighbour’s vast resources as Canadians rally against threat Donald Trump’s recent fixation on absorbing Canada is “a real thing”, Justin Trudeau has told business leaders, warning that the US president wants access to his northern neighbour’s vast supply of critical minerals. The outgoing […]
Andrew Searle, retired fraud investigator, and wife, Dawn, found dead in their rural home in south-west France French police are investigating the deaths of a retired British couple who were found in their renovated rural home in Aveyron, south-west France. The bodies of Andrew Searle, a retired fraud investigator, and […]
Harry Maguire: from up for sale two summers ago to redemption completed via a 93rd-minute nodded winner. If the defender was clearly offside when meeting Bruno Fernandes’s spiralling free-kick from the left he certainly did not care as here was his own tale of FA Cup romance. Before the rush […]
Exclusive: ‘No scientific justification’ to say former nurse definitely poisoned babies with insulin, according to study authors The claim that Lucy Letby definitely poisoned babies with insulin has “no scientific justification whatsoever” and there is a “very strong level of reasonable doubt” about the convictions, according to the authors of […]
US president has been critical of court since it issued arrest warrant for Netanyahu over alleged war crimes in Gaza Donald Trump has signed an executive order that authorises aggressive economic sanctions against the international criminal court (ICC), accusing the body of “illegitimate and baseless actions” targeting the US and […]
Four MPs who oppose bill email colleagues to rebuke its sponsor, as concerns raised over pressure on committee Four Labour MPs have sent a mass email to colleagues with a stinging rebuke of the assisted dying bill’s sponsor, accusing her of portraying a one-sided view of expert evidence. In a […]
UK economy expected to grow by just 0.75% this year, in fresh blow to Rachel Reeves’s attempts to raise confidence Rachel Reeves’s plans for growth suffered a double blow after the Bank of England halved its forecast for the year and warned households would face mounting pressure from rising prices. […]
Authorities are hoping to to slow population growth and curb conflict with humans Thailand will begin giving birth control to a small number of wild female elephants this year, as the country struggles with the growing problem of human-elephant conflict. Asian elephants have been classified as endangered since 1986. But […]
Ange Postecoglou mused recently about hope and the inherent futility of it in terms of the way things have gone for Tottenham this season. Every time the manager had seen “light at the end of the tunnel”, he said, it had “usually been an oncoming train”. He was talking about […]