Australia’s first home buyers are still taking out loans as property investors step back, data shows
Exclusive: New entrants the only cohort making more loan applications amid interest rate rises and tax changes, mortgage broker saysGet our breaking n...
Former Abercrombie CEO mentally fit for sex-trafficking trial, judge says
Michael Jeffries is ruled mentally competent to stand trial after being hospitalized for months for dementia symptomsThe former CEO of Abercrombie & F...
CrossCountry cancels almost all rail services after power cut hits control centre
Transport secretary asks ‘publicly owned operators to lay on extra services where possible’CrossCountry has cancelled almost all of its train services...
Burnham stays away from No 10 North wedding after bride’s plea
Prime minister sends video message to newlyweds instead after bride Sarah Burwin asked him not to ‘ruin’ vibe at Heron House weddingAndy Burnham fulfi...
Arrest warrant issued for wife of Massachusetts officer found dead at home
Woman remains missing more than five days after police found officer she was married to dead in their homeAn arrest warrant has been issued for a ment...
Double jeopardy? Luigi Mangione state case unlikely to proceed, experts say
Defense files motion to dismiss state case after federal guilty plea but prosecutors say they are prepared to litigateAfter Luigi Mangione admitted in...
Holding election in wartime would risk destroying Ukraine, says Zelenskyy
President sharply criticises proposal, saying ‘elections right now are a tsunami for the state that will split Ukraine’Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said ho...
Burnham to face pressure at Labour conference to recognise Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide
Grassroot groups preparing to put pressure on PM to break with Starmer policy and impose full arms embargo on IsraelGrassroot Labour groups are gearin...
Pine-cone grenades and planet-baking carbon: the French fires 170 years in the making – a visual guide
An 1857 decree to drain swamps and plant a monoculture, detritus from the trees and global heating combined to produce the conditions for the Gironde ...
Personal care products are awash in unlabeled toxic chemicals, study finds
Even products labeled ‘eco’, ‘green’ or ‘natural’ can contain dangerous compounds including PfasCommon personal care products widely contain unlabeled...
Manuscript fragments hiding in plain sight shed light on medieval Guernsey’s literary life
Researchers say texts from 12th to 15th centuries ‘hint at a culture which has not even been imagined’Unprecedented insights into the literary and int...
‘No more!!!’: Trump lashes out after US-Canada talks devolve into trade war
PM Mark Carney says ‘we got attacked’ as tariffs come into force on items from hockey sticks to tongue depressorsDonald Trump has hit back at Canada a...
Russia withdraws ambassador to UK as Kremlin ratchets pressure over Ukraine support
Andrey Kelin left last month after seven years in diplomatic postRussia has withdrawn its ambassador to the UK, it has emerged, as the Kremlin continu...
Against the wind: despite Trump’s attacks, unions are fighting for good US clean energy jobs
Since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, a growing labor movement has addressed the climate crisis and economic inequalityRyan McElroen had spent years repairin...
Artemis II crew to receive top US space medal for historic lunar journey
Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen broke record for farthest distance traveled from EarthThe crew of the historic Artemis I...
‘I hate Democrats, but I love Abdul’: voters who left over Gaza return for progressive push
Michigan Senate nominee and others have re-energized one-time Democratic voters who abandoned the party under BidenTwo years ago, Zainab Bibi Ahmed th...
Trump laying groundwork to impose national emergency by sowing election distrust
President’s speech, declassification of documents and heightened claims of noncitizen voting have experts concernedA series of moves by Donald Trump’s...
Iran-linked hackers blamed for cyber-attack that shut down UK power plant
Incident marks apparent escalation by Tehran in its in retaliation against UK over allowing US to use British basesHackers linked to Iran have been bl...
‘The line’s running half-empty’: Llanwern steelworks feels the heat from cheap steel imports
New quotas to protect UK firms and jobs appear to be having opposite effect in products such as galvanised steelAt Tata Steel’s factory in Llanwern, s...
‘These were brave officers’: tributes paid to Cleveland police killed in A66 crash
Redcar MP says Teesside community is ‘reeling’ as PM offers condolences and asks public to avoid speculationTributes are being paid to two police offi...
London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?
Similar initiatives have been launched from Barcelona to Bogotá, but they have misinformation, political pressure and vested interests stacked against...
UK orders reviews of franchising sector after Vodafone allegations
Two studies will be used to shape government policy amid claims about a former franchisee who took his own life Ministers have commissioned a pair of...
First Bus bans under-16s in Stoke-on-Trent travelling alone after 6pm after disorder
Company says decision comes after spate of antisocial behaviour since free travel scheme was introducedFor some, it is a quotidian nuisance that inevi...
Nine out of 10 unsolved murders in London linked to non-white victims
Exclusive: analysis risks deepening perception of ‘unequal protection under the law’ Killers who take the lives of black people have a greater chance ...
‘Friday afternoon fraud’: warning for UK homebuyers on bank scams
Victims have lost tens of thousands – and in one case £300,000 – due to fake emails from solicitor or estate agentYou are poised to move house and are...
Onshore windfarm applications hit 10-year high in England
Surge in proposals follows Labour’s lifting of de facto ban, with about 45 plans submitted in the year to MarchPlans for new onshore windfarms in Engl...
Burnham expected to give mayors new powers over local planning decisions
Move would allow mayors to greenlight large-scale developments and have more say on national housing fundingAndy Burnham is expected to give mayors ne...
British corporation continued trafficking of enslaved Africans to Guyana 40 years after abolition
Letter written in 1847 to Sandbach, Tinne and Company’s Liverpool office reveals it engaged in practice after receiving taxpayer-funded compensation, ...
Liberal plan to split Victorian appeals court attacked as ‘thought bubble’ that would politicise judiciary
Opposition leader Jess Wilson says new dedicated court of criminal appeal would set precedents for tougher sentencesGet our breaking news email, free ...
The ‘ordinary’ woman accused of assassinating a Russian commander in Crimea
Friends close to Margarita Reutt are shocked she could allegedly plant bomb that killed Ukrainian defector Robert Shageev, while others recall a stubb...
