Natural History Museum prepares to study pristine material gathered in Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission A teaspoon’s worth of dark dust and granules scooped from an asteroid 200m miles from Earth has arrived at the Natural History Museum in London, where scientists are preparing to unlock its secrets. Researchers at the museum […]
Warning: sensitive contentBoy and girl on trial at Manchester crown court over fatal stabbing of Brianna in a Cheshire park in February Two teenagers accused of murdering a 16-year-old girl in a park near Warrington had a list of five children they wanted to kill, a court has heard. The […]
Imprisonment for public protection sentences will now have an end date under changes in England and Wales ‘It’s bittersweet’: MoJ sentencing changes will bring freedom for some More than 1,800 offenders in England and Wales who have been released on licence but remain under indefinite threat of recall to jail […]
Exclusive: figures include one man who died during 18-minute wait for the ambulance service to answer his 999 call ‘You feel frustrated and scared’: patients left waiting for NHS care Almost 8,000 people were harmed and 112 died last year as a direct result of enduring long waits for an […]
Report says lack of ‘intellectual diversity’ at senior level and too wide a range of priorities led to errors and fall in public confidence The Bank of England’s reliance on “inadequate” forecasting models and a lack of intellectual diversity within its most senior ranks contributed to inflation sticking at among […]
Israel frees more prisoners in exchange but insists its military campaign in Gaza is far from over Israel-Hamas war – live updates The third exchange of hostages and prisoners between Hamas and Israel has taken place as the US expressed hope that a fragile four-day truce in Gaza would be […]
Darren Jones says figures are ‘extremely high’ and party would aim to reduce them to ‘normal levels’ A Labour government would cut net migration to a “couple of hundred thousand a year” within its first term, a shadow cabinet minister has said. The shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren […]
The Irish author’s novel set in an imagined Dublin descending into far-right tyranny wins £50,000 prize • Paul Lynch’s timely Booker winner is a novel written to jolt the reader awake Irish author Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker prize for his fifth novel Prophet Song, set in an […]
Israeli military says 13 Israelis released with four Thais by Palestinian militant group are on way to hospitals in Israel where they will reunite with families Here are some pictures of Yaffa Adar, 85, as she was reunited with her family after being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza. She […]
Proposals to stop workers bringing dependants should be halted unless jobs are made more appealing to Britons, expert says Read more: Fears over Tories’ plans to limit immigration The government’s top immigration adviser has attacked plans to prevent overseas care workers from bringing family members to the UK, warning that […]