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John Healey poised to raise taxes on banks in budget
Exclusive: Chancellor to target sector in his first budget to help offset damage caused by Iran war on public financesJohn Healey is poised to tax Britain’s banks in his 28 October budget to help offset the damage inflicted on the public…
Repressive, secretive and highly militarised: Eritrea, the east African country facing UK visa ban threat
Country has not had an election in 33 years and has withdrawn cooperation with UK on migrant returnsEritrea, the east African country embroiled in a row with the UK over its refusal to accept the return of rejected asylum seekers and cri…
Top health civil servant urged to play no role in clampdown on ADHD clinics
Four MPs raise conflict of interest concerns over Samantha Jones’s past links to a big provider of ADHD assessmentsA senior civil servant should play no part in ministers’ crackdown on private attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and…
Wes Streeting in US for Hegseth meeting as Ukraine tensions escalate – as it happened
This live blog is now closed, you can read more of our UK political coverage hereLabour says it’s told all of its local councils who share power with the Green Party to review their agreements after the Greens passed a “Zionism is Racism…
Labour councils told to end agreements with Greens who do not condemn ‘Zionism is racism’ policy
Party chair calls on Labour groups to end local deals if Green councillors do not reject motion attacked as ‘antisemitic’UK politics live – latest updatesLabour councils who share power with the Greens have been told to terminate agreeme…
Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson sentenced to 15 years for child sexual offences
Donaldson was found guilty in June of 18 counts of sexual abuse including one rape between 1985 and 2008Jeffrey Donaldson has been sentenced to 15 years for sexual offences against two women who were children when he abused them, complet…
John Healey vows to give ‘breathing space’ to consumers and businesses in first budget
Speaking at IMF meeting, chancellor says he will stick to fiscal rules while recognising business and living costsUK politics live – latest updatesBusiness live – latest updatesJohn Healey has promised to use his first budget in a fortni…
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John Healey poised to raise taxes on banks in budget
Exclusive: Chancellor to target sector in his first budget to help offset damage caused by Iran war on public financesJohn Healey is poised to tax Britain’s banks in his 28 October budget to help offset the damage inflicted on the public…
Thames Water asks for £2.4bn more to avoid going bust this year or early 2027
Water company tells creditors it will not survive long enough to agree refinancing deal without more moneyThames Water has asked its creditors for another £2.4bn as the embattled water company comes close to running out of cash.The UK’s …
US lawmakers unveil bill to hold Wall Street’s ‘Epstein-connected’ bosses to account
Move comes as Senator Elizabeth Warren condemns Barclays response to questions over ex-boss’s ties to sex offenderUS lawmakers have unveiled a new bill to hold Wall Street’s “Epstein-connected” bosses to account for helping finance the l…
Cost of balancing Great Britain’s power grid reaches nearly £50m a day
Grid operator paying large sums to switch off windfarms in areas of excess electricity generation while turning on gas plants elsewhereThe cost of balancing Great Britain’s power grid has soared to near-record highs of almost £50m a day …
Lisa Nandy ‘minded to intervene’ in Sky’s £1.6bn purchase of ITV
Culture secretary’s move paves way for deeper scrutiny of deal that would create UK’s biggest commercial broadcasterThe culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has said she is “minded to intervene” in Sky’s £1.6bn purchase of ITV, in a move that …
Tech market sell-off deepens amid fears over US inflation and AI debt
Chip makers and tech investors such as Samsung and SoftBank plunge as potential interest rate hikes spook marketsBusiness news – live updatesLarry Elliott: the global economy is muddling through. But a storm is comingAn accelerating sell…
Online ads weaponised to deliver ‘zero-click’ spyware, researchers say
Discover-Tech’s Controlium software lets clients mass-profile internet users then covertly hack targets, say researchers at University of TorontoAn Israeli advertising agency has been serving millions of online adverts that allow “zero-c…
Scientific News
Latest discoveries and innovations
Is your boss watching you? The rise of AI surveillance at work - video
Workers have always been monitored by their bosses, first through output targets, and then via computer software labelled ‘bossware’. But AI is transforming the capabilities of these systems, processing huge volumes of data to provide mi…
Could AI ‘change the stakes’ in the development of bioweapons?
Experts say the technology could help terrorists and nation states with production but that significant hurdles remainIn his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, MI5, warned…
Stop making sense: focus on sounds to help learn a language, study suggests
Research shows that the best linguists process unfamiliar foreign speech sounds more like non-speech soundsIf you want to get really good at French, Arabic or Hungarian, don’t start with rote learning vocabulary and grammar, focus on how…
Cyril Hilsum obituary
Government physicist whose radar research paved the way for flat-panel TV and computer screens based on liquid crystalsCyril Hilsum’s research into stable liquid crystals and the devices in which they could be used paved the way for the …
Trill seekers: can scientists use AI and tutors to help birds remember lost songs?
When populations fall, fledglings can struggle to learn the right notes to attract mates. But research on how birds communicate offers hope for species’ survivalListening to birdsong is one of life’s great joys, but when researchers hear…
Roman fort found in Wales could prove myth of emperor’s camp is real
Exclusive: Finds suggest account in medieval folklore of a camp near Frenni Fawr hill was rooted in realityMagnus Maximus, the Roman emperor who ruled Britain in the fourth century, led his troops against the Picts and Scots, but a theor…
As a scientist, here's what worries me about the suspected Russian plague victim | Devi Sridhar
Russia’s silence over the death of a lab worker underlines that pandemic preparedness amounts to nothing if information on threats is withheldIn pandemic preparedness work, scientists like to focus on the technical challenges: identifyin…
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The Amol Rajan Connection review – another wrong move after lasting one night in The Celebrity Traitors?
The broadcaster has bullet-proof confidence as he departs the BBC. But his first YouTube show with Gareth Southgate is nowhere near as radical as you’d expect – and he sounds like yet another tech guruWhatever you think of Amol Rajan, he…
Frieze review – you’ll see more avant garde wonders in the Bake Off tent
Regents Park, LondonThis year’s art fair is a jumble sale of mediocre paintings for the super-rich, while its Masters sibling hawks dinosaur skulls and sleazy 19th-century nudes. Welcome to the art market as its most grotesqueNaked peopl…
‘Stranger than stranger-than-fiction’: how Lance Oppenheim made the year’s two buzziest films
Primetime and You Can See Everything are both clammy, audacious awards contenders that challenge our sense of reality. Ahead of the release of his drama starring Robert Pattinson as a TV vigilante, the 30-year-old director talks crime, p…
‘A guy held a knife to my throat and said: play something normal!’ Richard Thompson on crazy crowds, his beloved beret and Sandy Denny’s driving skills
As he releases new album Hippies, Thugs and Heroes, the 77-year-old British folk legend answers your questions about Billy Connolly, Californian fish and chips and whether he nearly joined the EaglesBilly Connolly recalled being in a roo…
From a VR gay sauna to the gothic pile that inspired Cluedo – Fierce festival storms back
Venues across BirminghamAs Britain’s longest-running live art festival returns, get ready for late-night artist dinners, a show in a swimming pool and Faye Driscoll’s incredible rotating disintegrationThe phrase “two things can be true” …
Your full attention: Jesse Eisenberg’s 10 best film performances – ranked!
As his new movie The Debut closes the London film festival, we count down the best of the actor’s shy, sly and sometimes hairy outingsA doppelganger role can be a trap for an actor: either the two roles are not sufficiently distinct, or …
‘Don’t do this!’ Why Paul McCartney cares about looking shorter than John Lennon in Sam Mendes’ Beatles films
You’re Paul McCartney. So how come you’re still getting het up at a fictional version of you being marginally smaller than a fictional version of John Lennon?There has been a lot of discourse and conjecture surrounding Sam Mendes’s forth…
Sport News
Latest results, matches, and sporting events
Alex Scott quits Disney+ role as Women’s Champions League presenter
Scott walking away to focus on other projectsDisney+ was criticised after opening round this seasonAlex Scott, the former Football Focus host, has left her role as a presenter of the Women’s Champions League coverage on Disney+.It is und…
Lyon v Crystal Palace, Torreense v Sunderland, and more: Europa League – live
⚽ Europa League updates from the 5.45pm BST kick-offs⚽ Live scoreboard | Read Football Daily | Email MichaelLet’s unpack those line-ups:A crucial injury to forward Loïs Openda, on loan from Juventus, during the defeat to Lens at the week…
Apologetic Infantino ‘not fit’ to lead Fifa, claim European FA heads after meeting
Infantino failed to provide answers to questionsEuropean leaders expect someone will stand against himEuropean football leaders are increasingly confident they will find a candidate to stand against Gianni Infantino in next year’s Fifa p…
FA spending on Wembley hospitality and free tickets for FA Council rises by 25%
Expenditure rises to £564,000 in 2025-26 seasonCost of hosting FA Council meetings also almost doublesThe Football Association spent 25% more on Wembley hospitality and freebies for FA Council members last season, the Guardian can reveal…
Champions League review: PSG’s benchmark, Viking uprising and an Italian-German dilemma
The competition returned after the international break as the reigning champions put on a devastating display and Italy looked for its next saviourFamous faces in the crowd for English teams’ home matches on Wednesday. While Prince Willi…
Manchester City are suddenly box-office in age of charge-rage and mega defiance | Barney Ronay
This is by far the most interesting this club have ever been and they faced PSG, a kind of twin entity in all this as oil state glove puppetsAnother day, another note of unreality; another vivid and brilliant spectacle that feels as thou…
Enzo Maresca insists Manchester City are ‘close’ to PSG despite home defeat
Luis Enrique admits ‘luck was on our side’ in 4-2 winMaresca denies players were affected by guilty verdictsEnzo Maresca felt Manchester City proved they were close to the level of Paris Saint-Germain after losing out to them in a Champi…
Nations League roundup: Haaland limps off in Norway’s loss to Portugal
Portugal victory seals place in quarter-finalsGreece hold Germany to goalless drawTitle-holders Portugal maintained their 100% record in the Nations League with a 2-1 home win over Norway on Sunday to seal a place in the March quarter-f…
Nations League: Ronaldo-less Portugal prosper while Klopp gets first win as Germany coach
Portugal pull away to 4-2 win in DenmarkJürgen Klopp’s Germany beat Serbia 2-0Portugal maintained their perfect start to Nations League Group A4 as Jorge Jesus’s squad showed little signs of missing Cristiano Ronaldo with a 4-2 victory o…
Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’
Says social media claims are ‘nonsense’ and ‘idiocy’Coach sees ‘no reason to pay attention to these people’Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of formin…
NFL star Tyreek Hill’s estranged wife awarded $500,000 damages in battery trial
Receiver liable for two counts, not liable on eight othersLakeeta Vaccaro alleged abuse by NFL receiverA Miami jury on Tuesday found Tyreek Hill liable for two counts of battery but not liable for the eight remaining claims made by Lakee…
‘Chip on his shoulder’: Brian Flores lawyers condemn racial stereotypes in NFL coaching report
Recruiting report prepared for Raiders’ 2024 searchLawyers say assessment contains racial stereotypesFlores sued NFL over discriminatory hiring in 2022A recently unsealed recruiting report on Brian Flores contains multiple examples of “r…
Former NFL star Mark Sanchez reaches settlement over stabbing altercation
Former QB fought with 69-year-old last OctoberFox Sports parted ways with Sanchez over incidentSanchez was charged over Indianapolis confrontation
Former NFL quarterback and Fox Sports analyst Mark Sanchez has reached an agreement in …
International News
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LGBTQ+ people go into hiding in Senegal as hundreds are arrested
At least 320 people detained for ‘acts against nature’ after law criminalising homosexuality toughened, HRW reportsMass arrests, forced HIV testing and barriers to legal representation are part of an escalating crackdown against LGBTQ+ p…
Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza denies using AI to write prize-winning story
Article in Atlantic claims The Blue Fighter was artificially generated, days after it won Caine prize for African writersThe Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza has denied using AI to write a prize-winning short story after an article…
Guinea-Bissau denies it has approved controversial vaccine trial in newborns
Health minister says government ‘did not authorize’ Danish-led hepatitis B trial in babies backed by RFK JrGuinea-Bissau has not approved the controversial hepatitis B study in newborns that would be funded by the US government and priva…
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchersA controversial research trial that will withhold hepatitis B vaccines from some African newborns was given approval to move forward…
EU must curb energy prices to prevent people turning to populists, commissioner warns – as it happened
This live blog is now closed, you can read more of our European news coverage hereJust as the leaders sit down at the big table in Brussels, Romania has said that seven people are still missing after a fire on a vessel in Romanian territ…
Russia and Ukraine trade strikes as Trump ‘energy ceasefire’ collapses
Moscow sends swarms of drones to attack infrastructure in central Ukraine as Zelenskyy says Kyiv will restart strikes on Russian oil refineriesEurope live – latest updatesThe White House’s unilateral effort to negotiate an energy ceasefi…
Catholics pray around the world for the pope's health – video
Worshippers are attending mass and praying for Pope Leo XIV's recovery after doctors removed cancerous tissue on 13 October. The 71-year-old pontiff was diagnosed with lung cancer before undergoing an operation. The Vatican has reported …
Bring a bottle: Viennese dog owners told to rinse pets’ urine from trees
Official guidance says ammonia in animal urine should be watered down to stop it corroding barkA neighbourhood in Vienna has introduced guidelines for dog walking, including the use of bottled tap water to rinse away urine and protect vu…
Burnham v Swinney: will the UK PM overshadow the SNP’s conference?
Prime minister presents new kind of challenge for SNP, and his Scottish visit will loom large over its big eventThis year, even Andy Burnham is invited to the Scottish National party conference. But by the time John Swinney stands up to …
Poland’s ascent from communist state to top 20 economy reverses the brain drain
In the final part of our series on the country, Poles tell how wages have soared – along with the cost of livingWill military spending help or hinder Poland’s growth story?Poland’s push for EU energy resilience amid Russian aggressionAbo…
How Gaza changed Europe, exposing cracks that grow bigger by the week | Shada Islam
Solidarity with Palestine’s suffering is punished but MEPs allow a witch-hunt of European MuslimsFor three painful years, Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, in retaliation for the Hamas terror attacks on 7 October 2023, has killed more than…
Bring a bottle: Viennese dog owners told to rinse pets’ urine from trees
Official guidance says ammonia in animal urine should be watered down to stop it corroding barkA neighbourhood in Vienna has introduced guidelines for dog walking, including the use of bottled tap water to rinse away urine and protect vu…
Same-sex couple sue over Slovakia’s refusal to register marriage
Case of couple who wed legally in Austria exposes clash between EU court ruling and national restrictionsA same-sex couple are suing authorities in Slovakia for refusing to register their Austrian marriage, testing whether a landmark EU …
‘A joyful place’: a new museum coaxes Austrians to embrace The Sound of Music
Sixty years after the film’s release, Salzburg is embracing a Hollywood classic it once kept at arm’s lengthLet’s start at the very beginning – famously, a very good place to start.Just two decades after the second world war, a Hollywood…
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