Wes Streeting says doctors’ strikes ‘a gift to Nigel Farage’ | Politics News

Wes Streeting has stepped up his war of words with junior doctors by telling Labour MPs that strikes would be “a gift to Nigel Farage”. In a hard-hitting speech to the Parliamentary... Read more »

7 French start-ups that tapped fresh funding in 2025

In honour of Bastille Day, here’s a list of some of the exciting French start-ups lighting up the tech world. Today (14 July), France is celebrating Bastille Day to commemorate the 1789... Read more »

Legacy Act halted investigations into 202 Troubles-related killings of British soldiers | Northern Ireland

Investigations into the deaths of more than 200 British soldiers were halted by the Conservatives’ Northern Ireland Legacy Act, Labour will announce, as a justification for its intention to repeal the legislation.... Read more »

The other millennium dome: how Wales’s National Botanic Garden came back from the brink | Wales

Amid the gentle hills of Carmarthenshire’s Tywi valley, the domed glasshouse of the National Botanic Garden of Wales sparkles from miles away. Designed by Sir Norman Foster, when the garden opened in... Read more »

The lives of Ukrainian teenagers at war

Illia, 17, talks with his friend Nastia on the rooftop of a damaged 16-story building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on May 27, 2025. (George Ivanchenko / The Kyiv Independent) Russia’s war has struck... Read more »

‘She’s one of us!’ The dizzying rise of Hannah Laing, Scottish dental nurse turned superstar doof-doof DJ | Dance music

In the centre of a dancefloor in a Dundee park, a group of athleisure-clad teens are dancing to a Crazy Frog remix with a middle-aged couple wearing head-to-toe smiley face print. They’re... Read more »

Woman guilty of facilitating rape of daughter by her brother

 A woman has been convicted of facilitating the rape of her daughter by her brother — the child’s uncle — over 20 years ago. The woman was convicted by a Central Criminal Court... Read more »

Musk’s giant Tesla factory casts shadow on lives in a quiet corner of Germany | Tesla

When Elon Musk advised Germans to vote for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in elections last year, Manu Hoyer – who lives in the small town where the billionaire had built... Read more »

Treasury minister says ‘headline’ rate of income tax won’t go up, in hint thresholds might be frozen in budget – UK politics live | Politics

Treasury minister Darren Jones says ‘headline’ rate of income tax won’t go up, in hint thresholds might be frozen in budget Good morning. This is the last full week the Commons is... Read more »

Chinese spies may have acted in Russia’s interests

A group of Chinese nationals suspected of espionage has been exposed in Kyiv. Reports indicate that their object of interest was Ukraine’s “Neptune” missile. Ukraine believes that the information they collected could... Read more »