70 m. ago Major change to contactless payments at Tesco, Aldi and Asda with key date this week

BBC expert says big change at the till is on the horizon and could impact anyone who does their weekly shop at supermarkets like Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons

Politics

2 h. ago Graydon Carter's London guide: the editor and author eats at Maison François and loves Anderson & Sheppard

The author longs for the return of the Draycott, would take a date along the Embankment, and wishes you could still smoke indoors

Culture

2 h. ago Cheers! Residents of tiny Scottish island buy their pub, boasting stunning sea views

The people of Rousay wanted their pub to remain open - so they bought it themselves.

Politics

2 h. ago Netflix has done something truly different with The Four Seasons – this is why it works

Scroll through the streaming services and what do you see? Married at First Sight, Love is Blind, Perfect Match, The Ultimatum: Queer Love, First Dates: our appetite for matchmaking shows seems insatiable. After all, who doesn’t want to see love in the first bloom of spring, when it seems latent with all that unspoken promise, the thrill of adventure and the risk of disaster?

Politics

3 h. ago ‘We’re not here to slander Sondheim!’ Inside the master’s wild final musical, completed at last

Here We Are, a satirical mashup of two surrealist movie masterpieces, was finished after musicals maestro Stephen Sondheim died – outraging some fans. As the show hits Britain, its stars and creators reveal their thrills and fearsThere’s an edge of febrile hilarity in the National Theatre rehearsal room. The company of Here We Are, Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, are off-book and getting the first act on its feet. But hitting your cues in a show as intricate as this is tough, whoever you are.Jane Krakowski fluffs an entrance and tries not to corpse. Martha Plimpton raises a glass a second after everyone else, and a cast-mate blows a raspberry from the sidelines. Jesse Tyler Ferguson is convinced it’s not him who is a beat off. “Do it exactly like Rory does,” suggests director Joe Mantello, and Rory Kinnear responds mock-haughtily: “That’s just a general note.” Continue reading...

Politics

3 h. ago New UK weather maps show exact date and time 27C scorcher to hit Brits

Temperatures are set to explode close to 30C next week as early maps show practically all of the country is set to enjoy warm conditions, to the joy of most people

Events

6 h. ago 'He invited another woman to join our table': Read our shocking

Every week, FEMAIL asks two singletons to report back from their blind date. This time Cristina, 44, and Kamlesh, 52, recall their encounter and reveal if they clicked.

Events

7 h. ago Director Wes Anderson reveals Gene Hackman’s verdict on The Royal Tenenbaums

Bill Murray previously said Hackman was ‘really rough’ on the director during the making of the 2001 film

Politics

7 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Repair Shop: VE Day Special on BBC1: For sheer emotional impact, VE Day special was Repair Shop's best yet

As eloquent as any oratory was the stunned silence on The Repair Shop : VE Day Special, as a man named Eddy was presented with a display case for his father's World War II medals.

Politics

8 h. ago Don't Let It Be! Son of legendary Beatles producer demands Labour 'listen to artists' as he joins Mail campaign against controversial AI proposals

Giles Martin used Artificial Intelligence to 'reunite' The Beatles for the John Lennon hit Now And Then two years ago, but warns Labour 's plan for the technology 'makes no sense at all'.

Politics

8 h. ago Amish man's stunned mugshot as he's charged with murder that shocked notoriously private community

Samuel Hochstetler, 18, was detained on Monday and charged with murder in the suspicious death of 28-year-old Rosanna Kinsinger.

Events

8 h. ago PSG vs Arsenal LIVE: Champions League result, match stream and latest updates today

Gunners fail in comeback mission as Paris Saint-Germain book final date with Inter Milan in Munich

Sport

9 h. ago Katie Price says she 'wants to date a man who's been around the block' in latest confession

Katie Price has been open about her love life over the years, and has now revealed that she asks potential boyfriends how many people they've slept with before she'll date them

Politics

9 h. ago FBI director says bureau needs more funding than what Trump administration budget proposal calls for

FBI Director Kash Patel is breaking with the Trump administration over a budget proposal that would dramatically slash funding for the bureau

Politics

10 h. ago Tulsi Gabbard used the same easily cracked password for years for different online accounts, report says

The revelation comes months after a report revealed that the director of national intelligence was involved in the infamous Signal group chat

Politics

10 h. ago Kieran Tierney stung by anticlimactic Arsenal ending as returning Celtic hero's dreams dashed

The Scotland defender has missed out on the chance to bow out of the Emirates as a Champions League winner

Politics

11 h. ago ‘You were much better at the Electric Slide’ Bessent reveals to Waters they partied together years ago

Scott Bessent surprised Rep. Maxine Waters during a House committee hearing with the revelation that they had partied together years before in the Bahamas.

Politics

11 h. ago Black smoke emerges at Vatican as conclave fails to elect pope – live

Cardinals will be back for more votes tomorrow with up to four rounds of votingWho will be the next pope? Potential candidatesPapal in-tray: new pontiff will have to hit ground runningHow does the conclave work?If you’d rather get up to date on the pomp and the politics of the conclave, the process to elect Pope Francis’s successor, good news: we’ve got you covered.It is, as Guardian journalist Harriet Sherwood explains, an election rich in ceremony and ritual. Yet it can get very dirty too: cardinals lobbying in corridors and Vatican gardens; allegations of leaks to the media to discredit rivals; even the emergence of a video of one cardinal – a bookies’ favourite to be the next pope – singing ‘atheist anthem’ Imagine by John Lennon. Continue reading...

Events

12 h. ago The Guardian view on bias in medical research: disregard for women’s health belongs in the past | Editorial

It is shocking that while illnesses specific to men are studied, those affecting women are ignoredSix years after Caroline Criado Perez’s bestselling book Invisible Women drew a mass readership’s attention to the long history of sexist bias in medical research, it is shocking that women and their illnesses are still underrepresented in clinical trials. Analysis by the Guardian of data gathered for a new study showed that from 2019 to 2023, 282 trials involving only male subjects were submitted for regulatory approval in the UK – compared with 169 focused on women.Health inequality is a complex and multifaceted problem. There are massive socioeconomic differences in life expectancy and infant mortality, as well as race inequalities – for example, in maternity and mental illnesses. These and other disparities, along with those relating to disability, can also be mapped geographically. Continue reading...

Science

13 h. ago World's first 'nature powered' photoshoot showcases incredible new electric car

The world's first photoshoot 'powered by nature' has taken place, showcasing a whole new way of producing energy - and the results are stunning

Culture