84 minutes ago Inside the Lake Como villa that's hosted everyone from Napoleon to George Clooney

It was owned by a Pope and has hosted Napoleon, Churchill and George Clooney. Now this lavish Italian villa has been voted the world's best hotel

Politics

86 minutes ago Amazon's original name was very different and it's left people floored

Amazon is known across the world, its logo instantly recognisable by shoppers. But, when Jeff Bezos founded the company in his garage back in 1994, it had a very different name

Politics

1 hour ago British holidaymaker drowns in Menorca after being swept into sea by huge wave

Residents in a nearby apartment block raised the alarm after seeing the British holidaymaker struggling in the water at Ciutadella Bay in Menorca

Events

1 hour ago Liam Payne's father reads tributes and kisses pictures outside Argentinian hotel where One Direction star died

Liam died after falling from a third-floor balcony of the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires

Events

2 hours ago Mexico navy seizes more than eight tonnes of illicit cargo in record drugs bust

Six boats among impounded assets worth at least $100m off country’s south-west coast, navy says, after arresting 23 peopleMexico’s navy has said it arrested 23 people in its largest-ever drugs bust, seizing over eight tonnes of illicit cargo in an operation off the country’s south-western Pacific coast.“Navy personnel seized 8,361 kilograms of illicit cargo, which represents the largest amount of drugs seized in a maritime operation, unprecedented in history,” a statement from the ministry of the navy said on Friday. Continue reading...

Transport

3 hours ago Tory attack on funding for Africa education shows they're descending towards Trump's crude populism

The state of Scotland’s public services is down to two things: SNP incompetence and Tory austerity – not aid to one of the world’s poorest countries

Events

3 hours ago ‘The case became a witch hunt’: how ‘killer nurse’ Daniela Poggiali fought to clear her name

Italy’s ‘angel of death’ was imprisoned and demonised by the press before her convictions were overturned. Now the expert who came to her defence has turned his attention to Lucy Letby’s case‘It was a terrible sensation when I heard the sentence: life.” It was 11 March 2016 and Daniela Poggiali had just been confirmed as Italy’s “angel of death”. Less than 18 months after she had first been arrested, in October 2014, the nurse was now the country’s most infamous killer, convicted of killing one elderly patient and suspected of dozens of other murders.“I struggled to rationalise it,” she says, “I just thought they were grabbing a crab.” (This is a curious Italian phrase that roughly translates as doing something irrational or idiotic.) Continue reading...

Events

3 hours ago Their son died at 25. Then they discovered his extraordinary secret life online

Robert and Trude Steen assumed their late son led ‘a wasted life’ – until the discovery of his alternate identity as a muscular nobleman on the internet. And it should transform how we talk about digital personas, writes Matthew Neale

Events

3 hours ago State Pension update affecting half a million pensioners who will miss out on rise

A decorated World War Two veteran is one of 500,000 people who don't get the same State Pension uprating as others but she's on a mission to change that

Economics