Revealed: David Walliams accused of using celebrity status to prey on young women for sex
Guardian reports accusations after court rejects legal attempt to prevent publication. Walliams denies any wrongdoingRead the full investigation: ‘It ...
Oil price relief as Trump declares US war on Iran ‘ending fairly soon’ | First Thing
Speaking in the White House, the president said the US remained ‘locked and loaded’ but escalation was not needed. Plus how Grand Theft Auto became a ...
Pete Hegseth to hold news briefing as he faces possible impeachment – US politics live
Anti-Trump Republican Thomas Massie pursuing measures against defense secretary as Iran war blamed for party’s sweeping midterm lossesRepublican Thoma...
Brand barrister’s cross-examination of victims shocking and depressing, says Labour deputy
Lucy Powell says she thought ‘we’d gone past that sort of culture’, and that she regrets setting up Miliband interview with comedian in 2015Russell Br...
David Jones’s finances were reviewed and restructuring flagged months before it fell into administration
Department store group kept buying new products and fell months behind in payments to some brands despite discussions with administratorsGet our break...
Oil prices fall to lowest since August as Trump says Iran war is ‘effectively over’
FTSE 100 and other markets climb after president downplays prospect of further strikes in Middle EastBusiness live – latest updatesOil prices have fal...
US, Russia and Ukraine hold trilateral talks aimed at ending war – Europe live
Talks in Abu Dhabi are first substantive negotiations in months focusing on ending the conflict which has raged for more than four yearsDonald Trump h...
Badenoch lays out £36bn Tory welfare cut plan and defends slashing disability benefits – UK politics live
Conservative leader insists ‘double amputees run marathons’ as she launches Welfare That Works policy documentGood morning. It is quite easy for polit...
Disgraced former leader Sheikh Hasina plans return to Bangladesh after two years in exile
Hasina fled to India in 2024 after mass uprising. She faces death penalty upon returnSheikh Hasina is “confident” she will return to Bangladesh in Dec...
Britons stockpiling water and food tins but not panic buying, figures show
Shoppers appear to have taken government’s Be Ready campaign seriously, retail analysts sayBusiness live – latest updatesBritish shoppers have been st...
Viktor Orbán’s brother detained in people-smuggling investigation, Hungarian PM says
Arrest made by anti-corruption body set up to investigate alleged graft during former PM’s 16-year ruleHungarian authorities have detained the brother...
Cop31 live: slight drop in fossil fuel emissions revealed as conference enters second day
UN climate summit prepares to host world leaders from more than 90 countries tomorrowGood morning from Turkey and welcome to the second day of Cop31, ...
Grenades, grief and a deepening political divide: five takeaways from Sonia Gandhi’s new memoir
From the assassinations of her husband and mother-in-law to press stonewalling under Modi, Belonging offers an insider’s account of India’s political ...
Nvidia and Jensen Huang sued by shareholders over affair with alleged Chinese spy
Legal action comes as Donald Trump says FBI is investigating tech company CEO’s links with Alice HuangBusiness live – latest updatesNvidia’s board nee...
Author Jojo Moyes among UK travellers at risk of EU ban amid digital border system glitches
Errors in entry and exit records leave some Britons wrongly flagged as having overstayed post-Brexit 90-day limitEU sues IBM and two European firms ov...
US reportedly evacuated aircraft from RAF Mildenhall over Iran threat
The reported evacuation comes weeks after the US withdrew bombers from RAF Fairford over a suspected Iran-linked security incident The US military eva...
New Knesset speaker could be key to ousting Netanyahu as Israel’s PM
Opposition politicians get first chance to take control of levers of power, even as they struggle to form governmentIsrael’s new Knesset will be sworn...
EU manufacturers could give up on competing with China by 2030, warns commerce chief
Jens Eskelund says Europe may need to allow its companies to become part of Chinese firms’ supply chainsEurope’s manufacturers could give up on attemp...
Young people in UK hit by ‘low-gear economy’, warns Bank of England deputy
Exclusive: Iran war has fuelled energy price rise and clouded outlook, driving up unemployment, says Clare LombardelliYoung people in Britain are bear...
Mortgage holders’ confidence crashes to lowest level since 1994 as year that ‘feels like a recession’ looms
Westpac survey results signal growing sense of ‘helplessness’ while Jim Chalmers faces growing pressure to rein in spendingConfidence among mortgaged ...
US officials seek ‘final end’ to Russia-Ukraine war as Abu Dhabi talks begin
First substantive peace talks since February to include US proposal for ‘long-term security architecture’ between Moscow and EuropeUS officials said t...
Sydney private school accused of sexual abuse should be banned from enrolling new students, inquiry says
Inquiry recommends NSW police investigate allegations of sexual assault and other abuse at Redeemer Baptist schoolA probe into a private religious sch...
One Nation dumps Victorian election candidate who praised Adolf Hitler as ‘GOAT’
Party disendorses Preston candidate Franco Guardiani after social media posts emergeOne Nation Victoria has disendorsed a candidate whose private soci...
California voters fail to pass proposed one-time tax on billionaires’ wealth
Campaign over Prop 40, as measure was known, was most expensive in state history, flush with Silicon Valley dollarsCalifornia billionaires won a conte...
Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence ‘going rogue’
Government flags criminal law changes to ensure companies can’t argue in future ‘that someone didn’t know the computer was loaded’OpenAI won’t face cr...
Police investigate as nearly 30 Santa Barbara half-marathon runners fall ill with ‘unusual symptoms’
Runners seek medical treatment as 13-mile race held amid unusually high November temperaturesPolice in southern California are investigating the circu...
Qantas to cut 850 Australian jobs and outsource work to India under AI-driven overhaul
Australian carrier announces agreement with Accenture amid ‘unprecedented’ technological disruption, CEO Vanessa Hudson says Qantas is preparing to cu...
Teenager who planned terror attack in Sydney tells court he was radicalised online and used AI to strategise
Boy says he was first exposed to extremist material on TikTok, turned to Telegram and YouTube for bomb-making instructions, and used ChatGPT to devise...
Senate advances bill to speed up permit reviews for infrastructure projects
Chamber voted 73-25 to formally take up bill that will shorten timelines to start energy and datacenter projectsThe Senate on Monday advanced bipartis...
Beau Lamarre-Condon denies being ‘obsessed’ with Jesse Baird as evidence to double murder trial continues
Former police officer tells jury he joked about being ‘white girl crazy’ with friends as lawyer questions him over start of relationship with BairdBea...
