Atkins Ciwem environmental photographer of the year 2016 - the winners in...
The overall awards winners have been announced in the 2016 Atkins Ciwem environmental photographer of the year competition, an annual international showcase for thought-provoking photography and video...
View ArticleKiefer Sutherland, country singer: 'This is what I want to do with my life'
A sometime rancher, lasso expert and record label owner, the star of 24 has taken on his most creatively risky project – but it’s not so different from actingNever mind that Down in a Hole, the debut...
View ArticleMuseum marks Somme centenary with tribute to 'inglorious wounded'
Science Museum counts human and medical cost of injuries sustained during conflicts past and presentRelated: Somme trench recreated in Welsh castle to salute battle's centenaryScraps of ribbons,...
View ArticleI am a rock: how it feels to be a Brexit voter in Gibraltar
Most of the 823 Gibraltarians who voted to leave the European Union have gone to ground. But not John BromfieldJohn Bromfield is the rarest of birds. He is one of the 823 Gibraltarians who voted last...
View ArticleCapybara captured: rodent's brief taste of freedom comes to an end
The capture brought an end to the saga of the missing ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ capybaras, who bolted after their first day in captivity at a small zoo in TorontoToronto’s second runaway-turned-folk-hero is...
View ArticleBBC cuts top talent pay after Jeremy Clarkson departure
Corporation makes more than £2m reduction in amount it spends on talent earning more than £500,000The BBC has cut the amount of money it spends on talent earning more than £500,000 by more than £2m...
View ArticleGerman town hails Syrian refugee 'hero' for turning in €150,000
Minden police praise 25-year-old man for reporting cash he found hidden in a self-assembly cupboardPolice in Minden, Germany, say a Syrian man who arrived last year as a refugee is their “hero of the...
View ArticleHow a ‘grotty rundown pub’ became the UK’s best restaurant
The Sportsman in Seasalter, Kent, has topped the 2016 National Restaurant awards and its chef/patron is ‘gobsmacked’. So what’s on the menu?The metropolitan elite are in for a bit of a shock when they...
View ArticleUS border control could start asking for your social media accounts
US Customs and Border Protection proposal would see Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts requested on landing and visa formsThe US government is proposing making social media accounts part...
View ArticleTexas train crash: one person injured in head-on collision
Two BNSF trains crashed in north-west Texas on Tuesday morningNearby residents evacuated to avoid possible grass fire caused by smokeAt least one person was injured when two freight trains collided...
View ArticleZimbabwe politician Morgan Tsvangirai says he has colon cancer
President Mugabe’s chief rival discloses medical condition and says health of national leaders should not be subject of speculationZimbabwe’s main opposition leader and President Robert Mugabe’s chief...
View ArticleUN climate chief urges Britain to remain a global warming leader
Christiana Figueres tells business leaders that Brexit vote is not an obstacle to continued cooperation between Britain and the EU on global warmingBritain must continue to be a world leader when it...
View ArticleCanadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is hero in new Marvel comic
‘We acknowledge that this is basically Trudeau fan fiction,’ says Chip Zdarsky, Canadian artist and writer of Marvel’s Civil War II: Choosing Sides #5Sporting red boxing gloves and a sleeveless top...
View ArticleZika virus vaccine for animals brings hope for human protection
Trial version in US giving successful immunisation to mice could help fight disease, but complications warned for those who have contracted dengue feverAn experimental vaccine that completely protects...
View ArticleIran under pressure to abolish death penalty for drug trafficking
Several European countries cut off financial contributions to republic’s counter-narcotics campaignIran is under pressure to end its use of death penalty against drug traffickers after facing a serious...
View ArticleTrump echoes Brexit: 'It's time for Americans to take back their future' –...
House Republicans release Benghazi report, faulting military responseBarack Obama warns against Brexit ‘hysteria’New poll puts Hillary Clinton up eight points over TrumpVideo: Clinton on Benghazi...
View ArticleAbortion advocates 'on a high' with a long road ahead after supreme court win
After Monday’s victory, providers face the complex task of re-opening clinics, which may take years, and preparing for future battles with Texas legislatureAbortion providers and advocates gathered...
View ArticleGermany to further curb activities of spy agency in wake of NSA scandal
Angela Merkel’s cabinet signs off on reforms to keep country’s foreign intelligence agency on tighter leashGermany has approved new measures to rein in the activities of its foreign intelligence agency...
View ArticleWhat happened to the Podemos fairytale? | Miguel-Anxo Murado
The stage was set for Spain’s anti-austerity party to make a major breakthrough on Sunday. And yet its leaders misjudged the public and it suffered a severe setbackIt was supposed to be a historic...
View ArticleTim Farron – history demands you step into the breach and ‘speak for England’...
The Liberal Democrats may be the one political force united enough to provide a liberal narrative of the Brexit protest. We need a clear voice to build a new nationIt was 2 September 1939, a turning...
View ArticleA great European painting has just been unveiled in Britain. It feels like...
For Brexiters, divorce from Europe’s cultural glories is just good riddance to foreign muck. Now we’re isolated, feasting on the art of Georges de la Tour feels like a subversive act against...
View ArticleLabour’s left waited decades for Corbyn. They won’t give up without a fight |...
The party is in crisis with 80% of MPs having no confidence in the leader. But his supporters know the opportunity to control its direction may not come again‘Tis but a scratch! Just a flesh wound!...
View ArticleCorbyn's going nowhere but not in the way he means
It was meant to be a meeting of the shadow cabinet but turned into what looked more like a secretive group therapy sessionFollow all today’s political developments on our live blogOne way of showing...
View ArticleWe get the England football team we deserve | David Conn
Decades of mismanagement and greed have caused huge damage to the game. No wonder the Euro 2016 national squad was so poorCan further calamity befall the English? There we were on Monday night, willing...
View ArticleEoin Morgan: England cricket’s Iceland moment inspired radical change
• England one-day captain suggests football team could follow same path• ‘For us, it was going with a new method and a new group of players’Eoin Morgan, England’s limited-overs captain, was in an...
View ArticleBet365 faces legal action over delay in paying winning punter £54,000
• Backer was restricted to £1 bets following successes• Case highlights frustration with bookies on paymentsBet365, one of the internet’s biggest bookmakers, is facing legal action from a customer over...
View ArticleBritish wildcard Tara Moore registers first win at grand-slam event
• Belies world ranking of 227 to beat Alison van Uytvanck 6-3, 6-2• Johanna Konta is held up by rain, but British men’s No2 Aljaz Bedene bows outJust call it the Marcus Willis effect. Tara Moore, a...
View ArticleHow did Iceland become Europe’s giant-slayers?
After a crazy, unbeaten run in Euro 2016, Iceland will now take on France in the quarter-finals. So what’s the secret of their unlikely success?A tongue-in-cheek but tragically believable image did the...
View ArticleAndy Murray up and running with defeat of Liam Broady at Wimbledon
• Scot takes an hour and 42 minutes to win 6-2, 6-3, 6-4• ‘It’s not that easy playing someone you know so well’The odds of three British players who are not Andy Murray playing on Centre Court at...
View Article'The egos rang true' … magicians' verdict on Now You See Me 2
The pacy thriller follows a team of slick illusionists. But could their stunts – like stopping rain – actually work? And would professional magicians see through their trickery? Four experts conjure a...
View ArticleEmpty gesture? Renzo Piano's €600m cultural Acropolis for austerity Athens
It was launched to great fanfare. But now the 20-hectare temple to culture stands vacant, its shelves built for 2 million books empty, its gates locked. Can this wildly ambitious civic gesture...
View ArticleDevon schoolboy admits hacking sites but denies airline bomb hoaxes
Boy, 16, tells court he targeted websites around world, such as that of SeaWorld Orlando, to promote animal rights A schoolboy from Devon launched cyber-attacks on websites across the globe as part of...
View ArticleNumber of UK children living in poverty jumps by 200,000 in a year
Official data shows first increase, when including housing costs, since 2011-12, with 3.9 million living in relative povertyThe number of children living in poverty in the UK has jumped by 200,000 in a...
View ArticleAnjem Choudary denies breaking terrorism laws
Preacher was charged, along with Mohammed Rahman, over speeches that were published on YouTubeAnjem Choudary has denied breaking terrorism laws at a British court.Choudary, 49, was arrested and charged...
View ArticleWoman feared Max Clifford would rape or kill her, court hears
Celebrity publicist, on trial at Southwark crown court, denies indecently assaulting woman in his Mayfair office in 1980sA woman has told a court she thought Max Clifford was going to rape or kill her...
View ArticleSex worker robbed and battered to death in Leeds, court hears
Lewis Pierre, 24, attacked Daria Pionko, 21, in UK’s first managed red light district in Holbeck, jury toldA man carried out a “sustained and forceful” attack on a sex worker in Leeds before spending...
View ArticleHacking suspect could kill himself if extradited to US, court told
Suffolk student Lauri Love at high risk of suicide if transferred from UK to face lengthy trial, says autism expertA student with Asperger syndrome would be at “high risk of suicide” if extradited to...
View ArticleRoy Hodgson faces media but says: ‘I don’t really know what I am doing here’
• Hodgson reluctantly discusses shock Euro 2016 exit against Iceland • ‘I’m no longer the England manager, my time has gone,’ he saysRoy Hodgson reluctantly faced the music on Tuesday after England’s...
View ArticleHouse Benghazi report faults military response, not Clinton, for deaths
Panel chair Trey Gowdy concludes $7m investigation with 800-page report that accuses US of being slow to respond after 2012 attack was already under wayHouse Republicans investigating the 2012...
View ArticleTeenager knew police were chasing him before fatal crash, inquest finds
Jury rejects police version of events in case of Henry Hicks, who was killed when his moped crashed during chase in LondonA teenager who died when his moped crashed was trying to get away from police...
View ArticleSeveral injured in explosions at Turkey's largest airport
Multiple injuries confirmed by Turkish officials after two explosions and gunfire reported at Ataturk in IstanbulTurkey’s largest airport, Istanbul Ataturk, was hit by twin explosions on Tuesday...
View ArticleUK faith leaders unite in condemning post-referendum rise in xenophobic abuse
UN human rights chief urges UK authorities to prosecute those responsible after police record 57% rise in hate crime following Brexit voteLeaders of Britain’s main faith communities have united in...
View ArticleParliament voted to hold the EU referendum – it can vote to ignore it |...
You Brits invented parliamentary democracy. Take it from an American – it should still hold sway. But start again with a new government. No fiddle faddle“Ok, people, that was not a bad run-through for...
View ArticleWhat do Germans think about Brexit? They pity us
Germans used to see the UK as a pragmatic, cautious nation. The leave vote has blown away the foundations of what people believe the British character to be On Sunday night, I was watching Hungary play...
View ArticleBrexit is a disaster, but we can build on the ruins | George Monbiot
This is a crisis of astonishing proportions, but also an opportunity for the changes the left has long soughtLet’s sack the electorate and appoint a new one: this is the demand made by MPs, lawyers and...
View ArticleI've got the Brexit blues. Can anything make me feel better?
With the nightmare fallout from the EU referendum showing no sign of lessening, could comedians, philosophers or even the Samaritans offer a small glimmer of hope?Euch. Can’t face getting up. Or...
View ArticleBrexit fallout: Six practical ways to help fix this mess
As the remain camp tries to pick up the pieces after the EU referendum result, what can ordinary people do to make things better? Here’s a handful of ideas to get startedAs the implications of the...
View ArticleIs Nigel Farage right to say MEPs have not done 'proper jobs'?
The Ukip leader won boos in the Brussels chamber by insulting his parliamentary colleagues. Did he have a point?Nigel Farage returned to the European parliament on Tuesday and delivered a withering...
View ArticleNo Brexit general election if Boris Johnson wins Tory leadership
Johnson team source says leave campaigner does not believe he needs new mandate to negotiate exit from EUBoris Johnson would not call a general election immediately if he won the Conservative party...
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn suffers heavy loss in Labour MPs confidence vote
Opposition leader remains defiant, saying he will not quit despite 172 MPs saying they have no confidence in himFollow all today’s political developments on our live blogThe Labour party is on track...
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