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Justin Trudeau

A nurse is in a critical condition after she was stabbed in a hospital A&E in a suspected attempted murder, police said.

The nurse was on duty at the Royal Oldham hospital, in Greater Manchester, when she was attacked with a sharp instrument at about 11.30pm on Saturday night.

Greater …

The former secretary general of the Council of Europe (CoE), Terry Davis, who has died aged 86, was a Birmingham Labour MP for 28 years, and was popular in his constituency because he understood the problems of the area, where he had been born and where he had himself worked …

It seems unlikely Rachel Reeves had “cut back public spending plans” on her list of new year resolutions – but by the end of a rocky week, it was clear she has the red pen ready, if bond markets fail to settle down.

At one level, this makes perfect logical …

Ismael Arroyo, 15, dreamed of becoming a great footballer, like Brazil’s Neymar. His brother, Josué, 14, preferred the French star Kylian Mbappé. For Steven Medina, 11, playing like either Neymar or Mbappé would have been just fine. Nehemías Saúl Arboleda, 14, had a different dream: he aspired to become a …

Britons are so adept at tactical voting that any sort of progressive alliance among parties on the left is no longer needed, an internal Liberal Democrat report into the party’s general election campaign has concluded.

The report, led by the former Lib Dem leader Tim Farron, said that while the …

The concept of a pun was stretched almost to breaking point a few days ago when a newspaper, on a report that the prime minister had been ushered to the front of a long line of people waiting for a toboggan ride, put the headline: “

Sir Queue …

A police officer who was killed after being struck by a lorry while helping at the scene of another crash in North Yorkshire was “the very best of us”, local leaders have said.

PC Rosie Prior and a motorist, Ryan Welford, were standing on the verge of the A19 when …

Campaigners met government officials months ago to urge them to implement recommendations from the

independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA)

One campaigner who was present at the meeting with Home Office officials …

How should we as a society interact with one another, debate, come to decisions? What impels politicians to focus and act on one thing and not another?

The Athenians had the Agora, where (male, slave-owning) citizens gathered to debate and decide the issues of the day. In the early 20th …