BBC The UK will “match China and Russia with nuclear jets” reports The Times, in a piece about the UK purchasing 12 new fighter jets which can be equipped with nuclear bombs. Acquiring the jets is “the biggest expansion of the deterrent since the Cold War,” it says. Another headline on the front page is...
England’s Harry Brook drops KL Rahul on 58 after failing to take a catch at gully, leaving India on 123-3 in their second innings of the first Test at Headingley. Read full article at source...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a legal complaint filed last year against the GEO Group, a major donor to President Donald Trump that has...
Australia’s Steve Smith injures his finger as he drops South Africa captain Temba Bavuma on two in the ICC World Test Championship final. Read full article at source...
Rory McIlroy suffers a tough end to his opening round of the US Open at Oakmont with a double bogey on the par-three eighth, leaving him on four-over-par after day one. Read full article at source...
The backlog in routine hospital treatments in England has reached its lowest level for two years. Data for the end of April showed the waiting list dropped to 7.39 million, down from 7.42 million in March. But it is nine years since the NHS has met its target of 92% of patients being seen in...
Danny Fullbrook Culture reporter BBC Blake Lively co-starred with director Justin Baldoni in It Ends With Us, which was released last summer The actress Blake Lively has attempted to withdraw two of the claims she made about director Justin Baldoni. Both have been engaged in a legal dispute since Lively sued Baldoni in December 2024...
Just a hair over a week ago (ten days to be exact), an official arm of the German government declared the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party – now polling as Germany’s most popular party in the country – a ‘right-wing extremist’ group. Yeah, right – so big deal, no? I mean, they’ve been calling...
About a year ago there were anti-Israel protests on the campus of the University of Michigan similar to the ones taking place at other schools. Some of those protests resulted in arrests but in a pattern familiar to anyone who follows left-wing activists, charges against those involved were either never filed at all or were...
Getty Images Protestors at a UK Women’s March in Edinburgh in January, highlighting a rise in misogyny The Scottish government has confirmed it will not bring forward planned legislation to criminalise misogyny before next year’s Holyrood election. A bill has long been promised to improve protections for women and girls, but ministers now say there...
Talk about a tariff last hurrah. America rushed to import goods in the first quarter of 2025 in advance of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day,” and that was enough to put the economy into negative territory. Today’s GDP report shows the Q1 result at an annualized -0.3% rate of growth, but the import data buried otherwise...
Faarea Masud BBC Business reporter Getty Images Falling petrol prices drove UK inflation down by more than expected in the year to March. Inflation was 2.6%, down from a rate of 2.8% in February, according to official data. But the fall may only be temporary as analysts say it’s expected to spike from April as...
US Vice-president JD Vance has dropped the College Football Playoff National Championship trophy at the White House on Monday during Ohio State Buckeyes’ visit. The 2025 College Football champions were invited by President Donald Trump to celebrate the team’s title-winning season with a ceremony on the South Lawn. Read full article at source...
UK inflation fell by more than expected in February, driven by a drop in the prices of clothes and shoes. Inflation decreased to 2.8%, down from a rate of 3% in January, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The latest figures come ahead of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement, where she will set...
Angus Crawford and Tony Smith BBC News Investigations BBC South American drug gangs are dropping cocaine in the sea around the UK to be picked up by smaller boats and brought to shore, Border Force has warned. Tens of millions of pounds worth of drugs are being wrapped in flotation devices equipped with trackers, allowing...