38 m. ago Tour de France 2025 live: Stage 10 start time and route updates as GC contenders do battle on Bastille Day

Race favourites Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard could clash on this undulating road to the finish line atop Puy de Sancy, the highest peak in France’s Massif Central region

Society

43 m. ago US manufacturers are stuck in a rut despite subsidies from Biden and protection from Trump

Democratic President Joe Biden handed out subsidies to chipmakers and electric vehicle manufacturers

Politics

56 m. ago BBC Repair Shop's Jay Blades 'axed from new reality show' weeks before arrest

Former BBC Repair Shop host Jay Blades is said to have signed up to a brand new ITV reality show but was dropped when news of his arrest emerged weeks before filming started

Events

63 m. ago US Government has 'made advancements in alien gravity technology' after stealing ET tech

Popularized by inventor Thomas Townsend Brown, who believed 'electro-gravity' could be used for propulsion, it has now been claimed that the US Government has been working on making it a reality

Politics

82 m. ago Lions hopeful admits losing a stone in 12 days as 'getting off the toilet was an issue'

British and Irish Lions fullback Hugo Keenan endured a slow start to the tour of Australia with the Irishman's illness seeing him married to the toilet as he lost considerable weight

Politics

97 m. ago ‘We’re Britain’s dirty little secret’: After 17 years under an indefinite jail term for a teenage crime, Tony is finally free

Tony Betteridge was aged just 18 when he was handed an indefinite jail term for setting a fire in a store cupboard in an empty building, Amy-Clare Martin writes. After more than a decade in jail, four recalls and the tragic loss of his mother, sister and brother, he is ready to start a new life

Events

1 hour ago Rule change that 'removes barrier' affects every home without a driveway

The Government has announced a £63 million boost to Britain's electric vehicle revolution, as part of its Plan for Change

Politics

1 hour ago ‘Spirited and sumptuous’: why Big Night is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers recommending comfort watches is a tribute to 1996’s charming restaurant-set comedy drama“Life is meals,” observed the novelist James Salter. Big Night, Stanley Tucci’s spirited and sumptuous indie from 1996, is a film about one big meal that asks a few big questions about life, including: What is the cost of the American dream? What does food allow us to say to each other that words can’t? And what right does Marc Anthony, of all people, have to deliver one of the most charming non-speaking performances in any movie since the silent era?Big Night follows two Italian immigrants who run a failing restaurant in 1950s New Jersey. Ambitious, high-strung Secondo (Tucci, practically hirsute) is the manager, while his brother Primo (Tony Shalhoub) is the madman in the kitchen, a purist who derides the local clientele as philistines and has begun to doubt the wisdom of coming to the US in the first place. Continue reading...

Politics

1 hour ago Trendy soft drink loved by millions could 'protect against bowel cancer' in some people, study reveals

A drink that has surged in popularity in recent years, lauded as a natural electrolyte, has now been found to ward off a host of inflammatory bowel disease that increase the risk of cancer.

Economics

1 hour ago 'I was left speechless by what Jet2 staff said... I started crying before we'd even got on the plane'

Claire King was due to fly on Jet2 to Ibiza

Politics

1 hour ago DWP confirms changes to specific compensation payments set to start next week

The change will start on July 22 for people new and existing claimants of means-tested benefits.

Economics

2 h. ago EastEnders' James Bye’s son, two, rushed to hospital after eating 'toxic’ plant

The EastEnders star's wife Victoria Bye has told all about the horror hospital dash after toddler Rufus, 2, ingesting the plant and his ‘tongue started to swell’

Events

2 h. ago EastEnders icon whose departure from the Square was called 'the end of an era' is unrecognisable with sixties inspired new look... can you guess who it is?

She left Albert Square last year after 16 years on EastEnders.

Politics

3 h. ago Bank of England governor says jobs slowdown could prompt rate cut; European markets fall after Trump tariff threat – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as Andrew Bailey insists: “I think the path [for interest rates] is down”.Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 30% on European Union imports from next month is weighing on European stock markets this morning.Most of Europe’s markets have dropped at the start of trading, pulling the pan-European Stoxx 600 index down by 0.6%.Inadvertently or otherwise the President is testing the market’s patience. At a time when investors had seemingly brushed aside the likelihood of the base line of tariffs settling at 10%, the new pronouncements suggest a level of between 15% and 20% being the norm, with additionally punitive numbers on the likes of Canada at 35% adding to the uncertainty.The so-called “TACO” trade will therefore be tested again, with markets drifting in the US on Friday and futures currently suggesting a similar fall today. In addition, and as the new 1 August extension approaches, nerves are likely to jangle. Continue readi...

Economics

4 h. ago Thousands of Apple fans race to buy MacBook Pro for £139 in price drop deal

Brand new models of the MacBook Pro start at £1,599, but you can snag yourself a much cheaper model online.

Economics

4 h. ago Planning officers approved council’s Strathclyde Park watersports refurbishment project

The revamp, which will include building a new extension over the roof terrace and provision of new charging points for electric vehicles, has formally received planning permission.

Events

5 h. ago ‘People here are as strong as concrete’: the stunning architecture of war

A new architectural guidebook was written as a love letter to the Ukrainian city – then Russia started bombing it. How will this home to Tetris-like offices and daring curved cinemas be rebuilt?When the Derzhprom building erupted on to the Kharkiv skyline in the 1920s, it must have seemed like an impossibly futuristic vision. Standing like a gleaming white concrete castle, it curves around the circular plaza of Freedom Square in the city’s centre.Built as the state industry headquarters of what was then the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, it looks like a three-dimensional game of Tetris, a mighty nest of chunky oblong forms stacked, rotated and interlocked to form a colossal administrative pile. Striding across three city blocks, and towering almost 60m high, it was the tallest office building in Europe for several years, its humungous floor plates connected high up in the air by thrilling sci-fi skybridges. It was far ahead of its time, prefiguring the brawny br...

Events

5 h. ago Tour de France stage 10 preview: Route map, profile and start time as GC contenders set for battle on Bastille Day

Mountains are on the menu for first time in this year’s Tour de France on a punishing mountain stage

Events

5 h. ago UK weather: Exact date heatwave will end and thundery downpours will batter Brits

Temperatures which have exceeded 30C in several parts of the country and broken multiple records over the weekend are widely forecast to cool down starting from today

Society

7 h. ago Port Talbot moves towards arc furnace future with groundbreaking ceremony

Ministers and Tata chiefs will mark the beginning of construction of the new electric arc furnace with a groundbreaking ceremony.

Events