Category: Politics

The architect of a parliamentary bill to legalise assisted dying has invited the archbishop of Canterbury to meet her after he described a change in the law as dangerous. Kim Leadbeater’s letter follows Justin Welby’s intervention in the debate over assisted dying, in which he said the MP’s private member’s bill would lead to a […]

The Simply Be and JD Williams fashion retailer N Brown has agreed a £191m takeover by a member of its founding family, Joshua Alliance. Alliance will pay 40p in cash for each share of N Brown stock not already owned by himself and his family. Alliance, who is a non-executive director of N Brown, already […]

Introduction: European Central Bank expected to cut interest rates today Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy. The welcome slowdown in global inflation is clearing the way for central banks to pull down interest rates, and today the spotlight falls on the European Central Bank. […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 65th over: England 287-9 (Leach 21, Bashir 9) Bashir gets down to sweep Sajid firmly for his first boundary. Cricket is a ridiculous game: last week Harry Brook scored a triple century, this week he’s no better with the bat than […]

Donald Trump – who has built his presidential campaign on the idea that immigrants are “destroying” the US and promoting mass deportation – faced blunt, tough questions from undecided Hispanic voters on Tuesday. At a town hall hosted by Univision, the largest US Spanish-language network, several dozen Latino voters from across the country questioned the […]

US long-range B-2 stealth bombers strike Houthi underground weapons storage facilities in Yemen The US military has struck Houthi weapons storage facilities within Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, the Pentagon says. US defence secretary Lloyd Austin said the US military, including air force B-2 bombers, conducted precision strikes against five hardened underground weapons storage locations in […]

Breakthroughs sometimes turn up in unexpected places. The researchers working on the international push to bring back the thylacine say theirs turned up in a long-ignored bucket in the back of a cupboard at a Melbourne museum. It contained an astonishingly well-preserved head of the extinct marsupial, also known as the Tasmanian tiger. “It was […]

Australia is to give 49 superseded M1A1 tanks to Ukraine, whose president sent his thanks for the “brave” donation which he described as essential assistance in its defence against Russia’s invasion. Some will need refurbishment first, or could be used for spare parts as Ukrainian soldiers are already using American M1A1 tanks, also known as […]

Genaro Garcia Luna, the official who for several years led Mexico’s fight against the country’s violent drug trade, was sentenced to more than 38 years in US prison for accepting bribes from the cartels he was supposed to fight. The US district judge Brian Cogan announced the sentence at a hearing in Brooklyn federal court […]

Britain’s new national energy company will eventually become a major power generator, running its own windfarms, tidal power and carbon capture schemes and potentially borrowing its own money, according to its new chair. Jürgen Maier, the chair of Great British Energy (GBE), told the Guardian in an interview that his vision for the company far […]