55 m. ago Construction intensifies at site linked to Israel's suspected nuclear program, satellite photos show

Satellite images show that construction work has intensified on a major new structure at a facility key to Israel’s long-suspected atomic weapons program

Culture

84 m. ago Xi, Putin and Kim: behind the choreographed image that could symbolise a shift in the global balance of power

In an unprecedented spectacle the leaders of Russia, China and North Korea led a group of more than 20 world leaders at a victory day parade in BeijingFull report: Xi Jinping appears with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un at China military paradeIt is an image that, had it been published just a few years ago, would have been dismissed as a piece of mischievous photo-shopping: the leaders of Russia and China, accompanied by the head of a pariah regime whose mission to arm his country with nuclear weapons had been opposed at the United Nations by his two companions.But dramatic shifts in the geopolitical landscape – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and, crucially, the re-election of Donald Trump – have combined to bring Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un together in what many observers are calling a dramatic redrawing of the global balance of power. Continue reading...

Politics

2 h. ago China military parade live: Xi unveils new nuclear missile flanked by Putin and Kim

Xi Jinping warns world must ‘choose between peace and war’ as he presides over huge show of force flanked by Russian and North Korean counterparts in Tiananmen Square

Events

4 h. ago Moment suspect flees undercover cops during car stop arrest attempt in North London

Witnesses shared footage of a man escaping from his car as swooped on the High Road in North Finchley at about 12noon on Tuesday.

Events

6 h. ago Trump shooting suspect offers round of golf to settle case and calls president a 'baboon' in deranged filing

Ryan Wesley Routh filed a deranged motion requesting strippers and a putting green for his imagined extravaganza, just days before his criminal trial was due to begin.

Politics

6 h. ago UK does not know exact cost of Afghan data breach, watchdog says

Defence ministry has not demonstrated that an immigration scheme would have a £850mn price tag, NAO finds

Politics

6 h. ago More than 7,300 Afghans to be resettled in UK after MoD data leak, says National Audit Office

Watchdog’s report says government is unable to calculate exact cost of response to data breach, raising doubt over £850m estimateMore than 7,300 Afghans are expected to be resettled in the UK as a result of a major government data breach, according to a National Audit Office report that raises doubts over officials’ claims of a £850m cost.The accidental leak by an MoD official in 2022 of 18,700 Afghans’ details who had worked with or for the British government led to the opening of a new route by which those endangered could seek relocation to the UK from their home country. Continue reading...

Politics

6 h. ago Ministry of Defence does not know how much has been spent on bringing data

Britain’s spending watchdog says it does not have ‘confidence’ in the accuracy of MoD’s estimates

Politics

6 h. ago Cost of Afghan data breach scheme unknown to Government – watchdog

The amount spent on the scheme was not recorded separately to other resettlement activity following the fall of Kabul, the NAO said.

Politics

7 h. ago Marseille stabbings: Knifeman shot dead by police after five people wounded in hotel rampage

The suspect, a Tunisian national, is understood to have been evicted from the hotel for unpaid rent

Events

9 h. ago UN watchdog finds uranium traces at suspected Syrian former nuclear site

The United Nations' nuclear watchdog reports finding traces of uranium at a site in Syria

Events

11 h. ago Suspect locked up for alleged crime spree faces murder charges after pregnant woman found dead in abandoned car

James ‘Jaime’ Benavidez, 50, is accused of murdering 32-year-old Keeley Koff

Events

12 h. ago A House of Dynamite review – Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white

Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Tracy Letts star in this immaculately constructed nightmare procedural that ticks down the minutes from an atomic bomb’s launch to its detonationKathryn Bigelow has reopened the subject that we all tacitly agree not to discuss or imagine, in the movies or anywhere else: the subject of an actual nuclear strike. It’s the subject which tests narrative forms and thinkability levels. Maybe this is why we prefer to see it as something for absurdism and satire – a way of not staring into the sun – to remember Kubrick’s (brilliant) black comedy Dr Strangelove, with no fighting in the war room etc, rather than Lumet’s deadly serious Fail Safe. Bigelow, with screenwriter Noah Oppenheim, broaches one of the most frightening thoughts of all: that a nuclear war could or rather will start with no one knowing who started it or who ended it. I watched this film with translucently white knuckles but also that strange climbing nausea that only this topic can create.Th...

Events

13 h. ago Knife rampage leaves multiple injured in Marseille before police shoot attacker dead

Several people were injured during a knife rampage in Marseille today, before police shot the suspected attacker dead.

Events

14 h. ago Police Scotland stop over 300 vehicles as hunt for missing Glasgow busker continues

Specialist search teams, air support unit drones and officers on quad bikes have assisted in efforts to trace the missing man.

Events

14 h. ago Alan Kurdi’s father’s harrowing plea for refugee compassion resurfaces on 10

The father of Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian boy who drowned as his family tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, made a desperate plea for compassion for refugees in a resurfaced video.

Events

15 h. ago Children's hospital nurse caught in £200k cocaine and ecstasy raid

Kiran Farooq, who worked at Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Children was caught by cops after they witnessed a suspected drugs deal.

Economics

17 h. ago I saw my neighbour throw rubbish in my skip but he denies it. What can I do? DEAN DUNHAM replies

My neighbour threw an old carpet and wooden boards into my skip when he thought no one was looking. I saw him, but he denies it. What can I do?

Politics

17 h. ago I saw my neighbour throw rubbish in my skip but he denies it. What can I do? Lawyer DEAN DUNHAM reveals the nuclear option that WILL get results...

My neighbour threw an old carpet and wooden boards into my skip when he thought no one was looking. I saw him, but he denies it. What can I do?

Events

18 h. ago Voices: So David Cameron, is this dead Syrian child one of the 'swarm' of migrants you fear so much?

In a piece published on the day Alan Kurdi died, former columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown wrote that those who have decided not to care will not be moved - but this should be moment when Britain finally finds its compassion

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