51 minutes ago Starmer ‘shares public’s anger’ as prisoners pictured leaving prison early

Around 1,100 inmates are expected to be freed in a second wave of early releases under the Government’s policy to free up prison space.

Events

59 minutes ago One of the rarest species of whale in the world sees population increase

Conservationists called on shipping and fishing industries to do more to bring the animals back from the brink of extinction

Politics

75 minutes ago Liam Payne shows off his dance moves as he messes around with his band members in resurfaced snaps from early One Direction video shoot

Pictures from the early days of One Direction have resurfaced as Liam Payne showed off his dance moves on set of one of their first music videos. 

Culture

75 minutes ago Fact check: Wastewater reforms set to target companies, not individual homes

Government plans to tackle issue of sewage discharges without increasing taxation based on effluent flow meter readings.

Events

75 minutes ago Elon Musk is trying to buy the US election for Donald Trump. What does he want in return? | Arwa Mahdawi

Billionaire funding is flooding into the ex-president’s campaign. If he wins, will we see prisons on Mars and Taylor Swift shot into space?Welcome to The Maga Millions: a thrilling new contest in which you can win a million bucks if you help a billionaire buy an election. As 5 November draws closer, Elon Musk has decided to try out some interesting – and possibly illegal – tactics to get his pal Donald Trump back into the White House.First up: cash payments. On Saturday, Musk announced that “America Pac”, his pro-Trump political action committee, will give away $1m every day until the election to a randomly selected signatory to his petition supporting free speech and gun rights. He had previously offered to pay registered voters in swing states – and only registered voters in swing sta...

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77 minutes ago Black Box Diaries review – inside the remarkable events that triggered Japan’s #MeToo movement

Japanese journalist Shiori Itō tells how she pursued her rape case against a prominent TV executive This is the remarkable story of Japanese journalist Shiori Itō, who waived a legal right to anonymity to pursue her rape case against prominent TV news executive Noriyuki Yamaguchi. The film gives us fly-on-the-wall video footage of her embattled life as she prepared her legal case and later as she wrote her memoir of the events, Black Box, named after the closed files on her case: the black boxes.As a young journalism intern in 2015, she had turned up for what she thought would be a career-help chat with Yamaguchi. She was confused and uncomfortable to find it was at a bar where turning down his hospitality would be impolite; she became drunk and says she regained consciousness in a hote...

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89 minutes ago Fury at 'greedy' water firms 'sucking the dregs' out of customers amid fears Ofwat will cave to demands for hikes of up to 84% on bills

Updated figures published by Ofwat have revealed the massive scale of increases firms want to impose.

Economics

1 hour ago Odyssey passengers complain of horrendous smell after toilets stopped flushing at start of cruise

The water and flushing issues have since been fixed onboard the Odyssey

Politics

1 hour ago As a top City boss, I see so many workers dress appallingly for the office

Senior Labour politicians have been pilloried for accepting thousands of pounds from donors for new clothes. I get it, but I don't think their behaviour was entirely bad. Hear me out.

Economics

2 hours ago Yellen says isolationism 'made America and the world worse off' in speech to global finance leaders

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is telling world financial leaders that the U.S. economy has grown stronger because the Biden administration rejected isolationism, offering a barely veiled criticism of former President Donald Trump’s policies two weeks before the U.S. election

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