14 h. ago Storm Chandra batters Britain: Torrential rain brings widespread flooding as dozens are rescued from their vehicles and homes

Storm Chandra brought major flooding to Britain today after torrential downpours, heavy snow and strong winds saw roads shut, schools closed and trains suspended.

Events

14 h. ago Inside Shamima Begum's secret camp life as she hides in mask ready to flee

ISIS bride Shamima Begum is said to be keeping her head down and is fully prepared to leave the Kurdish run detention camp, where she is being held, in the hope Syrian forces will free her and other women from the tent cities

Politics

14 h. ago Trump to send ICE agents to Milan Winter Olympics amid Minneapolis shooting backlash

Milan mayor, Giuseppe Sala, has said ICE agents are ‘not welcome in Milan’ ahead of next month’s Winter Olympics

Politics

14 h. ago DWP issues response after mum takes her own life when PIP benefits were 'incorrectly' cut

Tamara Jade Logan was incorrectly informed by letter that her PIP payments were being cut

Politics

14 h. ago ‘Situation is dire’ for Sicily town teetering on cliff edge after landslide

1,500 people evacuated from Niscemi after battering by Cyclone Harry triggers 4km-long chasm in hillsideThe mayor of a hilltop town on Sicily said “the situation is dire” after a powerful storm brought down a long section of hillside, leaving houses perched perilously on a cliff edge.About 1,500 people have so far been evacuated from their homes because of the landslide, which began to show signs of movement on Sunday before developing a 4km-long front. The chasm continues to widen, raising fears it could swallow the town’s historic centre. Continue reading...

Politics

14 h. ago Senior ministers wipe away tears as Holocaust survivor addresses Cabinet

Mala Tribich, 95, received a standing ovation after her five-minute speech at 10 Downing Street on Tuesday.

Politics

14 h. ago Social media addiction is 'fuelling the rise in youngsters taking ketamine'

Zaheen Ahmed, the head of therapy at UK Addiction Treatment Centres, warned that if their online and physical life 'doesn't give comfort', then they numb themselves with the drug

Politics

14 h. ago Father found dead in Hyde Park's Serpentine lake on Christmas Eve after going missing while visiting his sick son in London hospital

Gareth Griffiths, 45, had travelled to Londonf rom his home in Cornwall in early December to visit his youngest son, 13, who was undergoing a life-saving bone marrow transplant.

Events

14 h. ago Woman, 21, faces losing her bladder after dismissing rare condition as UTI

Caris Gibson was diagnosed with the rare urinary retention condition, Fowler’s Syndrome, in 2025

Events

14 h. ago Razor shavers say is 'a cut above the rest' and 'best they've used in 50 years' drops to £13

'Cremo barber grade razors give you a clean, close, comfortable shave every time'.

Economics

14 h. ago The books to read before they hit the screen in 2026: From gothic classics to modern thrillers

Whether it's falling in love at a Bridgerton masquerade or surviving a deadly Hunger Games, reading the book first lets you savour every twist, turn and forbidden romance.

Events

14 h. ago ‘Active’ mum diagnosed with inoperable cancer four months after giving birth

Alice Norris was pregnant with her daughter when she noticed blood in her stool, which she initially put down to haemorrhoids

Science

15 h. ago ‘I didn’t have anything to prove’: what Traitors finalist Jade Scott learned about survival from video games

Accused, isolated and constantly under scrutiny, The Traitors contestant drew on years of social deduction gaming to stay calm under pressureThe latest series of The Traitors, which ended last week on a nail-biting finale, featured some of the usual characters – from guileless extroverts to wannabe Columbos endlessly observing fellow contestants for the slightest flicker of treachery. But one faithful stood out for her quiet determination, despite a ceaseless onslaught of suspicion and accusation. That person was Jade Scott, and I wasn’t at all surprised when, quite early on in the series, she revealed she was a keen gamer.“Minecraft was my way in, when I was 15,” she says. “I made loads of friends at school playing that.” From this innocent introduction, however, she moved on to darker titles: the first-person shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and the multiplayer battle-arena game Dota. “That’s where my interest in strategy gaming really kicked in,” she says. Continue readin...

Events

15 h. ago ICE agents handed shock Winter Olympics role after Minneapolis shootings

Milan mayor, Giuseppe Sala has said ICE agents are ‘not welcome in Milan’ ahead of next month’s Winter Olympics

Events

15 h. ago Nottingham stabbings survivor in 'nightmare' pain was 'not warned about new report'

Wayne Birkett says they were given no warning of a critical report into the NHS mental health services behind the care of the paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane, who went on a devastating killing spree in Nottingham

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15 h. ago Auschwitz survivor, 93, who saw his parents and seven siblings killed in death camp says 'humanity has not learnt' from the Holocaust

Ivor Perl was just 12 when he arrived at the gates of Auschwitz, a place he still views as 'literally hell on earth' - but in a sad indictment on today's world he said 'humanity has not learnt anything'.

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15 h. ago Mother, 28, killed herself after mistakenly being told her benefits were being cut, inquest finds

Tamara Jade Logan died at Tameside General Hospital two days after she was found hanged in Glossop, Derbyshire, on May 18, 2025.

Events

15 h. ago America has reached a tipping point on fascism – and on opposition to it | Robert Reich

A chance encounter reminded me: there are two ways to look at what’s happened in MinneapolisOne of the few advantages of being as conspicuous as I am is that many people come up to me whom I don’t know, to talk about what’s happening in America. It’s like a free-floating focus group.On Monday morning, I was at a restaurant counter finishing my breakfast when a middle-aged man sat down next to me and said he didn’t want to intrude. (He just had, so I put down my knife and fork, wiped my mouth with my napkin, and turned toward him.) He wanted me to know that although he’d been a life-long Republican, the events of the past weeks had caused him to leave the Republican party.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist and his newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com. His new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, is out now Continue reading...

Politics

15 h. ago 'I was alone inside the Beckham house and saw what the family was really like'

Eight years before Brooklyn Beckham's claims, journalist Lisa Armstrong visited David and Victoria's home and saw Post-it notes about the children that gave insight into family life

Society

15 h. ago Father diagnosed with terminal condition after noticing symptom at swimming pool

Danny Tucker was just 39 when he was told he had motor neurone disease (MND)

Science