Inexpensive test can help diagnose even ‘inaccessible’ tumours earlier, speeding up treatment and improving outcomes Surgeons and scientists have developed a world-first blood test for brain cancer that experts say could revolutionise diagnosis, speed up treatment and boost survival rates. For years, brain tumours have remained notoriously difficult to diagnose. […]

Calocane detained in high-security hospital after pleading guilty to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility The mother of a Nottingham stabbing victim said “true justice has not been served” after the killer was sentenced to indefinite detention in a high-security hospital. Emma Webber, the mother of 19-year-old Barnaby Webber who […]

Lawyers failed to persuade courts to stay the execution, arguing procedure amounted to cruel and unusual punishment Alabama has carried out the first execution of a death row inmate in the US using nitrogen gas, an untested procedure which the prisoner’s lawyers had argued amounted to a form of cruel […]

Exclusive: Proposals to be put forward next month will favour UK citizens, but experts say they are likely to be illegal or unworkable Downing Street wants to give UK families higher priority for social housing in a controversial scheme that will be badged as “British homes for British workers”, the […]

Analysis of more than 1m children reveals ‘alarming’ effects of pandemic Almost one in four children aged 10 and 11 in England are obese, according to the largest study of its kind – a finding that experts say exposes the “profound” and “alarming” long-term impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Obesity […]

Girls aged eight and 12 and a 36-year-old woman died from knife wounds to the neck The deaths of a woman and two children at a house in Norfolk are being treated as murder, police have confirmed. Kanticha Sukpengpanao, 36, Jasmin Kuczynska, 12, and Natasha Kuczynska, eight, were discovered with […]

Will Dry, who quit his No 10 role last November after becoming dispirited, says his party is ‘heading for most almighty of defeats’ Rishi Sunak’s former special adviser is working with a group of rebels trying to oust the prime minister and helped commission polling which predicted a landslide Labour […]

Moscow says aircraft that went down in border region of Belgorod was carrying prisoners who were to be swapped Russia has accused Kyiv of downing a large military transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war to an exchange on Wednesday, after a crash in the Belgorod region that killed everyone […]

Pentagon calls attacks ‘necessary and proportionate’, after US personnel were injured in a weekend attack in Iraq See all our Middle East crisis coverage The US has carried out strikes in Iraq against three facilities linked to Iran-backed militia, the Pentagon has said, after a weekend attack on an Iraqi […]

Simon Clarke, who served in Liz Truss’s cabinet, sparks renewed Conservative party infighting Rishi Sunak should resign before he leads the Conservatives to “extinction”, a Tory MP has said in an excoriating attack on the prime minister. In a dramatic intervention on Tuesday night, Simon Clarke, who was a cabinet […]