3 h. ago Labour's big idea is ID cards for ALL: Blair wanted them years ago and now

Keir Starmer told the Cabinet he would be 'exploring options around digital ID' as part of a wider package of reforms designed to make it harder for illegal migrants to live and work in this country.

Politics

6 h. ago Mystery after a Northwestern professor left her home for a walk on Labor Day and never returned

The professor left her home on Monday without a phone, officials said

Society

6 h. ago Dead Man’s Wire review – Gus Van Sant calls the shots with surreal true

Venice film festivalAl Pacino, Colman Domingo and Myha’la excel in this gripping take on the events of 1977 when an Indianapolis businessman held his mortgage broker hostage With terrific chutzpah, black-comic flair and cool, cruel unsentimentality, screenwriter Austin Kolodney and director Gus Van Sant have made a true-crime suspense thriller set in the 1970s, tapping into the spirit of both Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon and Network. Apart from anything else, it is a reminder that in that post-Kennedy, post-Watergate age, plenty of lawless and febrile things happened that would now be considered phenomena purely attributable to social media.In 1977, an Indianapolis businessman named Tony Kiritsis, with many acquaintances in the police department, kidnapped a mortgage broker named Richard Hall, and tied Hall’s neck with a “dead man’s wire” to his shotgun, which would therefore go off if police sharpshooters tried to kill him. Kiritsis even paraded his victim like this on TV while...

Events

6 h. ago ‘Extremely bizarre’: Florida man ran over his date after she refused to allow him to smell her feet, police say

Investigators say 28-year-old Elmoncy Sercle met the woman through a dating app and invited her to the hotel

Events

7 h. ago Bake Off’s biggest scandals from Prue’s spoiler blunder to Paul Hollywood ‘affair’ drama

The Great British Bake Off may look sweet on the surface, but behind the cakes lies a history of walkouts, betrayals, and on-set scandals that have stirred up just as much drama as the competition itself

Events

7 h. ago Jessica Pegula sweeps past Barbora Krejcikova and into US Open semi

American into last four after 6-3, 6-3 win over world No 62Pegula to face either Sabalenka or VondrousovaJessica Pegula continues to redraw the limits of her career in New York. The 31-year-old American swept into the last four of the US Open on Tuesday with a 6-3, 6-3 dismissal of Barbora Krejcikova, becoming the first woman to reach back-to-back semi-finals here without dropping a set since Serena Williams strung together four straight runs between 2011 and 2014.It was a performance of cool authority, built less on fireworks than on persistence and precision. Pegula needed only 86 minutes to subdue her opponent, whose serve collapsed under pressure with seven double faults and a first-serve percentage barely above 40%. Where Krejcikova unravelled, Pegula stayed the course, drawing energy from a nearly full Arthur Ashe Stadium that sensed they were watching a home contender gather momentum. Continue reading...

Politics

8 h. ago Shirley Ballas felt 'disdainful stares' at dad's funeral after painfully honest admission

EXCLUSIVE Shirley Ballas has opened up about the funeral of her estranged dad who walked out on the family when she was two, in her gripping new memoir Best Foot Forward

Events

9 h. ago Paisley woman takes on pilgrimage challenge to raise funds for vital charity

Eva Penaranda recently undertook the task of completing the full length of the Borders Abbeys Walk in a bid to raise vital funds for Street Connect.

Economics

10 h. ago England thrashed by South Africa with 175 balls to spare: first men’s one

England are skittled for 131 at HeadingleyBaker set for debut as Overton takes ‘indefinite break’1st over: England 8-0 (Duckett 0, Smith 8) Burger with the first over. Tall, broad, left arm, a shadow of a moustache, a doormat of a goatee, and Smith plays the first three balls watchfully away. Balls five and six however, go for four, one sent away at 27 minutes past the hour, one at 27 minutes to.Our man on the ground, Simon Burnton, reports a ground half full and filling up quickly, as the players prepare to walk through a welcoming committee of flag-waving women over 40. Just add that to our skill set. Continue reading...

Politics

10 h. ago Kelley Wolf banned from contacting her children and ordered to stay 300 feet away from ex Scott Wolf in new ruling

The former couple tied the knot in 2004 and later welcomed three children

Events

10 h. ago Aidan O'Brien's hiring of Christophe Soumillon leaves major St Leger fancy without a jockey

The ten-time French champion jockey had been booked to ride Lazy Griff since July but has informed trainer Charlie Johnston that he is likely to be needed at Leopardstown to fill in for the injured Ryan Moore

Sport

10 h. ago Portobello review – Marco Bellocchio’s glorious saga of TV stars, mafia prisoners and lace doilies

Venice film festivalIn the first two episodes of a six-part series, the stardom of 80s primetime host Enzo Tortora is cleverly crosscut with the scramble of a mob secretary who implicates him – and his parrot – in drug traffickingMarco Bellocchio, the tireless warhorse of Italian cinema, kicks up a swirling dust cloud of corruption with this fabulous, stranger-than-fiction account of an 80s TV star convicted of conspiring with the Camorra. Shot for the streaming service HBO Max, it is the director’s second historical miniseries after 2022’s Exterior Night, about the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, and features the same lead player in Fabrizio Gifuni, an actor who has surely cornered the market in playing glossy public figures whose lives are about to take a hellish turn. Bellocchio’s dramas typically inhabit this kind of shonky, venal moral universe. The ground is liable to drop away pretty much at any moment.Gifuni stars as Enzo Tortora, a primetime TV presenter in the twinkling Terry Wog...

Events

10 h. ago Welsh cannabis dealer warned by judge not to associate with London criminals

Kyle Walker, 30, was found in possession of 29g of cannabis after he was stopped by police.

Events

11 h. ago Marvel films costume designer who raped a woman after she put a banana skin in the 'wrong bin' is jailed for 12 years

Marvyn Marques, 38, launched the sickening attack after raging that his victim had put the peel in the wrong rubbish bin and later raped her again as punishment.

Events

11 h. ago Starmer pushes digital ID cards for ALL after Macron demands action to tackle scourge of illegal working in Britain

Keir Starmer told the Cabinet he would be 'exploring options around digital ID' as part of a wider package of reforms designed to make it harder for illegal migrants to live and work in this country.

Politics

11 h. ago Lauryn Goodman displays her figure on Marbella holiday with her two children Kairo, 4, and Kinara, 2, after their father Kyle Walker played latest Burnley match

Lauryn Goodman showed off her toned figure during a fun-filled family holiday with her two children in Marbella on Tuesday.

Society

11 h. ago iPhone users are BAFFLED to discover a secret design element hidden in the alarm

In a viral post on X (formerly Twitter), one user has shared their strange discovery about the iPhone alarm.

Events

11 h. ago Celebrated, imprisoned, reviled, rebuilt: Fernand Pouillon, the lost architect of France

From designing enormous postwar housing projects to escaping from prison using a rope, Pouillon’s life had high drama. A new documentary charts the extraordinary rise, fall – and rise again – of France’s ‘most wanted’ creativeVariously described as an “architect, painter, novelist, communist and convicted fraudster”, Fernand Pouillon’s life was punctuated by abrupt reversals of fortune that might have sprung from the pages of Dickens or Dumas. Throughout an eventful career, he ricocheted from intoxicating success, to financial scandal, prison, exile and eventual rehabilitation.In 1985, when Pouillon was in his early 70s, he was awarded the Légion d’Honneur by President François Mitterrand. Yet just over 20 years earlier, Pouillon found himself in custody awaiting trial on charges of corruption. As a prolific architect-developer who had designed gargantuan housing schemes in France and Algeria, he was accused of funding irregularities and violating laws contrived to keep the processe...

Events

12 h. ago Dunelm launches dreamy autumn pumpkin bedding and shoppers can get it for £10

Designed to add a subtle seasonal hint, it's made from a soft-touch, easy-care fabric with tufted pumpkin detailing throughout

Economics

12 h. ago We're calling it: All the fashionable women will be wearing brown trainers this autumn

Camel hits the perfect sweet spot of being neutral enough to go with everything while still adding a focal point to often-monochrome winter outfits.

Politics