Announcement prompts concerns that PM is pandering to US president and warnings over consequences of aid cuts Keir Starmer has announced that Britain will “fight for peace in Europe” with a generational increase in defence spending paid for by slashing the foreign aid budget. The move, just two days before […]
Month: February 2025
NHS staff fear power grab by health department as health secretary looks to shrink body due to ‘duplication’ of roles Wes Streeting will axe thousands of jobs at NHS England after his ousting of its chair and chief executive in what health service staff fear is a power grab. The […]
Malaysia transport minister says firm Ocean Infinity has resumed hunt for the plane, which went missing in one of aviation’s biggest mysteries A new search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been launched more than a decade after the plane went missing in one of aviation’s greatest enduring mysteries. Maritime […]
Climate Change Committee issues advice to government on meeting carbon emissions target by 2050 What would reaching net zero mean for life in 2040s Britain? Giving up two doner kebabs’ worth of meat a week will be enough to keep the UK within safe climate limits by the end of […]
President says ‘I hear he’s coming on Friday’ amid reports that terms of US-Ukraine aid exchange have been reached Donald Trump has said that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is likely to visit the White House on Friday to sign a rare earth minerals deal to pay for US military aid to defend […]
France’s Macron corrects US president’s claim that Europe has only loaned funds to Kyiv at White House meeting Donald Trump has said the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, would accept European peacekeepers in Ukraine as part of a potential deal to end the three-year war. The US president was speaking alongside […]
Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permission More than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn and Annie Lennox, have released a silent album in protest against UK government plans to let artificial intelligence companies use copyright-protected […]
Leader of victorious conservative alliance says continent must build defence capability as US moves towards ‘America alone’ motto The man expected to be Germany’s next chancellor has said Europe must act swiftly to increase its defence capability in the face of a US administration whose motto is moving towards “America […]
Nicholas Prosper admitted murdering his mother and teenage siblings and had planned to target St Joseph’s Catholic primary school Video allegedly posted by killer raises questions over motive A 19-year-old man who shot dead his mother and two younger siblings at their home in Luton was also plotting a shooting […]
Watchdog recommends use of ‘hash-matching’ to allow images to be identified at scale wherever they are shared Tech platforms should combat the rapid rise in explicit deepfakes and “revenge porn” by using a database of images to protect women and girls online, according to new guidance being drawn up by […]