Leaders endorse Ursula von der Leyen proposal as French president calls Vladimir Putin ‘an imperialist who seeks to rewrite history’ European leaders holding emergency talks in Brussels have agreed on a massive increase to defence spending, amid a drive to shore up support for Ukraine after Donald Trump halted US […]
Month: March 2025
NUH trust apologises to families of Ian Coates, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber as it opens investigation into allegations An NHS trust is investigating allegations that healthcare staff illegally accessed medical records belonging to the Nottingham attack victims. The medical director at Nottingham university hospitals NHS trust [NUH] has apologised […]
State department is using AI to review tens of thousands of accounts, reports say Trump delays tariffs on many products from Mexico and Canada The White House announced that Donald Trump will sign executive orders at 2pm ET. While they did not specify what he may sign, the president is […]
Back-to-back mishaps indicate big setbacks for program to launch satellites and send humans to the moon and Mars SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft exploded on Thursday minutes after lifting off from Texas, dooming an attempt to deploy mock satellites in the second consecutive failure this year for Elon Musk’s Mars rocket program. […]
Briton goes down 6-3, 6-2 to Moyuka Uchijima Indian Wells defeat follows difficult few weeks After an extremely difficult month in which she was pursued across tennis tournaments in Asia by an obsessive spectator, Emma Raducanu struggled to find her range and rhythm on her return to competition and was […]
US no longer providing information about targets in Russia, in latest blow after halting military aid The US has stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine after Donald Trump’s suspension of military aid on Monday, in another serious blow to Kyiv in the war with Russia. White House officials indicated that both […]
Police source says extent of Zhenhao Zou’s violence against women could be worst seen in Britain Zhenhao Zou: ‘charming’ PhD student who filmed dozens of attacks on women Police fear the PhD student convicted of drugging and raping 10 women could be one of the worst sexual offenders in British […]
Sir David Manning and other former diplomats highlight major changes in ‘special relationship’ UK politics live – latest updates Something seismic has changed in the US-British relationship that will require the UK to look elsewhere for allies and accept that deals such as cooperation over the British nuclear deterrent are […]
US president tells group to ‘release all of the Hostages now … or it is OVER for you’ as White House enters negotiations Donald Trump has posted a fresh ultimatum to Hamas, telling the group to “release all of the Hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the […]
Survey reveals senior officials think changes will do little to address local authorities’ dire financial crisis Ministers’ plans to shake up the structure of English local government by merging councils are “ill-thought-out”, “insane” and a “bizarre diversion” that will fail to deliver savings, according to a survey of town hall […]