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England’s most senior education official has assured MPs that suppliers on not-for-profit contracts will not in the future be able to make money secretly after “serious failings” were exposed by the Guardian.

Susan Acland-Hood, the Department for Education’s permanent secretary, told the cross-party public accounts committee (PAC) that a “very …

The great advantage of hostile takeover battles for public companies is that you get a clean punch-up. The records of both parties – bidder and target – are put in the spotlight. Every claim is tested in open argument over many weeks. At the end of the process, shareholders make …

The South African government has launched a mission to bring potentially hundreds of people in an illegal mine to the surface who last year had supplies of food, water and medicine blocked by police in an attempt to force them out.

The government agreed to the attempt on Friday after …

A 12-year-old girl overdosed on her mother’s prescription tablets after making an allegation of sexual assault to police and “feeling like she wasn’t believed”, an inquest has heard.

Semina Halliwell died on 12 June 2021, three days after taking her mother’s tablets at their home in Southport, Merseyside.

Her mother, …

A male zebra has died after a female rhino unintentionally punctured his stomach, a zoo in Essex has said.

The rhino, called Astrid, had been sparring with her son Tayo when she tried to move Ziggy

out of the way last Friday

. Colchester zoo said Ziggy died …

Drag artists are under unprecedented pressure as they are “more visible, but also more debated” than ever before, performers have said, as they paid tribute to The Vivienne.

The international drag community came together in London for RuPaul’s DragCon UK over the weekend, its first large gathering since the Welsh …

Meta’s move to scrap factcheckers is not about “complexity”, as it says (

Report, 8 January

), but to support Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s agenda.

It is widely agreed that effective, fast and unbiased factchecking is essential for the proper functioning of social media platforms. Similarly, principles of …

A 55-year-old man has been arrested and charged with stalking and sending threatening messages to basketball star Caitlin Clark.

Michael Lewis, of Denton, Texas, was arrested at a hotel in Indianapolis, where Clark plays for the Indiana Fever. He is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday and could face …

My friend John Rumsby, a museum curator, who has died from cancer aged 75, brought an appreciation of social history to the community where he lived and worked. Collections manager at Kirklees Museums, West Yorkshire, before his retirement on health grounds in 2007, he continued to publish meticulously researched articles …

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