Other perks including nine-day fortnight and more planning time at home offered to attract recruits ‘A brave new world for educators’: teachers respond to nine-day-fortnight proposals Teachers in England are being offered a range of incentives to make the job more appealing, including two free periods a week to give […]
World Health Organization and Great British Menu among accounts that posted ‘this is a hacked account’ British politicians and international organisations have had their accounts on X hacked on Wednesday night. MPs including Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, and the Labour MPs Chris Elmore and Carolyn Harris all shared the […]
CQC issues damning report on maternity services in England as minister admits anxiety over ‘risk of disaster’ Maternity services in England are so inadequate that cases of women receiving poor care and being harmed in childbirth are in danger of becoming “normalised”, the NHS regulator has said. A Care Quality […]
Israel yet to make statement about detonations across Lebanon that killed a 10-year-old girl and left 400 in a reported critical condition What we know about the Hezbollah pager explosions Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel after pagers used by its members exploded across Lebanon simultaneously, killing at least […]
Cabinet minister defends PM in gifts row and says UK ‘can be turned around’ despite economic gloom One of the most powerful figures in government has defended Keir Starmer amid a row over gifts from a party donor, saying the prime minister is a man of integrity who is not […]
Microsoft researchers found that the group created a video, paid an actor to appear as the alleged victim, and spread the claim through a fake website A false claim circulating on social media that Kamala Harris was involved in an alleged hit-and-run in San Francisco in 2011 is the work […]
Centre for Women’s Justice gathered testimony from more than 200 women alleging attacks by police officer partners Male police officers accused of domestic abuse were promoted into positions tackling rape and violence against women, rather than being punished, according to a new report. The report from the Centre for Women’s […]
Open Rights Group say digital documentation system is prone to data errors, system crashes and other glitches Millions of migrants have been urged to register for a new eVisa scheme as campaigners warn the document could create a digital Windrush scandal. The scheme, which will be introduced at the end […]
Ryan Wesley Routh charged with gun-related offenses after apparent assassination attempt against former president Muddled politics and multiple arrests: who is the suspect? US politics live – follow updates The suspect in the second apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump in as many months was charged in federal court on […]
Child deaths from infections see ‘remarkable’ decline but AMR fatalities of over-70s likely to rise by 146%, study finds Analysis: Drug-resistant infections are on the rise – so why aren’t we getting any new antibiotics? Superbugs will kill more than 39 million people before 2050 with older people particularly at […]