82 minutes ago Senior Tories warn against 'blasphemy laws' after Labour MP urges Keir Starmer to ban the 'desecration' of religious texts and abuse of prophets of Christianity, Islam and Judaism

Tahir Ali, MP for Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley, urged action as he cautioned acts of 'mindless desecration' risk fuelling 'division and hatred' within society.

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85 minutes ago TikTok launches MAJOR change to protect young people from 'self esteem' issues

The Chinese company announced the changes, set to come into effect in the coming weeks, at a safety forum at its European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

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88 minutes ago Principal indicted for ‘failing to protect students’ after two teachers arrested for sexual abuse

The indictment, filed in Columbia County Circuit Court, asserts that the principal “did unlawfully and knowingly withhold necessary and adequate physical care from the students of St. Helens High School.”

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91 minutes ago Badenoch suggests final Tory migration policy would be more radical than leaving European convention on human rights – UK politics live

Conservative leader says there needs to be a ‘plan not just a promise’ beyond leaving the ECHRWilliam Hague has achieved a rare Tory election victory; he has won the contest to be Oxford University’s next chancellor.The university has released the figures for the final round of voting, where the winner emerged after the final five candidates were ranked using the alternative vote system. The runner up was Elish Angiolini, the lawyer and academic. Continue reading...

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96 minutes ago Badenoch signals leaving ECHR on the table in new Tory approach to immigration

The Conservative leader said her party would review ‘every policy, treaty and part of our legal framework’ as it sets out a new immigration approach.

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97 minutes ago Starmer and Lammy ‘absolutely clear’ no cash reparations, says Foreign Secretary

The comments come just weeks after the issue dominated the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa.

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97 minutes ago David Lammy says the UK 'will not be making cash payments and transfers to the Caribbean' to apologise for slavery despite nations' demand for trillions of pounds as as reparations

The Foreign Secretary was put on the spot by MPs today over the demand for compensation made by a slew of Commonwealth leaders last month.

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99 minutes ago Fury as Netflix reality star caught trying to smuggle £150,000 of drugs into UK is spared jail...as judge says she 'simply lived beyond her means

Olga Bednarska, 27, was arrested on a flight back from Thailand after customs officers at Manchester Airport caught her with 40kg of cannabis - worth £150,000 - in two large suitcases.

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1 hour ago Claude AI: The new (virtual) assistant who can plan your holidays and code a website

The latest chatbot to hit the market is Anthropic’s response to ChatGPT: a sleeker, more elegant assistant named Claude who could even lay claim to a moral compass

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1 hour ago Green behaviour change is not about telling people what to do – climate advisers

Around 10% of emissions cuts needed for 2035 climate targets come from diet and travel changes – but it is about making it ‘easy’, experts said.

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