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Britain’s most senior police officer has blamed Home Office foot-dragging for a failure to change the rules to allow forces to sack officers who fail vetting procedures.

The Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, said civil servants had known about the problem for more than 20 years, leaving the force …

During

historic floods last May that left more than 180 dead

When classes resumed …

Coca-Cola has said it may have to increase its use of plastic in the US, if Donald Trump’s tariffs raise the cost of aluminium cans.

The drinks company’s warning follows Trump’s

introduction of 25% tariffs

From the myth of Icarus to countless modern narratives, we see a recurring pattern: how humanity is brought back down to earth, often by our own hubris. Down in the chopped-and-screwed streets of Houston, Ime Udoka is rewriting his own myth, defying the Icarus curse. After

a …

My grandmother, Hazel Jenkins, who has died aged 93, was a socialist with a deep commitment to the values of fairness and equality. Her belief in standing up for what was right inspired me to enter local politics.

From 2008 to 2018 she raised tens of thousands pounds for charities …

Thames Water is being investigated by the water regulator for England and Wales, Ofwat, after it delayed environmental improvement schemes.

The investigation comes after

the Guardian revealed

The British economy is on course to expand by 1.5% this year after the budget gave a boost to public spending but could be blown off course if Donald Trump goes ahead with threatened tariffs, a leading economic thinktank has warned.

In a boost to Rachel Reeves after a bruising …

After five years, Apple is back with a full revamp of the earbuds that put its Beats headphones brand on the map for athletes and sports people: the Powerbeats Pro 2.

Designed to hook on to the ear and stay put without wires, the original Powerbeats Pro were

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Few words can fully capture the first few weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency. Dizzying? Unrelenting? Disorienting?

Trump’s team has described its strategy as “flooding the zone” – in essence, overwhelming the opposition, the media and the public with a torrent of executive orders, mass dismissals of federal staff …

Marriages in China plunged 20% to a record low in 2024 as young people resisted government efforts to convince them to settle down and have more babies.

Marriages in China dropped from 7.7m in 2023 to 6.1m last year, data from China’s civil affairs ministry showed. The figure was less …