33 m. ago Scottish Election 2026: Anas Sarwar promises ‘big change’ if Labour wins Holyrood elections

Scottish Labour leader promised he would lead “a government that works as hard as the people it serves”.

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2 h. ago Rugby tickets, £90 chocolates, and hampers gifted to Welsh Government staff

Gifts ranged from tickets to Wales rugby games worth hundreds of pounds to two boxes of Christmas chocolates valued at £90

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3 h. ago RFK Jr. says he's following 'gold standard' science. Here's what to know

President Donald Trump and his Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. say they want the government to follow “gold standard” science

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3 h. ago The Kremlin says the internet is turned off to stop drone attacks. Russians are fed up

Russia's government is tightening its internet control, with widespread outages and restrictions already defining 2025 for its citizens. These pervasive measures are impacting daily life, from public transport to critical health monitoring.

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4 h. ago Father and son trafficked £20m worth of heroin in fruit juice cartons

Colin Bartlett, 54, and Lee Bartlett, 30, were part of an organised crime group that used a front company to import pomegranate drinks laced with the deadly drug in shipping containers from Afghanistan

Economics

6 h. ago ‘Superfluous consumerism’: adult Advent calendar trend alarms green groups

Trend is adding to ‘waste crisis’ owing to individual packaging and potential for unwanted items, campaigners sayThe trend for Advent calendars aimed at adults is “superfluous consumerism” that adds to excessive and wasteful consumption, according to environmental groups.While once children excitedly opened a door each day to see what festive picture lay behind it, adults can now count down the days to Christmas with calendars containing everything from luxury beauty products to instant mashed potato. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Greek secondary school teachers to be trained in using AI in classroom

Some teachers and pupils voice concerns about pilot programme after government’s agreement with OpenAI Secondary school teachers in Greece are set to go through an intensive course in using artificial intelligence tools as the country assumes a frontline role in incorporating AI into its education system.Next week, staff in 20 schools will be trained in a specialised version of ChatGPT, custom-made for academic institutions, under a new agreement between the centre-right government and OpenAI. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Johnson says Covid inquiry that criticised chaos in his government ‘muddled’

The former prime minister said the Hallett report should be ‘filed vertically’.

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7 h. ago ‘The public has been lied to’: secretly made documentary insists that aliens exist

The Age of Disclosure is a new film featuring high-ranking government officials who claim proof of extraterrestrial life has been covered upDirector Dan Farah grew up with aliens. As a child of the 80s and 90s, pop culture was awash with extra-terrestrial sightings. “How can you be a kid watching movies like ET and Close Encounters, TV shows like The X Files, and not end up curious about whether or not we’re alone in the universe?” he said in an interview with the Guardian. “And whether or not the US government does, in fact, hold secrets from the public.”Farah’s exposure to otherworldly beings in fiction kickstarted an interest that’s now morphed into a professional quest, and the subject of his documentary debut The Age of Disclosure. Here, Farah makes the case that the United States has been hiding, for decades, a font of information related to UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena) – the acronym rebrand of the stigma-ridden UFO. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago New Caledonia activist says France is impeding travel home after prison release

Exclusive: Kanak leader Christian Tein, who was freed from prison in June, says France is ‘deliberately dragging out’ re-issue of his passportA pro-independence leader from the French overseas territory of New Caledonia has accused the French government of “deliberately dragging out” his passport application, preventing him from flying home after his release from prison.Christian Tein, an Indigenous Kanak leader, was arrested in New Caledonia in June 2024 over allegations that he had instigated the deadly pro-independence protests that had taken place on the island a month earlier. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago ANDREW PIERCE: This is why ZERO Britons think Starmer's Labour government has the ability to make us better off

Has there ever been a more terrible, damning indictment of a government than ZERO people in a poll saying they're optimistic this government can make us feel better off?

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10 h. ago 'Dismay': Teaching union takes Jenny Gilruth to task for 'undermining' pledge on class contact time

The EIS teaching union has taken Jenny Gilruth to task over her decision to announce Scottish Government plans in the media

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11 h. ago Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign from Congress in January amid fallout with Trump

Decision by Georgia Republican and leading Maga figure to give up House seat comes after dramatic break with Trump, lately over the Epstein files billReaction: Trump calls resignation ‘great news for the country’From staunch Trump ally to ‘traitor’: key takeaways of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s careerMarjorie Taylor Greene announced on Friday evening she will be resigning from office effective 5 January 2026, in the wake of souring relations with President Donald Trump, mostly recently over a vote to force the release of files related to the late Jeffrey Epstein.In a four-page statement, the Georgia congresswoman said the legislative branch had been “sidelined” and accused Republican leaders of refusing to advance conservative priorities such as border security or “America First” policies. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Epstein's accusers grapple with complex emotions about promised release of Justice Department files

Trump has signed legislation compelling the Justice Department to release the files on Jeffrey Epstein

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12 h. ago Rachel Reeves needs to put cutting household energy bills at forefront of budget

Record View says if the government doesn't bring gas and electricity bills down, voters will wonder if Labour are serious about the cost-of-living crisis.

Economics

12 h. ago Frustrations grow in Russia over cellphone internet outages that disrupt daily life

When Russians look back at 2025, they might remember it as the year when the government took even tighter control of the internet

Technology

15 h. ago NHS 'kidney' warning for people taking 'widely used' blood pressure drug

More than 34 million prescriptions of the medication were dispensed last year to tackle hypertension and heart failure

Events

16 h. ago Rogue bosses face Budget crackdown with more ‘naming and shaming’ over minimum wage breaches

ROGUE bosses are set for more regular “naming and shaming” to ensure they pay national minimum wage workers the full amount.  Businesses breaking the rules will have no hiding place in a government crackdown on unscrupulous bosses in the Budget. Proposals include more regular rounds of publicly naming employers who have broken the pay rules and short-changed...

Economics

16 h. ago Nigeria reels after 215 children taken in second mass school abduction in a week

Twelve teachers also kidnapped from Catholic school amid threats from Trump to intervene over ‘Christian genocide’Unknown gunmen have abducted 215 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, the second mass abduction in the country in a week.The latest kidnapping, in Papiri community in Niger state, came against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s threat to intervene militarily to end a “Christian genocide”, which the Nigerian government has denied is happening. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Epstein probe: US legislators criticise Andrew ‘silence’ after interview request

Democrats Robert Garcia and Suhas Subramanyam accused Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor of hiding.

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