BBC Nato leaders including President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer are meeting to agree a big increase in defence spending, but nearly a third of the alliance’s members have not reached the existing spending target. The new target will be to spend 5% of the size of their economies, measured by GDP, on “core...
Millions of people in Israel and Iran are bracing for an escalation in fighting between the two countries after Israel launched a wave of strikes overnight. Israel’s military said it had hit multiple nuclear sites, and killed top Iranian commanders. Local media reported a number of drones launched by Iran in response were successfully intercepted....
“You don’t talk about the egg before the hen has laid it.” Football managers are forever finding creative ways to divert questions and manage expectations – and Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner delivered this unusual answer when asked about the prospect of winning the club’s first ever major trophy. The 50-year-old Austrian, whose side face...
The cup final against Palace will be one last Wembley appearance with City for midfielder Kevin de Bruyne, with the 33-year-old Belgium international leaving the club on a free transfer in the summer when his contract expires. De Bruyne has won six Premier League titles, the Champions League, two FA Cups and the League Cup...
Lyndon Dykes hopes to return from injury in time for Scotland’s June friendlies against Iceland and Liechtenstein. The Birmingham City striker has been out since February with a calf problem, missing the club’s run-in as English League One champions. The 29-year-old won the last of his 42 caps in November’s win away to Poland in...
Israel’s military says it has hit Houthi targets in Yemen in response to the group’s missile launch at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport the previous day. The IDF said it attacked sites that it claimed served as a “central supply source for the Houthis” in the Hudaydah Port, as well as the Bajil cement factory east...
The UK has launched air strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen for the first time since Donald Trump returned to the White House. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoon fighter jets, working with the US military, hit a “cluster of buildings” used by the Houthis to manufacture attack drones. The...
The US military says it has hit more than 800 targets since launching sustained air and naval strikes against the Houthi movement in Yemen on 15 March. In a statement on Sunday summarising recent operations, US Central Command said it had “killed hundreds of Houthi fighters and numerous Houthi leaders”. Washington has said it is...
Exeter City manager Gary Caldwell says his side are capable of a top-half finish in League One. The Grecians have lost just two of their past 11 games – to second-placed Wrexham and fourth-placed Stockport County – and are 15th in League One, three points off 12th-placed Lincoln City. They face relegation-threatened Burton Albion and...
Exeter City manager Gary Caldwell has challenged his players to pull off the “fantastic achievement” of surpassing their points total from last season. The Grecians head into a West Country derby at Bristol Rovers on Saturday free of relegation fears, with a 10-point gap to the bottom four, but Caldwell wants his players to lift...
Sony The Beatles will be played on screen by Harris Dickinson (John Lennon), Paul Mescal (Paul McCartney), Barry Keoghan (Ringo Starr) and Joseph Quinn (George Harrison) The Fab Four came together on stage this week for an all-star Beatles announcement that left some of the internet swooning. No, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and...
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, which operates more than 20 museums and research centres visited by millions yearly in Washington DC and New York City. The order directs the vice-president to “eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology” from the institute’s museums, centres and the National Zoo in...