86 m. ago Man orders pint with full English breakfast in Benidorm and price leaves him floored

A breakfast and pint combo has left members of the public floored, with one man saying it's 'one of the best' offers available in popular holiday hotspot Benidorm

Politics

89 m. ago At least 3 dead and thousands displaced as wildfires rage across southern Europe

Wildfires are raging across southern Europe, killing at least three people in Spain, Turkey and Albania

Events

92 m. ago ‘A whole spectrum of hatred’: women face increased violence in Milei’s Argentina as rights are eroded

In a country once lauded as a progressive bastion in Latin America, protections are being dismantled by a populist leader, and gender-based offences are on the riseIn the week before her murder, Fernanda Soledad Yramain lay awake at night listening as a motorbike circled the house where she was hiding. “She kept saying ‘it’s him’,” remembers Daniella Viscarra, Soledad’s sister-in-law with whom she had sought refuge in the Tucumán countryside. “She was scared all of the time.”A month earlier, in September 2024, 29-year-old Soledad had ended a relationship with her boyfriend, Francisco Timoteo Saldaño. They had been together since she was 14 and he was 35, and shared three children. In the final year of their relationship, Saldaño had turned violent. Continue reading...

Events

98 m. ago Girl, 12, is raped by 200 men in three months after being trafficked to India after running away from home when she failed an exam and was scared her parents would be angry

She ran away with the help of a woman she knew, who smuggled her across the border and sold her into the sex trade, according to police.

Events

1 hour ago 'I had six children aged 17 after rape at 8, first baby at 10 and marriage at 11'

Sherry Yvonne Johnson was raped for the first time at eight by a man nine years older than her, by the age of 10 she had given birth to his child, and by 11, she was married to him

Events

1 hour ago Parents, pensioners and disabled people due up to £305 in extra payments this year

More than half a million children and families in Scotland received cash help for heating bills last year.

Economics

1 hour ago Outcry in India as Delhi moves to remove 'all ONE MILLION' stray dogs from its streets following rabies outbreak

India's top court ordered authorities in the capital Delhi and its suburbs on Monday to remove all stray dogs, following a rise in rabies cases, particularly among children.

Science

1 hour ago Female teacher denies sexual activity with three children but admits one offence with girl

James pleaded guilty to one charge of engaging in sexual communication with a child at Salisbury Crown Court, but she denied a total of 11 other offences relating to two girls and boy

Society

2 h. ago Marcus Rashford claims Manchester United are stuck in ‘no man’s land’

Forward says club paying for lack of clear directionHe believes United need to ‘make a plan and stick to it’Marcus Rashford has offered a withering assessment of Manchester United’s predicament, saying a lack of consistent playing principles since Sir Alex Ferguson stood down has left the club in “no man’s land”.The forward, on loan for the season at Barcelona from United, believes that despite repeated talk of transition no transition has taken place and that the club will not be able to win the Premier League or achieve consistent success unless they make a plan and stick with it. Continue reading...

Politics

2 h. ago Foundation set up in Southport victim’s name to spread ‘magic’

The parents of Alice da Silva Aguiar have launched Alice’s WonderDance.

Events

2 h. ago Who are Kairat Almaty? Celtic foes with Chelsea bound wonderkid offer up gruelling Champions League journey into unknown

It's a hell of a tie for Celtic who face a gruelling Champions League trip to Kazakhstan

Sport

2 h. ago Thousands of tabletop gamers return to the Royal Highland Centre this September

Tabletop Scotland is one of the UK’s premier festivals of analogue gaming, allowing visitors to unplug from technology and enjoy the best in board games, card games and roleplaying games. With over 130 different exhibitors, gamers will be spoilt for choice when exploring the tabletop hobby at the Highland Hall, Royal Highland Centre, over three days on the 5th, 6th, and 7th of September.

Politics

2 h. ago Millions of people over State Pension age set to pay tax in retirement this year

HMRC estimates 8.7 million pensioners will pay tax for the 2025/26 financial year.

Economics

2 h. ago DWP warned 'questions need to be answered' over £452million compensation payouts

Lawyers have questioned claimants losing SDP to universal credit, years before protection was implemented for the transition, arguing not enough was done to protect incomes

Economics

2 h. ago The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar review – whimsical fantasy in a kingdom long, long ago

In this first adult novel from the acclaimed children’s author, an immortal magician returns to tell the story of a royal court where he cast his spells some 500 years beforeThe American author Louis Sachar’s most celebrated book, 1998’s YA novel Holes, was a huge word-of-mouth success on both sides of the Atlantic. Its short, punchy chapters tell the story of plump, hapless Stanley Yelnats, sent to a summer camp for wayward boys, where a terrifying Warden has peculiar ideas about character reformation. The 5ft-deep holes the boys are required to dig turn out to have a surprising purpose. Shifts of time, register and perspective render a simple premise mesmerisingly intricate. It has peril, love, crime, wickedness, redemption and friendship in, well, spades.A quarter of a century later, Sachar has written his first supposedly adult novel, in which many of the same ingredients reappear. A man “dressed like a typical American tourist”, but with an odd habit of storing cake crumbs in t...

Politics

2 h. ago ‘Honour their memory’: Dolly Parton shares her advice on grief for Kelly Clarkson after ex

Pop singer’s former husband Brandon Blackstock, who was the father of her two children, died last week

Politics

3 h. ago Mapped: Where in the UK are people most at risk from potentially deadly heatwave?

New analysis shows thousands of young children, hospital patients and elderly people at risk as UK hit by fourth heatwave of summer

Events

3 h. ago Gaza’s sick children wait in torturous limbo for medical evacuations

For some the only hope is treatment abroad, but not all survive the long, desperate wait for Israel’s approvalAbdel Karim Wahdan no longer has the energy to speak. When visitors arrive, the eight-year-old pretends to be sleeping so that no one looks at him. Between his frequent dialysis sessions, he cries. His bones hurt, he says.Abdel Karim is dying. His death should be preventable but because he lives in Gaza he cannot access the treatment that would save his life. What started as acute kidney failure is now chronic: his small body has begun to swell and he spends his days between hospital beds and injections that he hates. Continue reading...

Politics

3 h. ago Luis Enrique confirms Premier League job offer before winning Champions League with PSG

Luis Enrique led Paris Saint-Germain to their first ever Champions League success last season but in another world he might have been managing in the Premier League

Politics

4 h. ago Flytipper ordered to pay thousands after dumping concrete on road

Footage captured on CCTV helped the local authority trace the man after he dumped concrete illegally in Neath Port Talbot

Economics