China warns Britain is ‘sending wrong signals’ as it lashes out at trade minister’s visit to Taiwan Beijing has lashed out at UK for sending trade minister Greg Hands to Taiwan Mr Hands is latest foreign official to defy Beijing’s warnings over Taiwan visits China claims Taiwan as its own […]

Rishi Sunak tells family of British-Egyptian activist he will campaign for his release on Cop 27 trip to Egypt where he has been repeatedly jailed over last 16 years In a letter to family of Alaa Abd El-Fattah, the PM said he was ‘totally committed’ But his family fear could […]

Mykolaiv: When would-be soldiers are rejected from Ukraine’s foreign legion, most turn around and go home. But that’s not what Queensland landscaper Trevor Kjeldal did when told he couldn’t join the Ukrainian military unit. Trevor Kjeldal (left) and James Durose (right) in Ukraine. “Stuff this, we’re going to go further […]

By Farrah Tomazin Nevada: On a rural stretch of Nevada, about an hour away from the neon-soaked casinos of the Las Vegas Strip, a battle over American democracy is playing out in real time. Here, in the deeply conservative town of Pahrump, Donald Trump-fuelled conspiracy theories about the security of […]

Talking points As little as .6 to 1.25 standard drinks a day could raise women’s risk of breast cancer, but only one in five women is aware of the link. Even “very light consumption levels” of alcohol can raise breast cancer risk by 23 per cent. Nearly all women asked […]

British husband, 80, ‘with Alzheimer’s’ is arrested for ‘stabbing his wife, 69, to death with a kitchen knife in frenzied attack’ in Costa del Sol A British woman called police on Friday night saying she had been stabbed multiple times by her husband  Police rushed to flat in resort town […]

Thousands of Victorian students and their families may have had personal data including medical information stolen after a technology company that has contracts with the Victorian government was hacked. PNORS Technology Group works with six different state departments including Education and Training. Technology company PNORS, which works with state government […]

Home Office contractors tried to sell drugs to migrants at Manston: Security staff are disciplined after asylum seekers accuse them of trying to push cannabis at crisis-hit compound Asylum seekers complained that security staff attempted to sell them cannabis Some guards also raised concerns that their colleagues were smoking the […]

Driver is run over three times by her own car after she gets out but leaves the engine running The 45-year-old woman had stepped out of her car in northeastern Switzerland The car was left on a slight slope and then began rolling backwards towards her She tried to stop […]

Bride and groom, 68 and 74, become latest wedding couple to have their big day cancelled as Home Office block-books hotels to house asylum seekers Chris Wise, 74, and Carole Haragan, 68, forced to change their wedding venue Hotel in Ashford, Kent being used for asylum seekers after Home Office […]