Angela Eagle tells industry ‘people are sick of excuses’ as pollution levels remain high despite billions in investmentAngela Eagle, the environment secretary, has summoned water industry bosses to Whitehall after a report found that the environmental performance of the big compa...
John Healey aced the morning-after media round because his Martin Lewis measures left nothing to challenge him on Maybe it had been one of the greatest acts of political genius after all. The day after the budget is usually the moment when things start to fall apart. When clued-u...
Jensen Huang reported to have had close relationship with tech company executive suspected of passing intel to ChinaUS intelligence agencies believe the Nvidia chief executive, Jensen Huang, has been targeted by a Chinese spy who had done business with him, according to a new rep...
Authorities allege company may have breached Finnish environmental laws by forgoing required impact assessment‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentreFinnish police have launched a criminal investigation into possible breaches of...
Audio file appears to point finger at control centre, but there are questions around signalling and technical issuesAt least 69 people died when a high-speed train from Madrid to Seville hit another train on the same track from behind near Toledo on Wednesday morning.Both trains ...
Guardian columnist, senior economics commentator and host of the new Radical Thinking podcast Aditya Chakrabortty will be online at 2pm GMT (9am EDT) on Friday to answer your questions on the big ideas around economics, society and democracySend your questions to conversations@th...
Party aims to build a ‘significant national publishing operation’ as first edition of the Reformer is distributedUK politics live – latest updatesReform UK has launched what it is calling a newspaper, featuring large pictures of Nigel Farage, which the party hopes will replace ma...
Democrat Annie Andrews neck-and-neck with Republican incumbent, Darline Graham, sister to Lindsey GrahamUS politics live – latest updatesA US Senate race in one of the most Republican states in the country is now a dead heat, according to a new poll showing Annie Andrews, a Democ...
Sax Institute is recruiting for 18 and Up, an intergenerational study of wellbeing and ageing which follows its landmark 45 and Up studyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastResearchers hope to better understand the drivers of major health challenges facing y...
Victorian court to hand down decision on Friday on two appeals regarding Patterson’s triple murder caseGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastErin Patterson is set to find out if she could face a longer prison sentence or a new trial, as Victoria’s highest cou...
A once-confidential letter says child sexual abuser might implicate senior church officials if allowed near ‘the legal arena’ upon his release from jailGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLawyers from a leading law firm for the Marist Brothers have been sub...
Liberal Democrats deputy leader, Daisy Cooper, claims Reform UK leader ‘physically shoved’ colleague in May• UK politics live – latest updatesNigel Farage has been accused of having shoved a female Liberal Democrat MP earlier this year, after he spoke about missing this week’s bu...
Thinktank says chancellor has given himself a mountain to climb after ducking big decisions in low-key speechJohn Healey has paved the way for a “brutal” spending review next year after his budget failed to cover a £28bn shortfall in the public finances needed to avoid a return t...
Watchdog says under-16 ban may affect older teenagers without passport or licence, and that ‘motivated children’ will skirt restrictionsMore than 100,000 British teenagers risk being locked out of social media if they do not have a passport or driving licence when an under-16 ban...
A recording of a closed-door meeting revealed some faculty sought to delay the vote, but others urged immediacyFaculty members at Cornell University are pressing ahead with a no-confidence vote in campus leadership over its handling of a gang-rape scandal involving students at a ...
Acquisition will supercharge DoorDash’s grocery delivery, ‘one of the hardest things to get right online’, CEO saysDoorDash is gobbling up Instacart in a $17bn acquisition that will supercharge its grocery delivery business.DoorDash said the Instacart brand name and app will rema...
With no single European representative negotiating directly with Moscow, some leaders are establishing their own channels – with messy resultsThe Nordic countries rarely fall out in public over foreign policy, least of all over Russia.But a 90-minute phone call this week to Vladi...
Giving evidence at her husband’s rape trial, Laura Brand says couple previously split up over his promiscuityRussell Brand’s wife has told a court that they previously split up over his promiscuity but that he was a “wonderful father” and an “amazingly attentive husband”.Giving e...