33 m. ago Passenger describes 'nightmare' norovirus outbreak on cruise ship

Dozens of people have fallen ill with areas of the ship closed off and warning messages being issued

Science

38 m. ago Call The Midwife fans gobsmacked as Joyce star's racy role before joining BBC show revealed

Renee Bailey has become a firm favourite with Call The Midwife viewers, but the actress has also taken on a very different role away from the BBC show

Politics

39 m. ago Marcus Rashford sends new message after Man United exit and 'huge' Aston Villa impact

Marcus Rashford had a hand in both of Aston Villa's goals in their win over Chelsea in the Premier League

Politics

58 m. ago 'World's hottest gamer' says Elon Musk is a 'fraud' as she throws down challenge

EXCLUSIVE: Keera Kawaii, the 'world's hottest gamer', says she wants to play Elon Musk at Diablo and reckons she has a secret weapon to take down the billionaire SpaceX owner

Politics

81 m. ago Beterbiev vs Bivol 2 official scorecards: Did judges get it right in undisputed title rematch?

Dmitry Bivol won a majority decision to take the undisputed light-heavyweight belts from Artur Beterbiev, four months after the latter secured the same result

Politics

90 m. ago Robbie Williams makes huge announcement in apology video after 10 year wait

Robbie Williams sent a message to his fans, apologising for their long wait as he gears up for an eventful summer

Politics

96 m. ago Robin van Persie confirmed as new manager of Champions League last

The Premier League legend, 41, has managed Heerenveen since the start of the season but has left the club to immediately to take up the new role in the Eredivisie.

Sport

2 h. ago Angry bride struggles to hold her temper after 'disrespectful' guest refuses to take their wailing baby outside during the vows of the 'adult

Claire Kendall Taetz, 25, from Fort Worth, Texas in the US, had just walked down the aisle when she began to hear a bawling infant behind her.

Politics

2 h. ago Britain's Got Talent fans 'have seen the winner' but grim act leaves some reeling

The first show in the new series of Britain's Got Talent has got viewers rushing to social media to declare that they have seen the winning act

Politics

2 h. ago 'My daughter is 19 and I still don't even let her take driving lessons without me'

Bobbie Jo Houston says she is against the idea of daughter Honie being alone with strangers due to concerns for her safety. But denies that she is 'overprotective' of the 19-year-old

Politics

2 h. ago BBC viewers slam new series hailed 'Peaky Blinders' spiritual successor'

New BBC series Dope Girls has started airing, but the period drama has failed to impress some TV viewers so far

Politics

3 h. ago Snubs, omissions, and a secret publicity race: The thorny diplomacy of the Oscars in memoriam segment

The in memoriam tribute serves a worthy cause, but the scrutiny is real, and errors don’t go unnoticed. Clémence Michallon takes a closer look at a segment that tends to make headlines for the wrong reasons

Events

3 h. ago Can a brown Hindu be English? English people say yes. Why do so many on the right say no? | Kenan Malik

An argument about Rishi Sunak’s identity reveals how ideas of ethnicity and race have become conflated‘They think they’re English because they’re born here. That means if a dog’s born in a stable it’s a horse.” That was a staple of the comedian Bernard Manning’s routine back in the 1970s. Enoch Powell had, a decade earlier, expressed the same sentiment in more refined language: “The West Indian or Asian does not, by being born in England, become an Englishman. In law he becomes a United Kingdom citizen by birth; in fact he is a West Indian or an Asian still.”Few today would laugh along with Manning or take seriously the claim that only white people can be English. Britain has transformed over the past half-century and most English people now embrace Ian Wright and Idris Elba as being as English as David Beckham or Joanna Lumley. Continue reading...

Politics

3 h. ago ‘I stripped away this caricature that I created’: Pamela Anderson on makeup, activism and gardening

The star of Baywatch and The Last Showgirl answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including Stella McCartney, Liam Neeson, Ruby Wax and Naomi KleinPamela Anderson, makeup-free and beautiful in a floral Westwood suit, is making a fuss of my dog. My dog likes her. I’m not a particular believer in the idea that animals are great character judges but, in this case, me and the dog are aligned. I like Anderson too. She combines openness with a kind of vulnerability, and you warm to her immediately.Settled on a sofa in a small dressing room off a photography studio, she asks for a coffee and promptly spills it everywhere. “I strive for imperfection,” she jokes. “I strive for it, and I just hit it every time.” Cortado mopped, she takes a breath, before talking excitedly of a new phase in her eventful life. “A door opened, and I walked through,” she says. “It’s hard to believe.” Continue reading...

Politics

3 h. ago Waste Wars by Alexander Clapp review – the filthy truth about trash

A globe-spanning study of the waste industry reveals how wealthy nations dump their garbage on the poor while the rate at which we produce near-indestructible rubbish only increasesYou know the drill: plastic and glass containers go in the blue recycling bin, paper and cardboard in the blue sack, vegetable matter in the green compost bin, and the rest in the grey general rubbish bin. Households up and down the land go through variations of these familiar refuse-sorting tasks each week. But where does it actually all go?Into the trucks that pick them up, yes, but after that? It’s a kind of act of faith that we imagine our detritus that we’ve carefully – or not so carefully – categorised is transported to the right location where appropriate measures are taken to dispose of it in the most sensible and ecological manner. Continue reading...

Events

3 h. ago Call The Midwife stars with famous relatives including EastEnders dad and Hollywood daughter

Call The Midwife has been a staple on our screens for 13 years, so we take a look at the famous actors related to the stars of the show

Politics

4 h. ago Actress takes after her superstar parents as she poses for Instagram snaps

This aspiring actress has very famous parents. 

Politics

4 h. ago Philippe Clement on Rangers brink LIVE as 49ers takeover nears and Neil McCann has fans begging him for Ibrox return

Fans cannot do it anymore and it appears the man at the helm is acutely aware he is now in borrowed time

Politics

4 h. ago Philippe Clement on Rangers brink LIVE as 49ers takeover nears and OTHER answer to sack question airs

Fans cannot do it anymore and it appears the man at the helm is acutely aware he is now in borrowed time

Society

4 h. ago Philippe Clement on Rangers brink LIVE as 49ers takeover nears and Monaco fans hear Belgian's 'loser speech' again

Fans cannot do it anymore and it appears the man at the helm is acutely aware he is now in borrowed time

Politics