28 h. ago UK and India agree trade deal, slashing tariffs on car and whisky exports

The deal follows three years of talks and is set to boost several sectors which are hit especially hard by Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Economics

54 h. ago It's ladies night! Boozy Bank Holiday revellers don their finest party outfits and hit the town for the long weekend

From pink cowboy hats and hen do's to Elvis costumes and granny wigs, raucous partygoers were keen to hit it hard on Sunday and enjoy the early May bank holiday in style.

Events

4 d. ago ‘Protest can shape the world’: Rebecca Solnit on the fight back against Trump

Demonstrations against the US president have been underplayed and dismissed, but a lifetime of activism has taught me how powerful collective action can beOn 5 April, millions of people rallied against the Trump administration and its campaigns of destruction. In small towns and big cities from Alaska to Florida, red counties and blue (and a handful of European cities), they gathered with homemade signs full of fury and heartbreak and sarcasm. Yet the “Hands Off” protests received minimal media coverage, and the general response was that they didn’t do anything, because they didn’t have immediate and obvious, and most of all quantifiable, consequences. I’ve heard versions of “no one cares”, “no one is doing anything” and “nothing came of it” for all my activist life. These responses are sometimes a sign that the speaker isn’t really looking and sometimes that they don’t recognise impacts that aren’t immediate, direct or obvious. Tracking those indirect and unhurried impacts, trying ...

Politics

4 d. ago ‘Protest shapes the world’: Rebecca Solnit on the fight back against Trump

Demonstrations against the US president have been underplayed and dismissed, but a lifetime of activism has taught me how powerful collective action can beOn 5 April, millions of people rallied against the Trump administration and its campaigns of destruction. In small towns and big cities from Alaska to Florida, red counties and blue (and a handful of European cities), they gathered with homemade signs full of fury and heartbreak and sarcasm. Yet the “Hands Off” protests received minimal media coverage, and the general response was that they didn’t do anything, because they didn’t have immediate and obvious, and most of all quantifiable, consequences. I’ve heard versions of “no one cares”, “no one is doing anything” and “nothing came of it” for all my activist life. These responses are sometimes a sign that the speaker isn’t really looking and sometimes that they don’t recognise impacts that aren’t immediate, direct or obvious. Tracking those indirect and unhurried impacts, trying ...

Politics

9 d. ago He was driving at 90mph on the M4 during a storm, aquaplaned and killed a mother and daughter

The mother and daughter from Caerphilly were stopped on the hard shoulder when Firas Zeineddine lost control of his Tesla and hit an HGV, which then fell on the women's Volkswagen

Events

1 week ago Health warning for Australians and their pets after rare virus kills 28 in Queensland

Bacterial infection that thrives in wet soil and stagnant water has hit particularly hard in regions affected by flooding earlier this year

Events

1 week ago The 18 most devastating character deaths in TV history, from Blackadder to The Last of Us

We know it’s not real, but TV deaths can still hit hard. Annabel Nugent rounds up some of the most memorable and traumatic times a character has been killed off

Events

1 week ago Disabled people detained by Ice sound alarm over overcrowded jails

Rodney Taylor, whose legs were amputated as a toddler, just one of many people with disabilities at risk from detentionIn his three months locked up at Stewart detention center in Lumpkin, Georgia, Rodney Taylor has missed meals and showers, lived with increasing pain in his hips, developed a swollen thumb on his right hand and blisters on the stumps where his two legs were amputated when he was a toddler.Taylor’s mother brought him to the US from Liberia on a medical visa as a small child. He went through 16 operations and is a double amputee. He has two fingers on his right hand. Now 46, he has lived in the US nearly his entire life, works as a barber, is active in promoting cancer awareness in his community, and recently got engaged. Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago Trump tariffs chaos will blow huge hole in US economy and hit UK hard, says IMF in damning report

‘The US effective tariff rate surged past levels reached during the Great Depression,’ say the leading economists

Events

2 w. ago I never stepped foot in a gym until age 62... but now people are stunned by my physique

While former dancer Ginny MacColl, now 73, from Southport, North Carolina, has 'always' been active, for the first 62 years of her life, she had no interest in weight training or working out.

Politics

2 w. ago Dad and son dead after massive sinkhole opens up and swallows their car whole

Father and son Leone and Francesco Nardon were killed as they travelled by car into the northern Italian town of Valdagno, one of the many places hit hard by recent severe flooding

Events

2 w. ago I remember my hometown full of life and activity. But it has been hit so hard

Neath has so much wasted potential. We should do something about it

Events

2 w. ago Calls for more 'third spaces' for trans people as activists including Kellie Maloney say life is now 'very dangerous' for us after court ruling

The ECHR has been overwhelmed with calls on the issue as organisations have been seeking clarity has on how on manage the implications of the judgment, it is reported.

Events

2 w. ago ‘All of his guns will do nothing for him’: lefty preppers are taking a different approach to doomsday

Liberals in the US make up about 15% of the prepping scene and their numbers are growing. Their fears differ from their better-known rightwing counterparts – as do their methodsOne afternoon in February, hoping to survive the apocalypse or at least avoid finding myself among its earliest victims, I logged on to an online course entitled Ruggedize Your Life: The Basics.Some of my classmates had activated their cameras. I scrolled through the little windows, noting the alarmed faces, downcast in cold laptop light. There were dozens of us on the call, including a geophysicist, an actor, a retired financial adviser and a civil engineer. We all looked worried, and rightly so. The issue formerly known as climate change was now a polycrisis called climate collapse. H1N1 was busily jumping from birds to cows to people. And with each passing day, as Donald Trump went about gleefully dismantling state capacity, the promise of a competent government response to the next hurricane, wildfire, fl...

Politics

3 w. ago Boxing legend George Foreman to be honored at Houston memorial service

Family, friends and the public are set to remember boxing legend George Foreman at a memorial service in his hometown of Houston

Politics

3 w. ago Trump says there will be NO tariff exemptions in dramatic reversal that'll hit Americans hard

President Donald Trump blasted China in a social media post on Sunday where he said there were no tariff exemptions after electronics were not included in a notice on Friday.

Events

3 w. ago Thomas Partey injury worry for Arsenal as title hopes hit hard by Brentford draw

Partey scored for the Gunners but had to be withdrawn with 20 minutes remaining.

Events

3 w. ago Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought stocks hit hard by Trump tariffs during the market meltdown

Marjorie Taylor Greene bought some high profile stocks last week as other investors were bailing out of the market

Politics

3 w. ago Alfresco dining could return to London this summer with City Hall backing

Outdoor dining was a lifeline for many businesses during Covid as lockdowns hit hospitality hard

Politics

4 w. ago What Asian countries hit hard by Trump’s tariffs are doing to save their economies

China refuses to bow to US pressure while other Asian nations urge negotiations to soften the blow

Politics