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He’s thrown his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris because “the defence of democracy is more important than any title”. The address offered the public their first chance to hear directly from Mr Biden his rationale for dropping out of the 2024 presidential race after weeks of insisting he believed himself to be the best […]
The Tory leadership contest is likely to heat up with more contenders expected to join Tom Tugendhat and James Cleverly in the race. Shadow security minister Mr Tugendhat launched his campaign by indicating he would be prepared to leave the European Convention on Human Rights if it was necessary to secure the UK’s borders. The […]
A police officer has been removed from operational duties following a “truly shocking” video shared on social media which appeared to show a police officer kicking a man lying on the floor at Manchester Airport. The footage, shared on social media, is said to have been filmed at the airport’s terminal two on Tuesday and shows the […]
CrowdStrike is blaming a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off last week’s global tech outage. CrowdStrike also outlined measures it would take to prevent the problem from recurring, including staggering the roll out of updates, giving customers more control over […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lauded United States-Israeli unity and praised President Joe Biden during a fiery speech to Congress. The prime minister’s speech sparked boycotts by some top Democrats and drew thousands of protesters to the Capitol to condemn the war in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis that it has created. Nine months into […]
The battle for the future of the Conservative Party has officially begun as nominations opened in the contest to replace Rishi Sunak. James Cleverly, who was the first Tory leadership hopeful to declare his candidacy and is confident he has the 10 MP backers he requires to enter the race, said the party needs to […]
Sexism and misogyny continue to be on the rise in English football, according to new data published by Kick It Out. Reports of that type of discrimination rose by a further 44 per cent from 80 in 2022-23 to 115 last season, having shot up by over 400 per cent from 2021-22 to 2022-23. The […]
University tuition fees in England should be reduced to £6,000 a year to make post-18 education “more equitable” for students, a think tank has said. The Government should remove the “distortions and biases” in the funding and oversight of post-18 education that favour full-time degrees over other routes, according to an EDSK report. It comes […]
Popular ice creams including Cornetto and Solero have jumped in price by up to 38% in the past two years, a consumer group has found. The biggest price increase Which? discovered was on a six pack of Cornetto strawberry ice cream cones, which rose from £2.57 to £3.55, an increase of 38% between 2022 and […]
David Lammy will push to reset the UK-India partnership on his first trip to the country as Foreign Secretary. He will travel to New Delhi on Wednesday, where he tell his Indian counterpart, minister of external affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, that he wants to “drive forward greater growth” for both countries and reinforce the UK’s commitment […]