Category: Politics

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 20 min Lyon win a couple of corners on the left. The second is headed away as far as Almada on the edge of the D; he spanks a half-volley into orbit. Share Updated at 21.21 CEST 18 min: Big chance for […]

As John Lennon sang, life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans. His lyric must be ringing in ministers’ ears this week. The UK’s last two blast furnaces – the final embers of a 160-year industrial legacy – may go cold within weeks. British Steel, which is owned by China’s Jingye, has reportedly cancelled […]

If it’s brown, lie down. If it’s black, fight back. If it’s white, say goodnight. The rhyme we learned hiking as a family through Yellowstone national park last summer is meant as a cheery reminder of how not to get eaten, if you meet a bear. Brown bears are best appeased by playing dead; black […]

House adopts budget resolution, paving way for work to begin on Trump’s tax and spending cuts The vote was close, 216-214, with only two Republicans in the end voting no and two not voting. Share Updated at 17.19 CEST Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature A judge in […]

Apple is reportedly chartering cargo flights to ferry iPhones from its Indian manufacturing plants to the US in an attempt to beat Donald Trump’s tariffs. The tech company has flown 600 tonnes of iPhones, or as many as 1.5m handsets, to the US from India since March after ramping up production at its plants in […]

The videos are across Chinese social media. Some are slickly produced Russian propaganda about being “tough” men; some sound more like influencer advertisements for a working holiday. Others are cobbled-together screenshots by regular citizens about to leave China. But they all have one thing in common: selling the benefits of becoming a Chinese mercenary for […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Erstwhile champions are out and about, and three of them have joined the leading pack with an early birdie. Mike Weir, who became the first left-handed player to win the Masters in 2003, has birdied 3, while the 2007 champion Zach […]

France could recognise Palestinian state ‘in June’: Macron France plans to recognise a Palestinian state within months and could make the move at a UN conference in New York in June on settling the Israel-Palestinian conflict, president Emmanuel Macron said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday. “We must move towards recognition, and we will do […]

Andrew Tate told a woman he was “debating whether to rape you or not” before he strangled and forced himself upon her, according to one of four women suing the self-proclaimed misogynistic influencer. He is also accused of whispering “good girl” as he raped a woman he employed at his webcam business whom he had […]

Moscow has released a US-Russian dual national, Ksenia Karelina, who had been detained in Russia, the US secretary of state has said after a Wall Street Journal report that a prisoner swap had been agreed. Marco Rubio wrote on the social media platform X: “American Ksenia Karelina is on a plane back home to the […]