73 minutes ago Reeves accused of abandoning principles over China in ‘delusional’ bid to save UK economy

Exclusive: Former cabinet minister Sir Iain Duncan Smith said that the chancellor’s trip to Beijing was a desperate move ‘because she has trashed the economy’

Politics

4 hours ago LIZ JONES: It's weird you can have sex in different locations... but men are too scared to do just one simple thing

Candid, confessional, controversial.

Society

3 hours ago Half of people with housing costs ‘starting 2025 worried about home or finances’

Housing charity Shelter and bank HSBC UK are urging those with concerns to seek support.

Economics

30 hours ago AD FEATURE: Get your 2025 off to a spectacular start with tickets to these six Manchester shows

Mark your calendars - there are so many great live experiences to enjoy in the city this year

Sport

2 hours ago Katie Piper reveals decision to be fitted with ‘artificial eye’ 16 years after acid attack

Former model said she had reached ‘end of the road’ after undergoing hundreds of operations

Events

27 hours ago Paris accuses Algeria of trying to humiliate France by refusing to admit a deported influencer

French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has accused Algeria of “trying to humiliate France” after the North African country refused to admit one of its nationals who was being deported

Technology

1 hour ago Reeves accused of ‘operation kowtow’ to China President Xi in ‘delusional’ bid to save UK economy

Exclusive: Former cabinet minister Sir Iain Duncan Smith said that the chancellor’s trip to Beijing was a desperate move ‘because she as trashed the economy’

Politics

24 hours ago LIVE: London and Wall Street sink as US jobs report blows past expectations

LIVE: London and Wall Street sink as US jobs report blows past expectations  Yahoo Finance UK

Society

4 hours ago Reeves doubles down defending China trip as fears over impact of economic crisis grow

Early indications that chancellor will slash disability benefits and delay increases to the defence budget to the 2030s to avoid breaking borrowing rules

Economics

2 hours ago Ons Jabeur: ‘Kids are dying everywhere in Ukraine or Gaza. I have to speak out and use my platform’

Former world No 2 shares her struggles with seeing suffering in Palestine and how she is working with the World Food Programme to help Few players wear their heart on their sleeve as much as Ons Jabeur. The Tunisian, whose sublime skills and smile have lit up the women’s Tour over the past decade, reached the Wimbledon final in 2022 and 2023 and earned herself the nickname Minister of Happiness.But somewhere along the way, Jabeur lost the joy. Keen to start a family, she had told herself that if she won Wimbledon in 2023, that would be the perfect time to take a break. It didn’t happen – she lost to Marketa Vondrousova – and so continued playing. But injuries, illness and the scenes of human suffering in Gaza made her struggle over the past year. Continue reading...

Events

1 hour ago Reeves vows ‘action’ to meet fiscal rules amid rise in borrowing costs

Problems on the gilt markets have overshadowed the Chancellor’s trip to China.

Politics

27 hours ago Spending less time on X (Twitter) has 'vastly improved my mental health', says Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy

The Cabinet minister said that reducing her time on Twitter meant she also better understood ‘what really matters to the country’

Society

4 hours ago Truth about £4.25m Omaze dream mansion: It's the most spectacular house lottery prize EVER. But don't believe everything you see... we expose the serious catches (including the insane running cost)

In just a few weeks a £4.25million Grade II-listed Queen Anne mansion could be yours if you enter the latest Omaze property prize sweepstake. The Mail visited to see if it's as idyllic as it appears.

Economics

2 hours ago Ons Jabeur: ‘Kids are dying everywhere in Ukraine or Gaza. I have to speak out’

Former world No 2 shares her struggles with seeing suffering in Palestine and how she is working with the World Food Programme to help Few players wear their heart on their sleeve as much as Ons Jabeur. The Tunisian, whose sublime skills and smile have lit up the women’s Tour over the past decade, reached the Wimbledon final in 2022 and 2023 and earned herself the nickname Minister of Happiness.But somewhere along the way, Jabeur lost the joy. Keen to start a family, she had told herself that if she won Wimbledon in 2023, that would be the perfect time to take a break. It didn’t happen – she lost to Marketa Vondrousova – and so continued playing. But injuries, illness and the scenes of human suffering in Gaza made her struggle over the past year. Continue reading...

Events

2 hours ago Kemi Badenoch shadow minister rejected calls for mandatory child abuse reporting in 2018

Then-safeguarding minister Victoria Atkins - now a member of Kemi Badenoch's shadow cabinet - said the case for a mandatory reporting duty had "not been made."

Politics

29 hours ago The Big House Multibank campaigns to combat child hygiene poverty in 2025

Amazon supports with the launch of You Buy. We Donate which will donate thousands of hygiene products to local families in need The Big House Multibank is a charity initiative formed by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Amazon, which has donated essential items to over 120,000 families in need across Scotland

Society

8 hours ago Watch live: Rachel Reeves attends economic talks in China as chancellor pledges to make UK ‘better off’

Watch live as Rachel Reeves attends economic talks in China on Saturday (11 January) as the chancellor pledged to make the UK “better off”.

Economics

2 hours ago Syrian intelligence agency says it thwarted a planned Islamic State attack on a Shiite shrine

Intelligence officials in Syria’s new de facto government say they have thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a Shiite shrine in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab

Events

2 hours ago Carrie Johnson spends week in hospital with flu and pneumonia as she becomes latest victim of sickness surge sweeping Britain

The wife of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that she spent the first few days of 2025 at John Radcliffe hospital in Oxfordshire after enduring a 'nasty' chest infection for nearly 18 days.

Politics

14 hours ago 4 money changes in that will affect your bills in the next three weeks

The New Year has brought with it a raft of financial changes that could impact your wallet

Economics

3 hours ago New Orleans attack would’ve had ‘completely different outcome’ if steel barriers were used, inventor says

Peter Whitford says Archer barriers, which the city had stored away, have record of stopping vehicle rammingsThe deadly New Year’s Day truck attack in New Orleans “would have had a completely different outcome” if city officials had put out 700lb (317kg) barriers that they bought years earlier and have a track record of preventing intentional vehicle rammings, the blockades’ inventor has told the Guardian.But the city “did not have a full slate of accessories to help move and deploy” those steel Archer barriers quickly in the way they were designed to be – and how authorities elsewhere have managed to do it, Peter Whitford, the chief executive officer of the Meridian Rapid Defense Group, said in an interview. Continue reading...

Events

3 hours ago What is No Trousers Tube Ride? Bizarre reason you'll see loads of people with no pants on

This weekend marks the annual 'No Trousers Tube Ride' day, which is something that would probably give a nun a heart attack. We take a closer look at the London 'sausage fest' (some may say)

Politics

14 hours ago Rachel Reeves prepares to slash billions of pounds of disability benefits to calm debts crisis

Downing Street is said to believe that significant reductions are needed in the welfare budget, namely from personal independence payments (PIP).

Economics

4 hours ago South Korean plane crash investigation in bombshell twist as black box 'stopped recording'

South Korea's transport ministry revealed on Saturday the black box on the aircraft, which was carrying 179 people, stopped recording just moments before the airliner hit a concrete structure at Maun Airport

Events

15 hours ago Britain's Treasury chief is heading to China to revive suspended economic and financial talks

Britain’s Treasury chief is travelling to China this weekend to discuss economic and financial cooperation between the countries, as the U.K.‘s Labour government seeks to reset frayed ties with Beijing

Economics

5 hours ago Katie Piper shares decision to get artificial eye 16 years after acid attack

The former model has undergone hundreds of surgeries since suffering an acid attack arranged by her ex-boyfriend in March 2008.

Events

5 hours ago Andrew Tate's 'bro politics' is coming for the UK. Should we be worried?

Tech bros and the far right are uniting in an attempt to shake up British politics. How much influence are they really set to have?

Politics

15 hours ago Reeves defiant over China trip in face of growing criticism and economic turmoil

Labour chancellor accused of ‘undesirable’ policies and ‘incompatible promises’

Economics

6 hours ago The world's worst zoo attacks: Horrifying times animals attack visitors and staff INSIDE their enclosures

Feral instincts remain present in a number of these caged beasts, where even the glass screening and metal fencing can not contain their primal urges.

Events

6 hours ago Watch live: Rachel Reeves and Chinese counterpart He Lifeng hold joint news conference after trade meeting

Watch live as Rachel Reeves and her Chinese counterpart He Lifeng hold a joint news conference on Saturday (11 January), following earlier trade meetings.

Politics

15 hours ago Rachel Reeves jets to China for trade talks as economic woes mount at home

Chancellor Rachel Reeves flew to Beijing to bang the drum bang the drum for trade and rebuild ties after years of frosty relations but economic turmoil risked overshadowing the trip

Economics

6 hours ago Indonesia and Japan promise deeper defense and economic ties as regional tensions spike

Japan and Indonesia have pledged to deepen economic and defense ties during a visit by the Japanese prime minister amid heightened global geopolitical tensions

Events

7 hours ago New club join Marcus Rashford race and offer Man Utd transfer trump card

Marcus Rashford's future at Manchester United remains unclear and Monaco have joined the list of clubs chasing the outcasted forward and believe they can offer a strong financial package

Politics

23 hours ago New mortgage rate blow to Britons as Labour's economy is hammered again: Rachel Reeves defies jibes she has 'lost the plot' to head for China

The yield on 10-year gilts rose further to 4.85 per cent this morning, while for 30-year the level was up to 5.41 per cent. And the problems gathered pace at lunchtime.

Economics

6 hours ago Police probe if London bus passenger’s heart attack is linked to how it was driven

Police probe if London bus passenger’s heart attack is linked to how it was driven  The Independent

Events

7 hours ago LIZ JONES: In which the German cancels... until he sees the hotel room

Candid, confessional, controversial

Politics

25 hours ago How Rachel Reeves' debt 'nightmare' has chilling echoes of 1976 when Britain was the 'sick man of Europe' with an economy in crisis that forced it to go 'cap in hand' for £2.3bn bailout

Such is the extent of Britain's current economic troubles, Chancellor Rachel Reeves ' plight has been compared to that of her 1970s predecessor Denis Healey.

Economics

10 hours ago One man dead after being stabbed in ‘targeted attack’ in Melbourne park

Police called after reports of a group of people fighting in Wyndham Vale on FridayGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA man has died after he was ambushed and stabbed during a late-night knife fight at a park in Melbourne’s west.Police were called to reports of a group of people fighting in a park on Haines Drive, Wyndham Vale, about 11.30pm on Friday.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

Events

7 hours ago England’s Lauren Filer: ‘I don’t want to hurt anyone, but to get a few helmets is fun’

The fast bowler says Australia ‘didn’t know who I was’ in the last Ashes but this time around they will be wary of the 24-year-old as she pushes the 80mph barrierIt’s not often that you hear a fast bowler describe themselves as “smiley”, especially not with an Ashes series around the corner. But with days to go until she spearheads England’s attack in Australia, that’s exactly what the 24-year-old Lauren Filer is claiming as her defining characteristic. “I’m a bit too smiley to be the scary fast bowler,” she says. “I tried to stare someone down in South Africa and I laughed because I just couldn’t do it.”Instead, her approach is to “let my bowling do the talking” – as it did, loudly, in last month’s Bloemfontein Test. On the second day Filer sent down two terrifyingly hostile spells with the new ball, reaching speeds of 78mph and twice hitting players on the helmet – an act of aggression rarely seen before in the women’s game. “I don’t want to hurt anyone, but to get a few helm...

Politics

27 hours ago Thousands of military homes brought back into public ownership in £6bn deal

The Ministry of Defence has bought back some 36,347 houses from property firm Annington, reversing the 1996 privatisation process

Economics

11 hours ago Loose Women's Katie Piper shares brave eye surgery 'battle' update in new video

Katie Piper has shared a statement confirming that she's had a prosthetic eye fitted after years of surgery to try and save her real eye after a horrific acid attack

Events

10 hours ago The utterly plausible case that climate change makes London much colder

The utterly plausible case that climate change makes London much colder  Financial Times

Politics

27 hours ago What IS going wrong with the UK economy? How a spike in debt servicing costs threatens to derail Labour as 'Stagflation' fears mount... and Pound is branded the 'Great British Peso'

A major plank of Keir Starmer's pitch at the election was that Labour would bring much-needed stability to the UK economy.

Economics

12 hours ago Streeting: Grooming gangs rhetoric could lead to UK version of NZ mosque attack

One clip of Christchurch terrorist Brenton Tarrant’s ammunition had ‘For Rotherham’ scrawled upon it; an apparent reference to UK grooming gangs.

Events

11 hours ago Footballers with dementia face fresh wait as SNP seek new benefit delay

EXCLUSIVE: Industrial injury benefits are devolved, but SNP Ministers want to allow the DWP to administer the payments beyond 2026.

Politics

27 hours ago FTSE 100 LIVE: London stocks continue to slide as UK borrowing costs rise again

FTSE 100 LIVE: London stocks continue to slide as UK borrowing costs rise again  Yahoo Finance UK

Economics

15 hours ago West Ham: Graham Potter addresses Marcus Rashford transfer link as Hammers suffer fresh injury blow

Niclas Fullkrug’s injury has added to West Ham’s woes in attack

Events

11 hours ago Katie Piper shares video of doctor fitting new eye as she 'reaches the end of the road'

The TV star and campaigner was subjected to a horrific acid attack by an ex-boyfriend which left her blind in one eye but has inspired others in the years since

Politics

27 hours ago I make £1,000 a month as a 'financial dominatrix'. Married lawyer and mother AMANDA CARTER reveals her lucrative secret side

Curled up on the sofa after putting my children to bed, I can feel boredom creeping in. My husband is out for the evening - and wouldn't be much company if he was here, to be honest.

Economics

16 hours ago Every terror attack is sickening, says MI5 head at FBI director’s leaving event

Sir Ken McCallum, who was knighted in the latest New Year Honours, gave a speech at the leaving event for FBI director Christopher Wray on Friday.

Events

18 hours ago Why NOW is the best time to retire in nearly 20 years: A silver lining could boost your pension, says RACHEL RICKARD STRAUS

Someone buying a retirement income today could secure a deal that is a massive 70 per cent higher than if they had bought in 2020, when deals hit a record low.

Politics

32 hours ago Rachel Reeves heads to China as pressure mounts as market turmoil derails government’s economic strategy

The Chancellor has been criticised for continuing with a planned visit to China amid rising yields on government bonds

Economics

16 hours ago Why Britain now needs a Ministry for Civil Defence: Few want to admit it, but we are effectively already at war with Russia, writes Winston Churchill's grandson NICHOLAS SOAMES

Look up. You might imagine that, under a British sky in January, a good old umbrella will keep you safe from the worst that the clouds above can throw at you.

Events

18 hours ago US to return $52.8 million in seized assets linked to Nigeria's former oil minister

The United States will return $52.88 million in seized assets to Nigeria as part of a yearslong corruption probe against former Nigerian oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke and associates

Politics

33 hours ago Rachel Reeves 'to make severe spending cuts' as UK borrowing costs soar

An announcement is expected that could see 5% cuts increased

Economics

17 hours ago Federal probe of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre says 'no avenue' for criminal case in connection to attack

The first-ever U.S. Justice Department review of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre finds there is no longer an avenue to bring a criminal case in association with the attack by a white mob on a thriving Black district

Events

20 hours ago I grieved for Alex Salmond four or five years ago, says Nicola Sturgeon

Ex-first minister says she intervened ‘many times’ to stop her predecessor bullying people

Politics

38 hours ago ANDREW NEIL: The economy's reeling from the disastrous Budget. Taxes or cuts are coming... and the big financial players I've talked to now all say it could spell the end of Labour

In the run-up to the General Election , Rachel Reeves boasted repeatedly of her qualifications for being Chancellor, even liberally embellishing her CV to bolster her credentials.

Economics

17 hours ago Marilyn Manson: A timeline of the allegations against the embattled rock star

Controversial artist is accused of abuse by more than a dozen women

Events

21 hours ago Rachel Reeves presses the flesh with China's communist leaders while Britain's economy 'faces 1970s

The Chancellor posed with Chinese finance minister Lan Fo'an in Beijing as she began her controversial trip to the Asian giant.

Politics

39 hours ago Rachel Reeves' £25bn National Insurance raid could force more than HALF of British businesses to raise prices, damning poll reveals

The figures provide the latest evidence of how firms are scrambling to respond to the tax hike and as the boss of Marks & Spencer said it would be a challenge.

Economics

20 hours ago Nigel Farage says he and Elon Musk are ‘still friends’ after social media attack

The Reform UK leader added that he had spoken to the tech mogul since his comments on X

Events

22 hours ago BORIS JOHNSON: Rachel from Accounts has been rumbled. It's time for her to make her way to HR and collect her P45

There is only one commodity that really matters to the UK economy. It is the one resource upon which the whole country depends - every single one of us. That substance is trust.

Politics

22 hours ago Pensioner killed and eaten by neighbour's pigs in horror Christmas Day attack

The 75-year-old was killed and eaten by pigs at her home in a horrific Christmas Day attack.

Events