Sources says government is ‘not going to find a way’ to ditch cap despite predictions that child poverty levels will soar Ministers are privately ruling out scrapping the two-child benefit cap despite warnings from charities that a failure to do so could result in the highest levels of child poverty […]
Month: April 2025
University fights back against threats to cut about $9bn in funding for school after it refused to comply with demands Harvard University has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging it is trying to “gain control of academic decision-making at Harvard”. The university is fighting back against the administration’s […]
Pontiff had requested simple burial ‘without particular decoration’ at Rome church rather than beneath St Peter’s Death of Pope Francis – latest updates Pope Francis obituary Pope Francis died of a stroke and subsequent heart failure, the Vatican has said in a statement, revealing that the pontiff had requested to […]
Which? calls for ‘tough new laws’ to make selling platforms responsible for ensuring safety of their electronic products Illegal and potentially dangerous plug-in “energy-saving” devices are still widely available for sale to UK shoppers on online marketplaces, according to an investigation. These so-called “energy-saving plugs” or “eco plugs” – which […]
Officials say UK faces a ‘new economic reality’, but chancellor will not strike US deal at any cost Rachel Reeves will fly to Washington this week to argue for global free trade in the face of Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs, amid continued international economic turbulence. The UK chancellor will use […]
Exclusive: Britons found to have ‘lost out’ while rest of Europe benefits from golden age of research and treatments ‘Children with cancer cannot wait’: the human cost of clinical trial delays after Brexit British cancer patients are being denied life-saving drugs and trials of revolutionary treatments are being derailed by […]
US defense secretary texted strike information to his family in group chat he created, sources tell the New York Times Before the US launched military strikes on Yemen in March, Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, sent detailed information about the planned attacks to a private Signal group chat that he […]
Ukrainian president dismisses move as ‘PR’ amid reports of strikes, while Moscow also claims breaches by Kyiv Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed Vladimir Putin’s Easter ceasefire as a fake “PR” exercise and said Russian troops had continued their drone and artillery attacks across many parts of the frontline. Citing a report […]
With estimated $55m price set to balloon by 125%, 737 Max returns to Seattle production hub still wearing the colours of Xiamen Airlines A Boeing jet intended for a Chinese airline landed back at the planemaker’s US production hub on Sunday, a victim of the tit-for-tat bilateral tariffs launched by […]
IDF says it is dismissing deputy commander for giving ‘inaccurate report’ on shooting that caused global outcry Israel’s military has admitted to several “professional failures” and a breach of orders in the killing of 15 rescue workers in Gaza last month, and said that it was dismissing a deputy commander […]