Scottish fire and rescue confirm explosion in cities south-west as police advise people to avoid the area Two people have been rescued from a home in Scotland after an explosion in residential Edinburgh. Police Scotland confirmed reports were received of an eruption at an address on Baberton Mains Avenue at […]
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Actor called critics ‘paedophiles’ after they labelled him ‘racist’ following his call for boycott of Sainsbury’s over Black History Month stance The actor and politician Laurence Fox has been accused of “insulting the intelligence of everyone present” during a libel trial at the high court over an argument on social […]
Israel orders Palestinians to evacuate southern city of Khan Younis, where it says Hamas leadership is based Israel-Hamas war – live updates Israel has signalled that it is preparing to launch a ground assault in southern Gaza in a significant escalation of the war, as it attacked the Strip on […]
Charities and NGOs accuse government of changing how it calculates climate spending to claim it will exceed targets Rishi Sunak has been accused of sending out the wrong signals on tackling the climate emergency as he heads to the Cop28 summit in Dubai after saying his revised net zero targets […]
IDF says six more Israeli captives handed over to Red Cross after two people released earlier; Israel says 30 Palestinians released from prisons Israel and Palestine: a complete guide to the crisis China’s government has released a position paper on the Israel-Hamas conflict. The country this month took the chair […]
One of the all-time great bandleaders and writer of Christmas classic Fairytale of New York, MacGowan invigorated rock with the power of Irish folk music • Alexis Petridis on Shane MacGowan: the poet-musician of dereliction who became a mythic figure• Shane MacGowan – a life in pictures Shane MacGowan, the […]
Former staff and media experts express dismay and anger as Emily Maitlis says corporation bosses have shown ‘they don’t really care’ Cuts to the BBC’s flagship evening news programme Newsnight have been described as “a bad decision” that reveals a “loss of confidence” at the corporation. Newsnight staff past and […]
Dutch version of book pulped after king and duchess named as speculating about skin colour of Harry and Meghan’s son, in pages on ‘unconscious bias’ A royal author has said an investigation is under way into how the Dutch version of his new book named two senior members of the […]
A Republican party giant and Nobel peace prize winner, the former national security adviser was a key architect of US foreign policy Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state under Richard Nixon who became one of the most prominent and controversial figures of US foreign policy in the 20th century, […]
European Commission president said Brexit could be fixed because leaders had ‘goofed it up’ Rishi Sunak has rejected the suggestion that Brexit could be in peril after Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, claimed that the UK could be on a path to rejoining the European […]