4 h. ago More women holidaying without families to ’embrace adventure’

Group tour operators said there has been a noticeable increase in demand from people – particularly women – travelling without family or friends.

Politics

5 h. ago Man arrested after at least 50 shots fired from Sydney flat injure bystanders and hit buildings and cars

Sixteen people treated for injuries and firearms seized after shooting in Croydon Park in city’s inner west on Sunday nightFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA 60-year-old man has been arrested after at least one person was shot, numerous people were injured and multiple cars were fired upon by a gunman in Sydney’s inner west.As many as 100 shots rang out between 7.45pm and 9.30pm on Sunday night in Croydon Park. Continue reading...

Events

5 h. ago Man arrested after about 50 shots fired from Sydney flat injure bystanders and hit buildings and cars

Sixteen people treated for injuries and firearms seized after shooting in Croydon Park in city’s inner west on Sunday nightFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA 60-year-old man has been arrested after at least one person was shot, numerous people were injured and multiple cars were fired upon by a gunman in Sydney’s inner west.As many as 100 shots rang out between 7.45pm and 9.30pm on Sunday night in Croydon Park. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago The way we buy and sell homes is set for massive change in the UK

The Government has set out plans for the biggest shake-up to the homebuying system in history, which it claims could slash costs for buyers and cut the time it takes to move

Politics

6 h. ago Frauds review – Suranne Jones’s heist caper proves you don’t always need a big screen to think big

Suranne Jones is an ex-con with cancer determined to carry out ‘one last job’ with her former partner (Jodie Whittaker), in ITV’s surreal and often gusset-wettingly funny show

Politics

7 h. ago Billionaire beef baron warns US not producing enough to satisfy protein craze

JBS’s Wesley Batista says strong US demand is pushing country towards imports despite Trump’s tariffs

Events

7 h. ago Billionaire beef baron says US not producing enough to satisfy protein craze

JBS’s Wesley Batista says strong US demand is pushing country towards imports despite Trump’s tariffs

Science

8 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing fans say 'sort it out' as they make screen time demand

This week saw the first couple eliminated from the 2025 series of Strictly Come Dancing

Politics

8 h. ago It is Thatcher – not Badenoch – who looms largest over the Tory party conference

The merchandise stall is selling mugs, Christmas baubles and bottles of whisky bearing their former leader’s face as the party celebrates what would have been her 100th birthday, write Millie Cooke and Archie Mitchell

Politics

9 h. ago Newbuild mansions on sale for £1.8m in upmarket country village home to footballers and celebrities called a 'hideous blob' by wealthy neighbours

The village is known as a millionaire hotspot where the average home sells for one million pounds but the latest addition may challenge that.

Economics

11 h. ago What a whopper! Twins' prized pumpkin which drinks 1,000 pints of water a day becomes record breaker

Little Etta Syrett, four, is dwarfed by one of her grandfather Ian's gigantic pumpkins. Ian and twin brother Stuart have been growing the vegetables in their greenhouse in Lymington, Hampshire.

Politics

11 h. ago It is Thatcher – not Badenoch – that looms largest over the Tory party conference

The merchandise stall is selling mugs, Christmas baubles and bottles of whiskey with former leader’s face as the Conservatives celebrate what would have been her hundredth birthday, write Millie Cooke and Archie Mitchell

Politics

12 h. ago Bob MacIntyre prize money revealed as Ryder Cup star sees Alfred Dunhill win propel him into elite

The Oban superstar pockets another fortune after winning the title at St Andrews by blowing Jon Rahm and Co away

Politics

13 h. ago National Lottery urges players to 'check tickets' after UK ticket holder scoops £26million EuroMillions prize

The National Lottery has confirmed that the £10.6m Lotto jackpot remains unclaimed

Economics

13 h. ago BBC crime series hailed 'masterpiece' by fans who say it's 'best show on TV'

The six-part BBC crime drama, based on the best-selling novels by Sir Ian Rankin, has a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes and is returning to screens for a second season

Culture

14 h. ago 996 work culture is sad and inhumane. Whatever’s wrong with 888 – or even 000? | Emma Beddington

Silicon Valley is keen, once more, on a working pattern of 12-hour days, six days a week. It really is time for a new approach ...My current cultural comfort food is The Gilded Age, Julian Fellowes’ deeply silly Manhattan toffs-in-bustles drama, in which one storyline (summarily dealt with due to lack of taffeta-rustling opportunities, I suspect) features a tycoon’s downtrodden steelworkers going on strike for “888”: eight hours each of work, sleep and recreation.That wasn’t a revolutionary demand in the 1880s. The slogan, coined by the utopian social reformer Robert Owen, dates from 1817 (his New Lanark mill workers still did 10.5-hour days, though). Even then, it wasn’t unprecedented: apparently, a 16th-century Spanish ordinance limited New World construction workers to eight-hour days. Continue reading...

Politics

15 h. ago An academic was aghast when her partner was accused of IRA activity. After his trial, he confessed

Mary Attenborough’s nightmare began when the police raided the flat she and Michael Gallagher shared, their memoir reveals, but their relationship prevailedWhen police thundered into their London home in 1996 and arrested Michael Gallagher on suspicion of IRA activity, Margaret Attenborough was shocked and indignant.She was an English academic who wrote books on geophysical software and her Scottish partner was a former civil servant who helped homeless alcoholics. The idea of him as an IRA man seemed ludicrous. Gallagher was romantic and cerebral – he had wowed Attenborough by completing the Guardian’s cryptic crossword in three minutes. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago René Magritte’s ‘superstar of surrealism’ to go on sale in Paris

La Magie Noire, bought by family of wartime resistance heroine 90 years ago, expected to fetch more than €7mA painting by the surrealist artist René Magritte that has been held in a private collection for more than 90 years will go on sale later this month.La Magie Noire was bought by the family of the second world war resistance heroine Suzanne Spaak, who were Magritte’s benefactors at a time when he was struggling financially and had failed to sell a single work for two years. Continue reading...

Politics

18 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing viewers make Vito Coppola demand after same complaint for Ellie Goldstein routine

They returned for the second week of the popular BBC One dance show with a butterfly-themed Waltz

Politics

19 h. ago Celebrity hair stylist reveals top tips for taming flat curly hair including £7 product

If you struggle with flat and curly hair, you may be all too familiar with worrying about turning your hair into a total grease ball - but celebrity hair stylist Nicola Harrowell has shared some of her top tips

Economics