22 m. ago Brit soldier charged with murdering wife in Australia in 'million

Graeme Davidson, 55, from Glasgow, was on a day trip with his wife of 26 years and mother-of-three Jacqueline Davidson when Jacqueline died in what was initially thought to be a kayaking accident in a lake near Brisbane, Australia

Events

87 m. ago Erin Patterson trial live: mushroom cook refused to be assessed by doctors in hospital cubicle, court hears

Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a lunch she served at her Leongatha home in 2023. Follow live updatesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Don and Gail had dined at Erin’s before, court hearsAnna Terrington also recalls a lunch that her parents, Don and Gail, had at Erin’s house in 2023 – before the fateful mushroom meal. Continue reading...

Society

1 hour ago Not Zero! Parliament scraps its own EV chargers due to 'health and safety'

Westminster MPs have reportedly been informed they can't use EV chargers on the parliamentary estate on 'health and safety' grounds - leaving MPs queuing for four chargers.

Politics

1 hour ago Who is Felix Zwayer? PSG vs Arsenal referee for Champions League semi

The controversial match official takes charge of the Champions League semi-final on Wednesday night

Sport

2 h. ago Erin Patterson trial live: mushroom cook discharged herself from hospital after ‘five minutes’, court hears in triple zero audio

Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a lunch she served at her Leongatha home in 2023. Follow live updatesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Don and Gail had dined at Erin’s before, court hearsAnna Terrington also recalls a lunch that her parents, Don and Gail, had at Erin’s house in 2023 – before the fateful mushroom meal. Continue reading...

Society

2 h. ago Derek McInnes is staring Hearts in the face and if I was in charge I'd have appointed him already – Ryan Stevenson

Record Sport's voice of Hearts believes the obvious answer is right there and the club need to stop messing about and make it happen

Politics

3 h. ago Lawmakers seek to rein in citizen ballot initiatives with new requirements for petitions

Citizen activists could find it harder to get initiatives on next year's ballot in some states

Politics

3 h. ago Today’s AI can crack second world war Enigma code ‘in short order’, experts say

Crowning achievement of Alan Turing’s codebreakers is now ‘straightforward’, according to computer scientistsThe Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing.While Polish experts broke early versions of the Enigma code in the 1930s and built anti-Enigma machines, subsequent security upgrades by the Germans meant Turing had to develop new machines, or “Bombes”, to help his team of codebreakers decipher enemy messages. By 1943, the machines could decipher two messages every minute. Continue reading...

Events

3 h. ago ‘Desperate, traumatised people’: Gaza faces wave of looting, theft and violence

Aid officials and residents report breakdown in law and order as food and supplies run out during Israeli blockadeGaza has been hit by a wave of looting and theft as increasingly desperate Palestinians struggle to get food while criminal gangs exploit a breakdown in law and order.Aid officials and witnesses in the devastated territory describe armed men attacking humanitarian warehouses, firefights over remaining food stores and a spate of stealing of supplies vital for survival, such as solar chargers, batteries, phones and cooking pots. Continue reading...

Events

4 h. ago Erin Patterson trial live: no record of cancer diagnosis for Erin Patterson on state’s register, health official says

Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a lunch she served at her Leongatha home in 2023. Follow live updatesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Don and Gail had dined at Erin’s before, court hearsAnna Terrington also recalls a lunch that her parents, Don and Gail, had at Erin’s house in 2023 – before the fateful mushroom meal. Continue reading...

Society

4 h. ago Manchester United have a wildcard bench option to frighten Athletic Bilbao in Europa League

Man Utd play Athletic Bilbao in the Europa League semi-final second leg on Thursday and Amad has a role to play.

Sport

5 h. ago Erin Patterson trial live: daughter of alleged mushroom lunch victims emotional as she remembers parents’ final days in hospital

Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a lunch she served at her Leongatha home in 2023. Follow live updatesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Don and Gail had dined at Erin’s before, court hearsAnna Terrington also recalls a lunch that her parents, Don and Gail, had at Erin’s house in 2023 – before the fateful mushroom meal. Continue reading...

Society

5 h. ago Prospective Diddy juror excused after admitting he can't go a day without one thing

Sean 'Diddy' Comb's trial continued on Tuesday May 6 with day two of jury selection as he faces charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution

Politics

6 h. ago Erin Patterson trial live: witnesses to continue giving evidence on day seven of mushroom cook’s murder trial

Australian woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to a lunch she served at her Leongatha home in 2023. Follow live updatesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?By 6.30am the following day – 31st July – Morgan advised Dr Mark Douglas that Don’s condition had worsened and Gail was showing “similar progress”.Douglas, who was on call, advised Morgan to immediately administer silibinin – the antidote to death cap mushroom poisoning.What I was told was that Don was quite unwell, both in his clinical state and lab state... Gail was not as unwell as Don. Continue reading...

Society

7 h. ago Former security guard charged with murder of technical college dean near Los Angeles

A former security guard has been charged with murdering the dean of a small technical college in Los Angeles last week

Events

7 h. ago Major UK hotel chain ditches some of its free activities for guests

The major hotel brand, which has 16 adults-only properties across the UK, now charges for archery, crossbow and axe throwing.

Politics

7 h. ago Our £42K Fisker EVs have battery issues, glitchy software, make weird noises and can't be fixed because the firm's gone bust

When car designer Henrik Fisker unveiled his Ocean electric SUV at the end of 2021, he told the Los Angeles Auto Show it was his mission to create the world's 'most sustainable vehicles'.

Economics

7 h. ago Smokey Robinson accused of sexual assault by four women in $50m lawsuit

Ex-housekeepers accuse Motown legend of sexual battery, false imprisonment, negligence and gender violenceMotown legend William “Smokey” Robinson has been accused of sexual assault and misconduct by four women – identified only as Jane Does 1, 2, 3 and 4 – who worked as housekeepers for the Robinsons.A complaint filed in Los Angeles superior court on 6 May lists charges including sexual battery, false imprisonment, negligence and gender violence. The complaint seeks $50m total in damages for the four women. Continue reading...

Events

8 h. ago Vicky Pattison and Angela Scanlon launch podcast inspired by ‘female comradery’

Pattison said she and Scanlon will ‘put the world to rights with lots of laughter along the way’.

Politics

10 h. ago Simone Inzaghi 'saved from suspension' by Inter star after storming onto pitch during extra

Inzaghi charged onto the park and had to be 'protected' from suspension

Events