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A family who arrived at their rented holiday house to find bloodstained furniture and a room full of sex toys were told the problem was “minor” by the booking platform Vrbo.

Paul Norris [not his real name] and his wife had booked the five-bedroom, £300-a-night house in Northern Ireland for …

• Ukraine implemented emergency power restrictions

  on Tuesday morning as the energy minister, German Galushchenko, said a Russian attack on gas infrastucture was under way.

• A Ukrainian drone attack damaged an industrial facility in Russia’s southern region of Saratov

  , its governor said early on Tuesday. Ukraine’s Lt Col …

Britain must respect Donald Trump’s “strong and clear mandate for change”, Peter Mandelson has said, but Keir Starmer’s government could “always make our views known privately and directly” to the US president.

Lord Mandelson, Britain’s ambassador to Washington, said that in dealing with Trump, the government must “understand what drives …

Far-right populists are significantly more likely to spread fake news on social media than politicians from mainstream or far-left parties,

according to a study

“Radical right populists are using misinformation as a tool …

On a misty evening in August 1990, two men hiking on the moors surrounding Calvine, a pretty hamlet in Perth and Kinross, claimed to have seen a giant diamond-shaped aircraft flying above them. It apparently had no clear means of propulsion and left no smoke plume; it was silent and …

New Zealand’s National-led coalition government is losing support among voters, new polling shows, amid frustrations over the economy and deepening concern the country is heading in the wrong direction.

Meanwhile, the parliamentary left bloc has taken a narrow lead for the third poll in a row, enough that the opposition …

Australia’s major pay TV service Foxtel has moved to assure subscribers that key American sports content will remain available on its platforms following the latest blow in the country’s sports

streaming brawl

Disney announced on Tuesday that ESPN’s slate of Australian and international sports programmes – including …

Shoppers inspired by health food trends on social media helped lift retail sales in January, easing pressure on

high-street stores

Barclays said credit and debit card spending grew 1.9% year on year in January – the highest upsurge since March 2024.

The …

Leading artificial intelligence assistants create distortions, factual inaccuracies and misleading content in response to questions about news and current affairs, research has found.

More than half of the AI-generated answers provided by ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity were judged to have “significant issues”, according to the study by the BBC.