70 m. ago 'Insanely comfy' £24 trousers Amazon users are bagging for 'long haul flights'

These "buttery soft" wide-leg trousers will see you through travel season.

Economics

2 h. ago Beleaguered Hammersmith Bridge reopens for cyclists after £2.9million refurb

The 138-year-old bridge in west London, which links Hammersmith to Barnes, has been closed off to cars since April 2019 after engineers discovered issues in its construction.

Economics

5 h. ago Football news: Luis Enrique fires Arsenal warning as Ange Postecoglou dismisses Spurs concerns

Arsenal host PSG in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final clash next week, but Luis Enrique has warned the Gunners they will not be given an easy ride

Events

7 h. ago ‘You can let go now’: inside the hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain

In a Danish palliative care unit, the alternative to assisted dying is not striving to cure, offering relief and comfort to patients and their families• This article is nominated for the 2025 edition of the European Press Prize in the Distinguished Reporting category. Originally published in Danish by PolitikenRené Damgaard, 67, lies in a hospital bed in the palliative care unit at Hvidovre hospital outside Copenhagen. It’s the first evening of May, and the window is open, letting mild air and the sound of a blackbird singing into the room.“This is the kind of weather you love the most. When you usually stand and fish at the sandbank,” says his niece, 53-year-old Mette Damgaard. She is leaning over the bed, her face very close to his. She has been sitting like this for a long time. Continue reading...

Events

7 h. ago It turns out you’re never too old to go Interrailing around Europe | Phil Mongredien

Having missed out in my youth, I thought that was that – until I took a revelatory trip with my sons. We’re going again this yearYouth might not be wasted on the young, but for the longest time I thought Interrailing was. When I was a student, as the 1980s became the 1990s, many of my friends took the opportunity to discover Europe by train and they all returned with amazing stories of discovery. But for long-forgotten reasons, it was something I was always going to do but never actually got round to. And then suddenly I was in my late 20s and reluctantly resigned myself to never doing it, having been reliably informed by so many people that it was an opportunity only open to those under the age of 26.Fast forward a few decades to spring 2023 and I’m trying to decide where to take my teenage children for our first holiday in five years – a gap caused largely, but not wholly, by the pandemic. My most memorable childhood holiday had come in 1981 when, over the course of a few days, my...

Events

8 h. ago Martin Clunes makes heartbreaking discovery as he meets man who tried to take own life

Embarking on a new journey to the most remote corners of the Atlantic, Martin Clunes came face-to-face of the sobering reality behind island life as it can take a mental toll.

Politics

8 h. ago Martin Clunes makes sobering discovery as he meets man who tried to end his life

Martin Clunes travels to the Islands of the Atlantic in a new season of his travel series. In Greenland he speaks to a man who tried to end his life as a result of island living.

Politics

8 h. ago 'I thought I was dying and it took me years to discover what was wrong'

Louis Watkins, 24, from Newport, was convinced he was suffering a heart attack and became a 'shell of myself'

Events

10 h. ago Australia’s student strikers for climate believed they could change their future. Where are they now?

Young people rode a wave of hope and power when hundreds of thousands protested with them in 2019. Then, momentum was lostGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastOn a stinking hot November day, seven years ago, Grace Vegesana and a handful of other young climate activists set up a small stage in a large square in Sydney’s CBD – and waited. Inspired by the first school striker for climate, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, the high school students decided to organise their own rally.Vegesana expected a hundred people to show up. Five thousand came. “It was like, oh my God, we’ve unleashed some kind of beast, people want more,” she recalls. In the months afterwards crowds doubled and then tripled. Continue reading...

Society

11 h. ago Harvard sues Trump administration over move to freeze $2.2 billion in funding

President Trump halted funding after the storied institution vowed to defy his administration's demands to limit student activism on campus.

Economics

12 h. ago Harvard sues Trump over $2.2 billion funding freeze as free speech battle heats up between White House and Ivy League school

Trump administration officials had demanded that the prestigious university crack down on student protests and screen international applicants for their political opinions

Economics

14 h. ago Inside Iceland's second city's football clubs and the unique challenges from the frozen north

EXCLUSIVE Daily Star Sport recently took a trip to the frozen north and discovered the unique challenges that face football clubs stranded on the edge of the world

Politics

15 h. ago Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says

The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said Monday

Politics

15 h. ago 'Stupid' drug trafficker posed with shotgun and spelt out his initials with bullets

Gang member Joshua Caldwell was found to be linked to a major drugs conspiracy after pictures of firearms were discovered on a seized phone.

Events

16 h. ago My daughter wouldn't be alive today if it weren't for her quick

Lily McGarry, 23, a third-year medic at Cardiff University, was rushed to A&E with flu-like symptoms in January by her student doctor friends.

Politics

17 h. ago Family of student shot and stabbed to death in Peckham 10 years ago launch fresh appeal

Ola Raji, 21, was attacked and killed in Peckham, south London in 2015

Society

17 h. ago 'My sister's only cancer symptom was terrifyingly easy to miss

When 'fit and healthy' Kate Drummond began experiencing back pain, doctors misdiagnosed her with sciatica, not realising that she had a 'grapefruit-sized' tumour in her pelvis

Events

17 h. ago Banned DDT discovered in Canadian trout 70 years after use, research finds

Potential danger to humans and wildlife from harmful pesticide discovered in fish at 10 times safety limitResidues of the insecticide DDT have been found to persist at “alarming rates” in trout even after 70 years, potentially posing a significant danger to humans and wildlife that eat the fish, research has found.Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, known as DDT, was used on forested land in New Brunswick, Canada, from 1952 to 1968. The researchers found traces of it remained in brook trout in some lakes, often at levels 10 times higher than the recommended safety threshold for wildlife. Continue reading...

Events

18 h. ago Doctors discover new cause of autism: 'Fourteen times more likely'

People with a little-known genetic muscle condition may be 14 times more likely to develop autism, a study published this week from the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) suggests.

Politics

18 h. ago Family of student murdered in London 10 years ago make fresh appeal for help

Family of student murdered in London 10 years ago make fresh appeal for help  The Guardian

Society