27 minutes ago Man who robbed women at gunpoint in Kensington jailed after DNA breakthrough

Ismail Tajzai, who robbed one women after tying her up and attempted to steal from another who he hit with a gun and strangled, was captured through DNA evidence

Events

45 minutes ago UK banks to shed light on consumer confidence as cheaper mortgages hit market

Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays and NatWest will unveil their third-quarter financial results Wednesday, Thursday and Friday respectively.

Economics

88 minutes ago I have visited North Korea 30 times and seen almost every province, but I'm still not bored of it and would LOVE to return. Here's why...

Zoe Stephens, 30, from Liverpool here shares photos and video footage of the hermit kingdom as well as memories of her time there.

Politics

1 hour ago Inside Olivia Rodrigo's life from Disney days to famous exes as GUTS tour comes to Netflix

Olivia Rodrigo has all but cemented herself as the pop-rock voice of Gen Z with her Grammy-winning hits and now the star is bringing her latest tour to Netflix, but what is there to know about her life off-stage?

Technology

1 hour ago Rugby brain injury lawsuit stuck in legal limbo – and players are still suffering

Push and pull for public opinion between lawyers and rugby authorities rumbles on but where would we be if no one had taken action in the first place?Four years ago, just after the Guardian had first reported that a group of eight rugby union players had been diagnosed with early onset dementia and were planning legal action against the game’s governing bodies, I sat down to a three-way interview with the former Wales international Alix Popham and the forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu. It was Popham’s idea. He had just gone public with his own diagnosis and was planning to launch a charitable foundation to raise awareness about brain health. He had seen the movie about Omalu’s life, Concussion, and wanted to learn more about his story.Omalu describes himself as the man who first identif...

Sport

1 hour ago The Apprentice review – Jeremy Strong is the Trump card in measured biopic of the Donald

The Succession star chills as US lawyer Roy Cohn opposite Sebastian Stan as his grasping protege Donald Trump in Ali Abbasi’s intriguing dramaIt’s not quite an ultra-villain origin story. But nor is Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice in any way a flattering depiction of its subject, the young(ish) Donald Trump (a horribly convincing Sebastian Stan). The film follows Trump’s early journey, starting as “Little Donnie”, the browbeaten second son of an overbearing father who scoffs that his boy “needs all the help he can get”. But, as the film tells it, the young Donald finds a second father figure in the well-connected and widely feared rightwing lawyer Roy Cohn (Succession star Jeremy Strong, bringing his trademark unblinking gimlet intensity to the performance, with chil...

Politics

1 hour ago Shoulder pads! Sex! Scheming! Rivals is autumn’s TV hit — and Bella Maclean is its stand

From Silent Witness to Rivals, the 23 year old is going from strength to strength

Events

1 hour ago One Tree Hill star reveals cult stole her earnings as she opens up on 10 years of 'abuse' and 'fear'

Bethany Joy Lenz, who starred as Haley in teen drama series One Tree Hill, has spoken about the years of ‘abuse’ she suffered as a member of a religious cult during filming of the hit show

Events

2 hours ago ‘Does time heal? I don’t think so’: Richard E Grant on love, loss – and bonking

The raw intensity and personal honesty that Richard E Grant brought to Withnail and I was real and has never left him. Now the actor and diarist, still grieving the loss of his wife, talks openly about heartbreak, ambition and his traumatic upbringingA month before she died, the acclaimed dialect coach Joan Washington recorded a poem to be played on her daughter’s wedding day. Washington died on 2 September 2021 from lung cancer, concluding a 38-year marriage to the actor and diarist Richard E Grant. Olivia, the couple’s daughter, celebrated her marriage this past September at the house Grant and Washington shared in London. Grant wore an elegant tuxedo, his blue eyes startling, and the house was swollen with flowers. His speech included “all the things a father says. You want it to be ...

Politics

4 hours ago How BHP is facing a record London lawsuit over a Brazilian dam disaster

Australian miner is fighting a multi-billion-pound claim brought by about 620,000 alleged victims

Events