2 hours ago 100 days of miserabilism: How can Labour get out of its Budget mess? asks SIMON LAMBERT

Mystifyingly, Starmer and Reeves decided their first 100 days and budget plan would ditch much-needed optimism and now they have painted themeselves further into a corner.

Politics

2 hours ago Liam Payne: A teenager thrust into global boyband mania before solo fame

Liam Payne formed part of one of The X Factor’s biggest success stories with One Direction

Politics

3 hours ago A German in charge of England? Nationality matters less than it used to in international soccer

England’s national team will have a foreign coach for the third time after hiring German Thomas Tuchel

Politics

4 hours ago Labour must avoid killing off 'green shoots' of economic recovery with high business taxes

As inflation hits lowest level for more than three years, an interest rate cut that would boost investment looms

Economics

5 hours ago EU’s weak or distracted governments make unity of purpose hard to achieve

Leaders can only spend limited political capital on Euro initiatives while weighed down by domestic troublesIt has become a wry joke in Brussels that the most stable country in the EU is Italy, once infamous for its succession of short-lived governments.France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Olaf Scholz have been humbled by punishing electoral defeats. Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, presides over a minority government in a country riven by division after a controversial amnesty bill. In Poland, Donald Tusk enjoys a much stronger position, but grapples with an unwieldy coalition and an opposition-allied president. Continue reading...

Politics

6 hours ago Amazon delivery driver is seen threatening to shoot and kill customer and his dog in chilling surveillance cam

An unidentified Amazon delivery driver was caught on doorbell security camera footage threatening to shoot and kill a customer and his dog.

Events

8 hours ago After One Direction, Liam Payne was just getting started. His death is a heartbreaking end | Alexis Petridis

The singer and songwriter helped reinvent the boyband. His life and career have been cut far too shortGallery: Liam Payne – a life in picturesLiam Payne, former One Direction singer, dies aged 31If a quarter of a century of reality TV talent shows has taught us anything, it’s that success in them is seldom a guarantee of lasting fame: more often than not, the celebrity is fleeting, and confined to the country of the show’s origin.You might have predicted that outcome for One Direction. Simon Cowell claimed to have thrown the band together “in 10 minutes” from solo contestants who had failed to progress any further than the bootcamp stage of the 2010 UK X Factor – despite the fact that one of them, the Wolverhampton-born Liam Payne, had at one stage been tipped to win the series for his ...

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9 hours ago Liam Payne: A teenager thrust into global boyband mania before solo artist fame

He formed part of one of The X Factor’s biggest success stories – One Direction.

Culture

9 hours ago A man has been charged with murder in connection with an Alabama shooting that left 4 dead

Authorities say a man has been charged in a mass shooting that left four people dead and more than a dozen wounded in the city of Birmingham, Alabama, last month

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