Andy Burnham announces new homes scheme for first-time buyers
Exclusive: Policy initiative for England will help more young people on to property ladder, prime minister tells GuardianA new help-to-buy scheme aime...
Ranulph Fiennes’ stepson appeals for funds to ‘locate and safeguard’ the explorer
Alexander Millington-Cotes is concerned for welfare of the 82-year-old, who hasn’t been seen in public for two yearsThe stepson of Sir Ranulph Fiennes...
US strikes on Ecuadorian fishing boats raise humanitarian concerns but Trump admin not wavering
Attorney says fishers ‘losing their livelihoods’, but Marco Rubio maintains US still willing to ‘blow up ships if need be’While the US secretary of st...
Pope Leo celebrates open-air mass before 700,000 people in Paris
Crowds line Place de la Concorde on second day of pontiff’s first official papal visit to France in 18 yearsHundreds of thousands of people lined the ...
California man charged in the killing of his ex-wife – two decades after she vanished
Authorities discovered a body hidden in a home’s crawlspace in 2020, 13 years after Jill Maiorca disappearedA man was recently charged in California w...
Jill Dando murder: technological advances allow police to review CCTV 27 years later
37-year-old BBC broadcaster was shot in 1999 in case detectives have previously said may never be solvedTechnological advances are allowing police to ...
Pennsylvania measles outbreak spreads, with 55 new cases reported since Wednesday
173 people hospitalized and four deaths in state so far, with less than 1% of those infected having been vaccinatedThe Pennsylvania department of heal...
Power outages and flooded roads as major storm bears down on US north-east
Thousands already without without power as New Jersey, Massachusetts, Delaware and New York brace for nor’easterMore than 70,000 customers were withou...
New research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer
Paper raises questions about safety of food and other products as early onset breast cancer rates surge worldwideNew research has identified at least ...
Angela Rayner stands by attack on care worker visa reforms ahead of Labour conference
Housing secretary says Home Office moved goalposts with ‘disruptive’ change to permanent residence rulesAngela Rayner has stood by her criticism of Ho...
Venezuelan shot by ICE in Austin needs surgery to avoid losing feeling in body, supporters say
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez has bullet lodged in back as accounts differ over events leading to traffic-stop shootingThe Venezuelan man shot by federal...
Green shoots? Burnham cultivates rural links in attempt to ‘build back trust’ with farmers
Ministers have been speaking to farming activists to try to build bridges after relations were soured by the tax changes introduced under Keir Stamer ...
UN adds 61 companies to settlements blacklist over alleged Palestinian human rights violations
Human rights council names and shames businesses with ties to illegal Israeli settlements in West BankThe UN human rights office has added 61 more com...
Work intensifying on UK laws to stamp out concert ticket touts, say sources
Artists including Tinie Tempah and the Smiths’ drummer Mike Joyce ramp up pressure on government to keep its pledge to outlaw for-profit resalesThe go...
We followed five people in Gaza from dawn to dusk – this is what the headlines don’t tell us
Behind the stories of bombings and mass deaths, the everyday challenges facing Palestinians living under siege portray a quieter tragedy we rarely hea...
Thomas Jefferson letter goes on the market – containing a prescient warning for Trump today
Third US president wrote in 1787 about importance of peace, paying off debt and supporting agricultureA remarkably prescient letter written by Thomas ...
Trump reportedly rejects Iran’s seven-day peace deal to reopen strait of Hormuz
Tehran awaits official response to plan, but US president is said to expect renewed strikes after midtermsIran is awaiting an official US response to...
Severely disabled young people should get fast-track access to benefits, Milburn says
Alan Milburn said 16- to 24-year-olds with most complex needs should not have to keep proving they cannot workYoung people whose complex disabilities ...
Three-quarters of UK’s popular plug-in hybrid cars unable to use rapid chargers
Only 26% of PHEVs sold across top 20 models can use chargers with power of 50kW or more, analysis findsThree-quarters of the 20 top-selling plug-in hy...
Lula bans fixed-odds sports betting a week before Brazilian elections
President’s ‘hard, drastic and necessary measure’, likely to attract widespread public support, polls suggestBrazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da ...
Rare sale of David Hockney painting of beloved dog Stanley could fetch £2.5m
Exclusive: Dog Painting 17 is believed to be one of only six of works from Dog Series in private hands and first to be auctionedDavid Hockney adored h...
‘I felt shame’: former BA worker locked in legal battle after losing job of 30 years
Cabin crew worker was among thousands of staff laid off during pandemic in what MPs called a ‘national disgrace’During a 30-year career as a member of...
‘The weaker he gets, the more dangerous he gets’: Trump lashes out as his power wanes
Trump tries to dominate at the UN as his approval ratings plummet and even some Republicans stray from the scriptDonald Trump stood before the United ...
Labour must reunite progressive voters to win the next election, says Lucy Powell
The deputy leader wants the party to take advantage of a split on the right and not be embarrassed to show its valuesLabour must “reunite the progress...
Drones could speed up getting defibrillators to people having cardiac arrests, study suggests
New research suggests the technology could be used to increase out-of-hospital access to life-saving devicesDrones could help cut the time it takes to...
Files could have seismic consequences for online casinos, including those accused of illegally targeting consumersThe secrets of thousands of online c...
The tricky tests awaiting Andy Burnham after Labour conference
From a difficult economic landscape to decisions on oil and gas drilling, welfare spending and the Chagos Islands, we look at what’s on the horizonAnd...
Schoolchildren without smartphones penalised with higher bus fares
Despite guidance keeping mobile phones out of England’s schools, cheaper travel may only be available via an appSchoolchildren who do not own smartpho...
‘Let’s tell the truth’: Smithsonian head given standing ovation as he hits back at Trump attacks
Outgoing secretary Lonnie Bunch rejects claims the institution is unpatriotic, telling audience ‘You cannot understand all without illuminating the d...
TikTok to pay Alabama $100m and limit teenage use in first state settlement
Trial had been set for Monday over claims by Alabama that TikTok misled parents about tools meant to shield children from harmful contentTikTok has ag...
