27 m. ago Prince William calls for urgent action to save world’s oceans ‘diminishing before our eyes’

‘This challenge is like none we have faced before,’ Prince of Wales says in Monaco speech

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10 h. ago Prince William calls for urgent global action to save oceans

‘The ocean is under enormous threat, but it can revive itself. Only if together, we act now’

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22 h. ago Pioneering device could help patients with Parkinson's, which affects 150,000 people in the UK, to walk again

Nearly 150,000 people in the UK suffer from Parkinson's disease, a degenerative condition that can cause tremors, muscle stiffness and slowness of movement as nerve cells in the brain die.

Science

30 h. ago MPs could vote to force government to build 150,000 social homes a year

A proposed change to the Planning and Infrastructure bill would demand a 150,000 target for building social homes this Parliament

Politics

32 h. ago Ajax striker Brian Brobbey was the ‘target of violent extortion threats’

Brobbey allegedly blackmailed by Amsterdam criminalIncidents included arson, explosions and a shootingThe Ajax striker Brian Brobbey has been the target of violent extortion threats involving arson, explosions and a shooting, according to reports in the Netherlands.Het Parool reports that the attacks on Brobbey came after he allegedly refused to pay €150,000 to an Amsterdam criminal who claimed to have “solved a problem” for him. Continue reading...

Events

52 h. ago Between ‘rollover UK’ and ‘retaliatory China’: will EU hardball secure trade deal with US?

Optimism is growing in Brussels, but high-risk strategy has only weeks to play out before pause in tariff threat endsIn Brussels’ corridors of power, quiet optimism is growing that the EU’s hardball strategy to secure a US trade deal is working. While Britain quickly moved to try to cushion the impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs with a deal agreed last month – and US-Chinese relations are a tit-for-tat situation – the EU has taken a different stance. “We are positioning ourselves between ‘rollover UK’ and ‘retaliatory China’,” said a Brussels source.The stakes are not just the £706bn in transatlantic trade between the EU and US but the fallout from what diplomats and businesses say is a dangerous assault on the global rules-based system that governs western democracy. Continue reading...

Economics

3 d. ago Trump says he'll visit China with Melania after 'very good' phone call with Xi Jinping to work out trade deal

President Donald Trump confirmed Thursday that he had spoken by phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping amid trade uncertainty.

Economics

3 d. ago Millions of Brits heading to Portugal can use eGates at Faro airport and avoid lengthy Brexit border queues

The new arrangements come after the UK and EU agreed a new trade deal

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3 d. ago Trump and China’s Xi speak after president calls trade adversary ‘extremely hard to make deal with’

US, Chinese leaders speak after Trump calls Xi ‘very tough’ on Truth Social

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4 d. ago Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ could add $2.4tn to national debt, nonpartisan analysis says – US politics live

Congressional Budget Office assessment comes as Musk is among prominent critics of the bill; Mexico says it will act over tariffs if no trade deal agreedThe Trump administration has reversed its decision to revoke the legal status of a four-year-old girl, receiving continuing life-saving treatment in the US, and her family after a national outcry.Deysi Vargas, her husband and their daughter – whom lawyers identified by the pseudonym Sofia – had come to the US in 2023 to seek medical care for their daughter who has a rare condition that requires specialized treatment. But in April, the federal government ended their humanitarian parole, a temporary status granted to people on urgent humanitarian grounds, and ordered them to “self-deport”. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Keir Starmer promises Donald Trump trade deal will be in force in 'very short time'

The PM insisted the government is "working on it" to bring steel tariffs down to zero - as he promised when the deal was announced last month

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4 d. ago PMQs: Keir Starmer trumpets UK as 'only country in world' spared Donald Trump's 50% steel tariff

Gareth Stace, the director general of UK Steel, said that Donald Trump’s decision is a ‘welcome pause’

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4 d. ago Starmer admits finalising his US trade deal could take WEEKS after Trump spares UK steel industry from latest 50% tariffs

Donald Trump is offering 'different treatment' to Britain after doubling tariffs on imports from other countries to 50 per cent.

Economics

4 d. ago Hideaway holiday park nightmare leaves couple with devastating £150,000 loss

A devastated couple claim they have been left with an unsellable lodge - translating to £150,000 in losses - after years of reliably taking in earnings from an investment

Economics

4 d. ago UK steel industry welcomes Donald Trump decision not to impose 50% tariffs but ‘uncertainty remains’

Donald Trump has decided to 'provide different treatment' to the UK with a trade deal still to be finalised

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4 d. ago Why Starmer has five weeks to prove his Trump trade deal is worth the paper it’s written on

The intense talks on Tuesday night may have been about stopping 50 per cent steel tariffs, but at the heart of it whether politicians can prove their credibility, says political editor David Maddox

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4 d. ago Relief as Trump spares UK steel industry from latest 50% tariffs

Donald Trump is offering 'different treatment' to Britain after doubling tariffs on imports from other countries to 50 per cent.

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4 d. ago Britain spared Trump's new 50% steel tariffs but industry remains gripped by uncertainty

Gareth Stace, the director general of UK Steel, said that Donald Trump’s decision is a ‘welcome pause’

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4 d. ago Trump is ‘obsessed’ about having a call with China’s Xi this week to hammer out trade deal, insiders reveal

A person familiar with the matter reportedly said the administration is “under a lot of pressure” following China’s critical minerals blockade

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4 d. ago British industry exempted from Trump’s doubling of steel tariffs

But UK bosses are pressing Sir Keir Starmer for a rapid implementation of the trade deal agreed with the president

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