69 m. ago Revealed: The £300m Australian tycoon cashing in on controversial Epping asylum hotel while making millions from taxpayer

The controversial asylum hotel in Epping is boosting the fortune of an Australian tycoon worth £300m - who was previously at the helm of the Bibby Stockholm migrant barge.

Economics

75 m. ago Watchdog questions millions spent each year on shuttered US Embassy in Venezuela

The U.S. government employs a sizable staff of 150 Venezuelans and spends upward of $6.7 million annually for upkeep of the shuttered American embassy and other diplomatic properties in Caracas, despite having broken relations with President Nicolás Maduro’s government in 2019

Economics

2 h. ago AstraZeneca's £200m blow to Labour as pharma giant scraps major investment

Hours after official figures showed output from the pharmaceuticals industry in the UK fell 4.5 per cent in July, Britain's biggest firm said the project at its research site has been 'paused'.

Economics

3 h. ago Arthur Fery makes winning Davis Cup debut as Great Britain take charge in Poland

The 23-year-old, a late addition to the line-up, helped Leon Smith’s team take a 2-0 lead in Gdynia.

Politics

3 h. ago US urged UK to offer a better deal on drug pricing to pharma companies

Ambassador’s meeting with chancellor Rachel Reeves came days before AstraZeneca and Merck shelved projects in Britain

Economics

4 h. ago Britain's crumbling museums spent £29m on repairs as taxpayers help cover bill

London’s Victoria and Albert, Tate Galleries and Imperial War Museum had to fork out the eyewatering sum to keep their buildings safe for visitors, the Mirror can reveal

Economics

5 h. ago Britain’s biggest company AstraZeneca pauses £200m investment into Cambridge site

The investment had been set to create 1,000 jobs

Economics

6 h. ago Trump administration destroys $10 million of contraceptives bought by USAID for low

The Trump administration reportedly had offers to buy the contraceptives at no cost to the U.S. taxpayer, which it did not accept

Politics

7 h. ago Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book is a horrifying document | Moira Donegan

Conspiracy theorists wonder about what Epstein and his powerful friends may have done to cover up his crimes. But they barely were covered upJeffrey Epstein had a lot of friends. When his girlfriend-cum-assistant and convicted fellow sex trafficker, Ghislane Maxwell, set out to compile letters, drawings and well wishes from friends in celebration of the pedophile financier’s 50th birthday in 2003, the resulting scrapbook was 238 pages long. The book, titled The First 50 Years, included letters from prominent well-wishers such as former president Bill Clinton and the Bear Stearns executives James Cayne and Alan Greenberg, as well as from the late Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling scout and Epstein’s fellow pedophilic rapist.The lawyer and longtime Epstein friend Alan Dershowitz contributed a mock cover of the magazine Vanity Fair, which was working on a profile of Epstein at the time; Peter Mandelson, until this week the UK ambassador to the United States, wrote that Epstein was “my...

Culture

7 h. ago ‘It’s silent but does the heavy lifting’: the soft power of the white shirt

The white shirt speaks of formality without trying too hard and is making a comeback on the catwalk and on screenVictoria Beckham has positioned herself as a pop star, mother, perfumier, TikToker and fashion designer. But whatever job next month’s Netflix documentary focuses on – details are scant, but it’s thought the early October series will end at her Paris catwalk show – she will always be scrutinised over how she looks. How to temper that? Wear a plain white shirt.The documentary poster released this week shows Beckham wearing a diamond tennis bracelet, open-collar white shirt – and nothing else. Last week, the Princess of Wales appeared in public at the Natural History Museum, also in a plain white shirt. Earlier this month, the Duchess of Sussex launched her Netflix series in a white shirt (one of seven in fact), and when Taylor Swift recently announced her new album she did so wearing a white shirt. Laura Dern wore hers twice at the Venice film festival, and the woman with ...

Events

7 h. ago Steven Spielberg celebrates 'awesome' 50th anniversary 'Jaws' exhibition at Academy Museum

“Jaws” is the subject of the first ever large-scale exhibit devoted to a single film at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles

Culture

7 h. ago 'I went to Benidorm and the streets looked much different to how I imagined'

Bride-to-be Lauren Loughney travelled to Benidorm where conditions in the Alicante region left her bewildered as holidaymakers ran for cover during her epic hen-do

Politics

7 h. ago ‘For years I believed I was someone I wasn’t after sperm donor error’

Nat Allbut spent years thinking he knew who his father was – now he’s one of dozens to be told the sperm donor details they were given were wrong

Politics

8 h. ago Water bosses ban Trump ally billionaire for sucking up Britain's water supply for lake

Britain’s drippiest water bosses have banned a billionaire ally of Donald Trump from using the UK’s supply to fill his lake

Politics

8 h. ago Met Office issues fresh verdict on prospect of Storm Amy as weather warning expanded

A wind warning issued earlier this week has been expanded to cover much of the country

Events

8 h. ago Israeli strikes on Yemen's Houthi rebels damage residential homes, forcing families to live in ruins

Israel’s deadly airstrikes this week targeting Iran-backed rebels in Yemen have damaged residential areas in the country’s capital of Sanaa, leaving many houses in ruins and residents unable to afford repairs on their own

Society

8 h. ago ‘Print has become more powerful than ever’: Edward Enninful launches new magazine

Former British Vogue editor has mined his starry contacts book for first issue of 72, with Julia Roberts on the coverEighteen months after he wrapped up his tenure at British Vogue with a final issue featuring 40 famous women on the cover, Edward Enninful is back on newsstands.On Friday he released the debut issue of 72 magazine, a quarterly print title. It is the first project from Enninful’s new venture EE72, a media and entertainment company he set up in May with his sister, the talent agent Akua Enninful. On the magazine’s masthead Edward Enninful is credited as chief creative officer, cementing his pivot from editor to entrepreneur. Continue reading...

Events

9 h. ago Good Morning Britain stars in uproar after ITV budget cuts closes canteen

The GMB presenters are among the ITV staff who are said to have been told that their new studios wouldn't have a canteen as the show relocates to the ITN studios.

Politics

10 h. ago Ranvir Singh 'shows her state of mind' in stunning high street midi that's now on sale

Good Morning Britain presenter Ranvir Singh showed off an outfit that had her feeling conflicted this week as she 'showed her state of mind' - and you can shop her exact dress for less

Politics

10 h. ago New specialist clinic aims to give better access to advanced genetic testing

It comes as scores of people in the region face travel to Great Britain in hopes of finding a diagnosis.

Politics