33 m. ago Why Liverpool need to be patient before Alexander Isak plan is revealed

Liverpool were ruthless in shattering the British transfer record but their deadline-day recruit arrives short on match fitness

Science

2 h. ago Lawsuit says US held West African migrants in straitjackets for 16 hours on flight to Ghana

A lawsuit says some West Africans who were deported to Ghana were held in “straitjackets” for 16 hours on a U.S. military plane on which all passengers were shackled and given only bread and water

Events

3 h. ago London strip club faces opposition to licence renewal as hundreds object

Public backlash to plans for The Nags Head in Whitechapel Road to renew its sexual entertainment venue licence for another year

Politics

3 h. ago The world's tallest sunflower blooms in an Indiana backyard as a tribute to Ukraine

When Alex Babich looks up at the 35-foot sunflower towering over his Fort Wayne, Indiana, backyard, he sees more than just a plant

Politics

4 h. ago Trump health officials will link dozens of child deaths to Covid vaccines, report claims

Trump administration health agencies like the FDA have announced plans to link Covid vaccines to the deaths of over two dozen children, sources familiar with the matter have revealed.

Politics

4 h. ago Man arrested in Greater Manchester over allegations of race fixing

Officers swopped in a village in Bury this morning

Sport

4 h. ago Local communities urge councillors to approve major South Lanarkshire wind farm

A recommendation for objection has been published in South Lanarkshire Council’s draft planning committee report outlining concerns related to aviation, defence and landscape impacts.

Politics

4 h. ago Canada Water: Transforming London's Rotherhithe Peninsula with Green Spaces, Mixed

Canada Water: Transforming London's Rotherhithe Peninsula with Green Spaces, Mixed-Use Planning, and Historic Significance  Urban Land Magazine

Events

4 h. ago Every bus cancelled including school services as 2,000 Bee Network drivers prepare to strike

Travellers are being urged to plan ahead as transport is expected to busier than normal

Events

4 h. ago The Guardian view on Bolsonaro’s coup conviction: a landmark for Brazilian democracy – but this fight isn’t over | Editorial

Though the far-right former president has been held accountable for overseeing the plot, supporters at home and abroad still rally to his causeA populist president refused to accept his defeat at the ballot box, insisting that the election had been stolen. A far-right mob stormed the country’s institutions in his support. Yet democracy prevailed. And then, on Thursday, Brazil’s supreme court sentenced the former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for leading a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2022 elections and “annihilate” democracy through a coup. The sprawling plot was both modern and crudely old school – extending from an online disinformation campaign to undermine faith in the voting system, to aborted plans to assassinate the newly elected president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, and the supreme court justice investigating Bolsonaro. It culminated in the riots in Brasília in January 2023.Four of the five judges on the panel found Bolsonaro guilty...

Politics

4 h. ago New wedding and events venue could be coming to Greater Manchester town

The plan would see the old Conservative club transformed

Politics

4 h. ago Nebraska plan for an immigrant detention center faces backlash and uncertainty

Some Nebraska lawmakers and residents say the Republican governor's plan to convert a prison into an immigration detention center has come with few details about the transition

Events

5 h. ago Cocaine kingpin who posed for surfing snaps while his hapless minions were chased onto beach and arrested over £18m drugs plot is jailed for 16 years

Alex Fowlie, 35, of Chichester bragged to accomplices there was 'zero f*****g risk' as he helped engineer a plan to bring £18.4million of drugs from South America into the UK.

Events

5 h. ago Three Tui flights diverted after storms surround Manchester Airport

After a refuel in Newcastle, the planes landed back in Manchester as the storms cleared

Events

6 h. ago Keir Starmer 'blocks green energy plant backed by Ed Miliband in favour of AI growth zone' as he seeks economic boost

The PM is said to have overruled the Energy and Net Zero Secretary over plans for BP's H2Teesside 'blue' hydrogen plant.

Economics

6 h. ago ‘We’ve got to protect this land’: Campaigners vow to fight plan for 350 homes on vast patch of green belt next to M66

Around 130 people attended a public meeting to oppose the proposals

Politics

6 h. ago UN urges UK government to scrap welfare cuts over human rights concerns

Experts say they are ‘dismayed’ at the government’s language around planned changes to benefits

Politics

7 h. ago Sadiq Khan admits knowing since last year of police station desk closure plans

Sadiq Khan admits knowing since last year of police station desk closure plans  London Evening Standard

Events

7 h. ago Fury as Sadiq Khan admits he's known since last year of plans to close half of London police stations

Asked why he had broken a manifesto pledge to keep a 24-hour police front office counter in every borough, mayor says: ‘When the facts change, I change my mind’

Events

7 h. ago Aldi confirms more than 1,000 stores to temporarily close later this year

Aldi has announced the temporary closure of all its 1,050 UK stores from Christmas Eve to December 27, allowing staff a well-earned festive break.

Politics