Witness identified as ‘Jane’ alleges Epstein began sexual abuse when she was 14 and says Maxwell was sometimes in the room Press, protesters, QAnon: the scene outside the trial The first accuser in Ghislaine Maxwell’s child sex trafficking trial testified in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday that she was just […]
Bonenkai – or end of year – party season kicks off in December with some reluctant to join the workplace tradition Not everyone in Japan is looking forward to observing the time-honoured tradition of drinking, eating, and drinking some more with groups of colleagues, even as the country begins to […]
Cllr Nick Kelly apologises for his advice, after McLeod death, that told women ‘not to put themselves in compromising position’ The leader of Plymouth city council has been suspended from the Conservative party over “victim-blaming” comments, after he told women “not to put themselves in a compromising position” following the […]
Ministers to ramp up vaccinations to 3.5m a week as minimum gap for boosters is halved to three months Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Ministers are targeting a return to half a million UK Covid jabs a day as the waiting time for boosters was cut […]
Dorsey co-founded site in 2006 and posted world’s first tweet Parag Agrawal, chief technology officer, to replace Dorsey Jack Dorsey: the exiting Twitter CEO with an artist’s vision Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has stepped down from his executive role at the social media company. Dorsey will be replaced by chief […]
Beefier roles for Cooper and others suggest drive to move Labour party further towards political centre Today’s politics news – live updates Keir Starmer has carried out a wholesale overhaul of his shadow cabinet, bringing Yvette Cooper back on to the frontbench as part of a ruthless shakeup widely viewed […]
Pandemic lockdowns and continued expansion in China helped the Danish company to continue building its global toy empire Lego, the world’s largest toymaker, has awarded its 20,000 employees three extra days of holiday and a special bonus after a year of bumper revenues. The succession of pandemic-forced lockdowns has seen […]
New boss Richard Moore to say adversaries are ‘pouring money’ into technology and the agency needs outside funding to keep up MI6 will have to become “more open to stay secret” and work with tech companies to counter threats posed by China and Russia who seek to gain advantage by […]
Change to criteria could happen as soon as Monday as No 10 tries to combat variant’s spread Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The Covid booster vaccination scheme could be significantly expanded as early as Monday as ministers try to combat the seemingly inevitable spread of the […]
The 12-year-old suffered ‘catastrophic injuries’ after attending city’s Christmas lights switch-on on Thursday A teenager has been charged with the murder of a 12-year-old girl in Liverpool city centre, police have said. Ava White had been in the city with friends on Thursday after the switching on of Christmas lights […]