Russian leader refuses to commit to a full month-long truce after high-stakes phone call with Donald Trump Europe live – latest updates Vladimir Putin has agreed to a limited ceasefire that would stop Russia targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure after a high-stakes phone call with Donald Trump. But the Russian leader […]
Month: March 2025
Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, laid out plans for £5bn savings but faces rebellion from some Labour MPs Up to 1.2 million people with disabilities will lose thousands of pounds under the government’s welfare overhaul, experts have said, as campaigners warn the plan will exacerbate the country’s mental […]
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore back safely with American Nicholas Hague and Russian Aleksandr Gorbunov Two Nasa astronauts stuck onboard the International Space Station (ISS) since June 2024 finally arrived back on Earth on Tuesday evening, more than nine months after the failure of Boeing’s pioneering Starliner capsule scuppered their […]
Only six out of 56 treatments analysed yielded ‘small’ relief according to most comprehensive worldwide study, with some even increasing pain Five ways to help manage lower back pain Most treatments for back pain do not work and even the few that do bring little relief, a global review of […]
Experts doubt new trove of information will change underlying facts in case of 35th president’s death The Trump administration on Tuesday released thousands of pages of files concerning the assassination of John F Kennedy, the 35th president who was shot dead in Dallas, Texas, in November 1963. “So people have […]
Palestinian health ministry officials say 100 killed after Israeli military launches biggest attack on territory since January ceasefire began Deaths reported in Gaza as Israeli military conducts ‘extensive strikes’ despite ceasefire An Israeli official has tole Agence France Presse that the extensive operation launched across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday […]
The pilot, whose squadron shot down 90 enemy aircraft in an 11-day period in 1940, called himself the ‘lucky Irishman’ The last surviving Battle of Britain pilot, John “Paddy” Hemingway, has died aged 105. The Royal Air Force (RAF) said Hemingway, a member of “the Few” who took to the […]
Changes could deny benefits to people who need help to wash or to remember to go to the toilet Keir Starmer will unveil drastic cuts to disability benefits on Tuesday, despite deep opposition from Labour MPs and poverty campaigners, and warnings from economists against making kneejerk savings to hit fiscal […]
Break in cross-party consensus on issue to be announced on Tuesday Kemi Badenoch is dropping her party’s commitment to reaching net zero by 2050, as she launches the Conservatives’ widest policy review in a generation. The Tory leader will give a speech on Tuesday in which she will argue that […]
Friend of actor says he saw woman who accuses Clarke of sexual misconduct touch him on the buttocks A childhood friend of Noel Clarke saw one of the women accusing the former Doctor Who star of sexual misconduct grope him in a “playful” manner, the high court has heard. Clarke, […]