Members of the public will be able to apply for tickets to Windsor Castle event via BBC website from Friday A national ballot is being held for 10,000 free tickets for the coronation concert at Windsor Castle, the BBC has announced. The live televised concert will be held on 7 […]
Great uncle will look after baby whose mother died in the wreckage of their home, as teenager pulled alive from house in Turkey, days after quake A Syrian baby girl whose mother died after giving birth to her under the rubble of their home during this week’s earthquake now has […]
Attacks come as Luhansk governor says Russia has launched a major offensive in eastern Ukraine Russia has launched a drone and missile attack on targets in the south and east of Ukraine, according to officials and local residents who reported hearing loud explosions. Air raid sirens sounded in much of […]
Ashley Dalton retains constituency for Labour after resignation of Rosie Cooper last autumn Labour has retained the West Lancashire constituency in a byelection called after its MP, Rosie Cooper, resigned last autumn. Ashley Dalton won with 14,068 votes. The Conservative candidate Mike Prendergast followed in second with 5,742. There was […]
Rishi Sunak asks defence secretary to look at options after Ukrainian leader’s plea in speech to MPs and peers Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updates Volodymyr Zelenskiy made an emotional appeal to the UK to supply Ukraine with fighter jets on a surprise visit to the UK, forcing Rishi Sunak, […]
Specialists ‘categorically’ believe 45-year-old not in section of river where detectives think she fell in A specialist underwater search team looking for Nicola Bulley have pulled out of the operation and believe “categorically” the 45-year-old is not in the section of the river where detectives believe she fell in. Peter […]
US tech publication reports CEO Elon Musk has asked staff to pause all new development to stabilise app Twitter users were unable to post instantly on the website for almost an hour, in the latest outage to hit the social media platform since billionaire Elon Musk’s $44bn takeover. From around […]
In Kahramanmaraş and Pazarcık, rescuers comb the rubble, often finding only body parts. Some say help took too long to arrive Rescue workers in Kahramanmaraş said they could smell corpses as they dug through piles of debris in the centre of a town now so devastated by the earthquake and […]
US ‘not the only target’ of Chinese surveillance, warns US secretary of state, as FBI investigates balloon wreckage China has a “fleet” of surveillance balloons of different shapes and sizes, which it has deployed over five continents, US officials have claimed. The allegations on Wednesday came as salvage work continued […]
US president believes he has an economic success story to tell although polls indicate voters are skeptical Sign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by email Joe Biden has left the White House and is driving down Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol to give the State […]