Retail chief backs campaign against wealthy tax dodgers

The head of Britain's trade union movement and the boss of a leading retailer have joined forces to demand the government takes tougher action to catch wealthy tax dodgers.

'Unparalled growth' Canada's assisted dying laws in spotlight as expansion plan put on pause

When Canada's justice minister announced plans to legalise medically assisted dying nearly a decade ago, she acknowledged the proposed law might prove divisive.

Trump laces showmanship with malice in sinister vision of second term in power

Donald Trump styled himself as a \"proud political dissident\" and promised \"judgment day\" for political opponents in a weekend address that offered a vision of a democracy in imminent peril.

I've been bitten and spat at' Hospital staff face rising abuse from patients

'I \"'ve seen patients take swings at doctors because they're not happy with the time it's taken or the doctor's diagnosis.

Zelenskiy: Ukraine has lost 31,000 soldiers and 2024 will be 'decisive'

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has for the first time given a figure for the number of Ukrainian battlefield casualties in the war with Russia, acknowledging that 31,000 soldiers have been killed and saying 2024 will be \"decisive\" for the outcome of the conflict.

Torture victims 'among hundreds jailed after arriving in small boats'

Hundreds of people, including children and victims of trafficking and torture, have been convicted and jailed for arriving in the UK in small boats to claim asylum, according to a report.

Another big night for Oppenheimer as actors toast striking success

Christopher Nolan's hit biopic Oppenheimer has dominated this year's Screen Actors Guild awards.

'Woke' is not a negative term, says first black female C of E bishop in rebuke to ministers

\"Woke\" should not be used as a negative term, the Church of England's first black female bishop has said, in a stinging rebuke against government ministers and others \"who are threatened\" by the social justice movement.

'We were surrounded by water': the river museum under growing threat of floods

From the reconstructed riverside of The Wind in the Willows to a historic Georgian rowing boat used in the inaugural Oxford-Cambridge race, the exhibits at the River and Rowing Museum celebrate the importance of British rivers.

Gaza deaths set to pass 30,000 as Israel prepares Rafah assault

The death toll in Gaza is set to pass the grim milestone of 30,000 this week, as negotiators try to pin down a ceasefire and hostage release deal and the Israeli government presses ahead with planning an attack on Rafah.

Sunak urged to speak out as Islamophobia row deepens

Tory peer calls on PM to denounce Anderson's remarks on Sadiq Khan

Downsizing Is stamp duty the main barrier to a move?

Many older people in large homes would like to release them to growing families, but the financial hit can be huge, writes Jedidajal

Serco Leisure ordered to stop use of facial recognition

Britain's data watchdog has ordered a Serco subsidiary to stop using facial recognition technology and fingerprint scanning to monitor the attendance of staff at the leisure centres it operates.

Cladding in spotlight after at least 10 killed in Valencia blaze

Emergency services were searching yesterday for up to 15 people reported missing after a fire tore through a 14-storey block of flats in Valencia in eastern Spain, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than a dozen.

'We won't be remote-controlled' How Bundesliga fans beat the big investors

They have hurled tennis balls and chocolate coins on to the pitch and disrupted play with remote-control cars and planes mounted with smoke bombs. In recent months German football fans have thrown almost everything they have into protests aimed at preventing foreign investors from increasing control of their much loved clubs.

Alexei Navalny How Putin's fierce political opponent spent his last days

Each morning at 5 am, Alexei Navalny was rousted with the words \"Wake up!\" as the Russian national anthem played on the prison loudspeakers.

'It feels impossible to live' One Rafah family's effort to find safety amid chaos

The view from the window of the Almodallals' kitchen in Rafah is nothing but rubble.

New hopes of Gaza ceasefire mounts on Israel as pressure and Hamas to reach a deal

An Israeli negotiating team arrived in Paris yesterday for talks about a potential ceasefire in Gaza, in the latest sign of tentative progress towards an agreement that could end the five-month-old war.

Lightbulb moment Moth collector with a plan to barcode every species on Earth

As a child, I used to collect moths and butterflies on the edge of the Great Lakes in Canada.

Rare or not so rare? How Argentina has started to fall out of love with the steak

The billboard in Buenos Aires shows a piglet standing forlornly by a butcher's fridge.

A lasting impression Paris revisits 150 years of painting that let fresh air into art world

To look at Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise is to live in its moment. You are right there in Le Havre docks at t sunrise, in the T purple misty light, as cranes and ships vaguely materialise in the weak light of the sun's low red disc.

Woman who thwarted 1797 French invasion on Welsh coast is honoured

The bravery of a Welsh woman who, legend has it, armed herself with a pitchfork to help thwart an 18th-century attempted invasion of Britain is being celebrated this weekend.

'We milked the hell out of it' Why takeaways and food shops go viral - and what happens next

Ben Newman, also known as the Spudman, spends as much time posing for selfies these days as he does selling jacket potatoes from his van in Tamworth.

Man who piloted fatal people-smuggling boat is jailed for six years

Ibrahima Bah will spend at least six years and three months in custody for manslaughter after at least four people died while he was smuggling dozens of people into the UK on a small boat.

Netflix hit propels David Nicholls' One Day back into the bestseller lists

The TV adaptation of One Day starring Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod shot to No. 1 in the UK Netflix chart when it premiered earlier this month.

'Massive last push' Galloway on the march in Rochdale

Every day at 10 am, George Galloway rallies his troops at a Suzuki showroom just outside Rochdale town centre.

Slapps MPS back curb on spurious legal action

Ministers are to back a crackdown on spurious lawsuits, which are used to intimidate journalists, academics and campaigners, known as strategic litigation against public participation (Slapps).

MPs and parliamentary staff voice concern over rise in threats and abuse

MPs spoke yesterday about the lengths they are taking to keep safe amid heightened tensions over the Israel-Gaza war, with some Labour members who have been vocal on Israel and Palestine saying they feared the possibility of an attack.

Notting Hill Twenty five years on, how hit film turbo-charged area's gentrification

She was only a girl, standing in front of a boy asking him to love her, but would Anna Scott and William Thacker recognise the Notting Hill that exists today, 25 years on from their fictional meet cute?

'Put the kettle on': unexploded bomb brings out the Blitz spirit

Usually, as the weekend approaches, the streets, shops, and pubs around Devonport in Plymouth, the largest naval dockyard in Western Europe, are humming with life.