Stade de France transformed into huge electronica dance party with world’s elite para athletes doing farewell conga With an explosion of fireworks, laser beams, breakdance and a thumping set by the giants of French electronica, France bid goodbye to the Paralympic Games on Sunday night with the biggest party it […]
Three firefighters injured and more than 35,000 structures endangered by Line fire amid days-long heatwave Tens of thousands of homes and buildings were threatened Sunday by an out-of-control wildfire burning in the foothills of a national forest east of Los Angeles, amid a days-long heatwave that pushed temperatures into the […]
Assistant commissioner says force hasn’t got ‘everything right’ in past year in its handling of large demonstrations over Gaza and the environment Arrests at large protests, including those organised by pro-Palestine and environmental groups, will probably be made more quickly in the future, the Metropolitan police’s assistant commissioner has said. […]
Britain’s pandemic response was among the worst and the NHS had been ‘seriously weakened’, says leading surgeon • Three reports lay bare scale of NHS malaise, but will Reeves fund a remedy? Britain was hit far harder by the Covid-19 pandemic than other developed countries because the NHS had been […]
Former prime minister also under fire for hiring ex-aide Charlotte Owen as VP despite her lack of energy sector experience Boris Johnson failed to disclose that he met a uranium lobbyist while prime minister before entering into a new business with a controversial Iranian-Canadian uranium entrepreneur, the Observer can reveal. […]
US secretary of state will be most senior US official to have travelled to London since Labour’s election victory The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, will head to London next week to discuss the Middle East and Ukraine, the state department announced on Saturday, in advance of a US […]
Perhaps, Lee Carsley was simply consumed by his focus on the opening minutes of his first game in interim charge of England. Because when the manager emerged to take his seat before kick-off and, yes, before the anthems, he turned right instead of left and sat down on the Republic […]
Employees have lost out on holiday pay worth £2bn, according to new trade union research Workers across Britain have lost out on holiday pay worth £2bn, with more than a million people going without a single day of paid time off, according to new research. With unions gathering in Brighton […]
Prime minister held a summit attended by National Crime Agency, Border Force and senior ministers Keir Starmer has pledged to break up people-smuggling gangs in the same manner used to apprehend and jail hundreds of rioters this summer. After a meeting with law enforcement agencies and cabinet ministers to discuss […]
Interim manager’s side face Ireland in Nations League ‘It’s something I’ve never done. I am in a zone’ Lee Carsley has said he will not sing England’s national anthem when he takes charge of his first match as interim head coach against the Republic of Ireland on Saturday. Carsley, who […]