The Guardian Articles

Patrick Mahomes

French police are investigating the deaths of a retired British couple whose bodies were found in their renovated rural home in Aveyron in south-west France.

Andrew Searle, a retired fraud investigator, and his wife Dawn were discovered dead on Thursday at their home in the village of Les Pesquiès, south …

Despite once calling cryptocurrency “

a scam

Now an army of digital imposters is trying to cash in on the president’s name …

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was fitted with an electronic tag on Friday after losing his appeal against his conviction for

corruption and influence peddling

He will be required to remain at his Paris home between 8pm and 8am, but has been given a special dispensation to …

Donald Trump

postponed his threat

When it comes to the US’s neighbours, Trump’s Treasury secretary, the hedge …

An Israeli soldier has been found guilty of severe assaults of Palestinian detainees from Gaza, the first conviction for abuse in a system where dozens of people have died in custody and whistleblowers say torture and violence is rife.

Israel Hajabi, 25, repeatedly attacked bound and blindfolded detainees with his …

What makes a politician an effective public speaker? We may not immediately know the answer, but we know it when we (don’t) see it. Monotone pitch, strangulated vowels or swivel-eyed certainty – these are the people telling us that difficult days lie ahead, or that only their party can deliver …

Retired history teachers everywhere must be quietly lamenting that Mussolini: Son of the Century wasn’t around when they were building their Twentieth Century Europe modules. Joe Wright’s Italian-language TV adaptation of

Antonio Scurati’s novel

The claim that Lucy Letby definitely poisoned babies with insulin has “no scientific justification whatsoever” and there is a “very strong level of reasonable doubt” about the convictions, according to the authors of a 100-page study on the case.

Prof Geoff Chase, one of the world’s foremost experts on the …

Tax campaigners have joined retailers in urging the UK government to close a tax loophole to prevent a “massive influx” of cheap goods from companies such as Shein and Temu flooding the market.

It comes after the

EU said it was joining the US in phasing out …