7 h. ago Assisted dying bill 'risks running out of time to become law' after Lords delays

The assisted dying bill has entered it's committee stage with around 1,000 amendments put forward by members of the House of Lords; a record number of proposed changes prompting fears they will hold up the historic law change

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14 h. ago US trial of Lockerbie bombing suspect delayed for second time

The trial of Libyan national Abu Agila Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, known as Mas'ud, has been delayed again.

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3 d. ago Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith

The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced prioritiesYou know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little isl...

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3 d. ago Doctors' strikes 'couldn't come at worse time for NHS' amid winter pressures and increased delays for patients, warns boss

The strike 'threatens to wipe out a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fix our national health service', warns one NHS boss

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4 d. ago Court makes bombshell ruling in case of Madeleine McCann prime suspect

Court says restrictions would breach his right to freedom of movement

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7 d. ago Grand Theft Auto 6 is DELAYED yet again: Release date for the highly anticipated game is pushed back to November 2026

Grand Theft Auto 6 has been delayed yet again - this time until November 2026, its creators have announced.

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8 d. ago Rockstar Games delays Grand Theft Auto VI – again – to late 2026

The hugely anticipated sequel was due to arrive in May of next year but has been pushed back to November 2026Rockstar Games’s Grand Theft Auto VI, which was due to release on 26 May next year, has been delayed again – this time to the end of 2026. It has now been nearly two years since the game was announced, and more than 12 years since the release of Grand Theft Auto V.“Grand Theft Auto VI will now release on Thursday, November 19, 2026,” reads Rockstar Games’s statement on X. “We are sorry for adding additional time to what we realize has been a long wait, but these extra months will allow us to finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve.” Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago FBI releases new footage and offers $500K for information about suspect who placed pipe bombs ahead of Jan 6 riots

The FBI has shared new surveillance footage of the suspect who planted pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican National Committee headquarters, the night before the January 6 riots, and offered a $500,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

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3 w. ago Video: Suspect plants pipe bombs near DNC day before Capitol riots

The FBI has released new footage as they continue to investigate who planted pipe bombs at the offices of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Republican National Committee (RNC) on 5 January 2021 – a day before the Capitol Building insurrection.

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4 w. ago China threatens Britain with 'consequences' if its controversial plans for mega

Beijing makes threat after Government delayed decision on super embassy in east London for a second time

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4 w. ago Decision on China super embassy in London delayed for second time amid spy row

A ruling on the controversial plans has been pushed back amid concerns over national security

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