The UN Palestinian refugee agency said the attack on Nuseirat led to the highest death toll among its staff in a single incident See all our coverage of the Israel-Gaza war An Israeli airstrike on a central Gaza school being used as a shelter for displaced Palestinians has killed 14 […]
Detailed analysis warns Keir Starmer it will take longer than five years to get waiting times back on track Long delays for hospital, GP and mental health services are leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths and have ruptured “the social contract between the NHS and the people”, an inquiry has […]
Decision understood to have already been made in private as secretary of state says in Kyiv that US will continue to adapt policy The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, gave his strongest hint yet that the White House is about to lift its restrictions on Ukraine using long-range weapons […]
Figure is largely in addition to £7.8bn committed since Russia’s invasion, says National Audit Office report Britain has donated arms and equipment to Ukraine that would cost £2.71bn to replace, largely in addition to the £7.8bn committed by prime ministers since Russia’s full-scale invasion, according to a National Audit Office […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ trust tells inquest highly vulnerable Aviva Otte was given nutritional product containing deadly bacteria An NHS trust has admitted that a highly vulnerable baby died because of contaminated feed that it gave her, after denying that for more than a decade. At an inquest on Tuesday, […]
Conservative motion to strike down plan is defeated but more than 50 Labour MPs abstain UK politics live – latest updates MPs have voted to remove the winter fuel allowance from all but the poorest pensioners in England and Wales, with a significant number of Labour MPs abstaining. After a […]
Announcement on taxpayer-funded rescue plan for Tata-owned south Wales plant expected on Wednesday The British steel industry is braced for 2,500 job cuts at the Port Talbot steelworks, with thousands more jobs at risk in the UK, as the government prepares a taxpayer-backed deal for the south Wales plant. The […]
Candidates also clash on January 6 and Republican election lies as moderators fact-check Trump claims on air Abortion and Project 2025: fact checking the presidential debate ‘They’re eating the cats’: Trump repeats lies about immigrants Donald Trump arrived in Philadelphia earlier today for his debate with Kamala Harris. Photographers captured […]
Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs that axing allowance for all but poorest pensioners will help plug £22bn hole in finances The chancellor has faced down would-be rebels in a private meeting of Labour MPs ahead of the crunch vote on the government’s controversial plan to scrap the winter fuel allowance. […]
American actor starred in films including The Great White Hope and The Lion King, and won two Tony awards in prolific stage career James Earl Jones: a life in pictures James Earl Jones, the actor whose beautifully sonorous tones gave voice to Star Wars’ principal villain Darth Vader, has died […]