Party suspends North East Somerset MP after he is taken into custody following police raid on his constituency home Labour have suspended Dan Norris, the MP for North East Somerset and Hanham, after he was arrested on suspicion of rape and child sex offences. Norris, a former Labour minister who […]
Month: April 2025
Exclusive: young volunteers also allege spiritual abuse and controlling behaviour at bases of Youth With a Mission ‘It felt like a demon was inside me’: young Christian missionaries allege spiritual abuse The world’s biggest youth Christian missionary organisation is facing allegations of spiritual abuse and controlling behaviour from young people […]
Beijing imposes punitive 34% extra tariffs on all goods imported from US, exacerbating stock market sell-off US politics live – latest updates China has hit back hard against Donald Trump’s “bullying” tariffs, raising fears that the escalating trade war could trigger a global recession and prompting fresh turmoil in financial […]
Actor and comedian charged with rape, indecent assault, oral rape and two counts of sexual assault, say police The comedian and actor Russell Brand has been charged with one count each of rape, indecent assault and oral rape as well as two counts of sexual assault. Brand will appear in […]
Released court statement says alleged Chinese spy helped draft private letters to Chinese president The Duke of York sent letters directly to China’s president, the prince’s former senior adviser told a special immigration tribunal, with an alleged Chinese spy advising him on how to write them. Dominic Hampshire, who worked […]
Bafta endorsement could have escalated actor’s allegedly abusive behaviour towards women, Katharine Viner said The editor-in-chief of the Guardian, Katharine Viner, has told the high court there was a “very high public interest” in reporting allegations made against Noel Clarke after he received a special Bafta award. In a witness […]
Nine children among the dead in strike on Kryvyi Rih residential area as Kyiv says Moscow’s claim it targeted military gathering is false. What we know on day 1,137 See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage A Russian missile strike killed at least 18 people, including nine children, in a residential […]
Economists say levies of between 10% and 50% have dramatically added to the risk of a worldwide downturn Global financial markets have been plunged into turmoil as Donald Trump’s escalating trade war knocked trillions of dollars off the value of the world’s biggest companies and heightened fears of a US […]
Kristolina Georgieva warns against retaliation to US levies while US president insists ‘markets will boom’ after sweeping tariff announcement Full report: Global markets in turmoil as Trump tariffs wipe $2.5tn off Wall Street Analysis: Trump’s ‘idiotic’ and flawed tariff calculations stun economists In the Pacific, Fiji is the hardest hit […]
All three major US index funds close down as Apple and Nvidia, two of US’s largest companies, lose combined $470bn US stock markets tumbled on Thursday as investors parsed the sweeping change in global trading following Donald Trump’s announcement of a barrage of tariffs on the country’s trading partners. All […]