48 m. ago Major UK bank to disappear from high street with five million customers impacted

Santander's £2.65billion deal to acquire TSB will see the high street lender become the second largest bank in the UK by personal current account balances

Economics

49 m. ago Tour de France 2025: Van der Poel wins stage two and takes yellow jersey – as it happened

Mathieu van der Poel won a dramatic sprint finish to claim the yellow jersey after a rain-hit ride to BoulogneI should point out that we have a bumper afternoon of sport on Big Website today. Rob Smyth has over-by-over coverage of the fifth day of the second Test between England and India:If tennis is more your thing, Daniel Harris is across everything at Wimbledon. Follow that here: Continue reading...

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51 m. ago India beat England by 336 runs in second men’s cricket Test, day five – live reaction

Akash Deep takes six second-innings wicketsSign up for The Spin newsletter | Email TahaNothing is happening so I’m going to grab a coffee. In the meantime, here’s Geoff Lemon with the latest from Australia’s tour of the Caribbean.The rain has eased so the groundstaff are getting to work. It’s still spitting and there’s been no discussion of a potential start time. Could be at least an hour – the outfield looks sodden. Continue reading...

Politics

68 m. ago Donald Trump fumed over White House computers blocking him watching adult content

Anthony Scaramucci, who served as Donald Trump's White House communications director for 11 days, has claimed the former US president complained about not being able to watch adult films

Politics

73 m. ago UK carmakers on track to meet EV sales target despite intense lobbying to lower quota

Electric car sales made up 21.6% of sales in first half of 2025, only just below the effective 22% share needed to meet rulesCarmakers are on track to meet existing UK electric car sales targets despite having successfully lobbied the government to water them down.Electric car sales made up 21.6% of sales in the first half of 2025, only marginally below the 22.06% share needed to meet existing rules once concessions are taken into account, according to an analysis by New AutoMotive, a thinktank. Continue reading...

Events

2 h. ago Donald Trump 'moaned about White House computers blocking porn'

Anthony Scaramucci, who was Donald Trump's director of communications for 11 days in 2017, claimed the US president complained he couldn't watch porn in the White House

Politics

3 h. ago Born into crisis, gen Z is saving for retirement like no other generation | Gene Marks

Older gen Zers, with memories of the 2009-10 financial crisis, are saving more, but experts say employers should helpResearch published at the end of last year by the Investment Company Institute with help from the University of Chicago found that gen Z – those born between 1997 and 2012 – are “outpacing” earlier generations in contributing to retirement, having more than three times more assets in their 401(k) retirement savings accounts than gen X households had at the same time in 1989, adjusted for inflation.This mirrors a 2023 study from the TransAmerica Center for Retirement Studies, which found that gen Z is doing a “remarkable job” saving for retirement with many putting away as much as 20% of their income towards the future. Continue reading...

Events

3 h. ago India close on victory as Ben Stokes falls on brink of lunch

Akash Deep led the way as the tourists reduced England to 153 for six in notional pursuit of 608 at Edgbaston.

Politics

3 h. ago Richard Gere kisses the hand of the Dalai Lama as Hollywood legend and devout buddhist celebrates the spiritual leader's 90th birthday in India

Gere, a practicing buddhist since 1978, was seen reverently kissing the spiritual leader's hand at the event, held at Dharamshala.

Politics

5 h. ago Butler by Salena Zito review – how Trump won America’s heartland

From the site of the failed assassination comes a sharp-eyed account of Trump’s political gains – and Democrats’ failings The Democrats’ famed blue wall is more the stuff of nostalgia than reality. On election day 2024, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin voted for Donald Trump for the second time in three elections. Barack Obama’s upstairs-downstairs coalition lies in ruins, as Democrats struggle to connect with working-class voters across racial and ethnic lines.Last November, Trump came within just three points of winning a majority of Latino voters. Such Americans walked away from their presumed political home – in droves. A Trump endorsement by Roberto Clemente Jr, son of the late Pittsburgh Pirates baseball star, was a harbinger. Likewise, Trump posted double-digit gains among Catholics and Jews, once core constituencies in the Democratic party of FDR.Butler is published in the US by Hachette Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Reuters’ X accounts blocked in India amid confusion over ‘legal demand’

Ministry denies issuing legal order as users question sudden block

Politics

5 h. ago Ealing could face legal action over children's centres closures

Ealing could face legal action over children's centres closures  BBC

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6 h. ago Dining across the divide: ‘He was a “Stop the boats” person’

With immigration, universal tax rises and big tech on the menu, could a Tory IT director and a Labour-voting financial services technician find anything to agree on?Matt, 52, Leek, StaffordshireOccupation Account director in the IT sector Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Dalai Lama marks 90th birthday amid rising tensions over succession

Global tributes pour in as succession battle with China looms

Events

6 h. ago Brad Marchand’s wife Katrina Marchand posts delightful video of NHL star playing table tennis in London

Brad Marchand’s wife Katrina Marchand posts delightful video of NHL star playing table tennis in London  Times of India

Politics

6 h. ago Richard Gere pays tribute to Dalai Lama at leader’s 90th birthday

Hollywood actor and practicing Buddhist Richard Gere paid tribute to the Dalai Lama at his 90th birthday celebrations in Dharamshala, India on Sunday (6 July).

Politics

7 h. ago London council faces legal action after installing road crossing in colours of transgender pride flag

The local authority installed the blue, pink and white painted crossing in Bloomsbury at a cost of £10,464

Politics

7 h. ago Tories demand foreigners are banned from getting disability benefits as Kemi Badenoch seeks to tighten access to handouts after Labour's U

Kemi Badenoch 's party will attempt to change the Government's welfare Bill to tighten access to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Universal Credit.

Events

8 h. ago As if graduating weren’t daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI | Connor Myers

With big accountancy and finance firms turning to tech rather than graduates, even those with ‘useful’ degrees find their prospects diminishedConnor Myers is a student at the University of Exeter and an intern on the Guardian’s positive action schemeSeptember is the beginning of many young people’s lives, as cars speed along motorways transporting 18- and 19-year-olds to their new university accommodations. I remember my own journey down to Exeter in 2022, the first stage in what I hoped would be an experience to set me up for the rest of my life. Little did I know that this was the calm before the storm, before anyone had heard of ChatGPT, or imagined the chaos that generative AI was about to cause for new graduates.Fast forward to 2025, and some of the young people I began this journey with have realised that they’ve spent the last three years training for graduate jobs that don’t exist. Many firms are now slashing their number of new hires. Big accountancy firms have cut back on ...

Society

9 h. ago Fears death row triple murderer's heart implant could shock him 'over and over'

Death row inmate, Byron Black is set to be executed next month for a triple murder in 1987 - but his legal team fear his heart implant will make his end a 'gruesome spectacle'

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