The Guardian Articles

A “dangerous” teenager who shot a woman in the head through the front door of her home in east London has been handed a life sentence.

Joshua Alexander, 17, was handed a minimum jail term of 29 years after

being found guilty of murdering Lianne Gordon

Anna Lo, who has died aged 74 of cancer, was Northern Ireland’s first minority ethnic elected representative. She represented South Belfast for the Alliance party in the Northern Ireland Assembly from 2007 to 2016.

There she established all-party groups on subjects ranging from ethnic minorities to human trafficking. Having …

Neal Lawson’s opinion piece (

After 44 years as a Labour member, I spent 18 months facing expulsion. This is what the party got wrong, 21 November

A retired police dog has rescued a vulnerable missing person in East Sussex on his first walk since having major surgery.

The German shepherd, named Bear, found the man in dense undergrowth while being walked by his owner Julia Pope, a former police officer.

Pope said the dog, who was …

As a magistrate of more than 25 years, I am exasperated by talk of a black hole in the nation’s finances when a solution is at hand (

‘We had no alternative’: Reeves defends her budget to the CBI, 25 November

With a surface hot enough to melt lead and with clouds of sulphuric acid above it, it is a planet often called Earth’s “evil twin” – similar in size, yet worlds apart.

Some scientists have long believed it was once much more hospitable, home to cooler temperatures and oceans of …

France’s centre-right prime minister, Michel Barnier,

has told parliament

The decision means France’s government will probably face a vote of confidence from opposition parties, …

A range of large employers, such as Starling Bank, have called thousands of workers back to their desks in a

tightening of rules on remote working

The Belgian state has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for the forced removal of five mixed-race children from their mothers in colonial Congo.

In a long-awaited ruling issued on Monday, Belgium’s court of appeal said that five women, born in the Belgian Congo and now in their 70s, …

Lucy Letby’s parents wrote to hospital bosses expressing their “intolerable anguish” after police began investigating their daughter, and asking for an urgent meeting with senior managers, a public inquiry has heard.

Two months after officers from Cheshire constabulary were brought into the hospital to investigate an increase in the number of …