Comedy Midlife crisis that delivers a lot of laughs

Twentysomethings, there is nothing here for you! So says Chris Cantrill at the start of Easily Swayed, a show highly conscious of the Yorkshireman recently having turned 40.

Theatre Deft portrait of sisterly love over decades

Three Sisters Productions is a theatre company founded by real siblings. You can tell in this delicately observed and deftly written drama about a pair of sisters whose relationship is traced over two decades.

Divers find five bodies in search of Sicily yacht

Divers scouring the wreck of the luxury yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily on Monday morning have found the bodies of five of the six missing people who were onboard.

Fresh calls for Reeves to lift child benefit cap

Rachel Reeves is coming under renewed pressure to end the two-child benefit cap in October's budget, after the Guardian revealed the chancellor was preparing to keep it in place.

UK police threaten extraditions to tackle sextortion criminals

Rising toll of victims blackmailed over sexual images

Pope audition offers glimpse of future while honouring the past

England's stand-in captain will stick to familiar template but has chance to stake claim

'My friends fighting are - it is hard to focus on football'

Shakhtar Donetsk playmaker Georgiy Sudakov on the 'fear and grief' of Russia's invasion and why he is learning English

Waitrose to open 100 stores in five years amid trading boost

Waitrose is planning to open 100 convenience stores over the next five years as part of a £1bn-plus investment in new outlets and shop refurbishments.

Tesla to get lowest EU tariff on its Chinese made EVs

Tesla will face a 9% levy on its Chinese-made cars exported to the EU, the European Commission has said, as it issued an update on its sweeping investigation into Beijing's \"unfair\" subsidies on electric vehicles.

'Now it's ours' Descendants of slaves lay claim to former plantation HQ in Brazil

Two hundred years ago, the São José do Pinheiro coffee plantation farm was one of the most opulent estates in Brazil.

Health officials urge solidarity over African mpox outbreak

African health officials appealed to the international community yesterday not to impose travel bans on countries dealing with an outbreak of mpox, but instead to support the rollout of testing and vaccinations.

'All I can do is get justice' Father pays tribute to his dead daughter

'We raised her with a lot of hardship,\" the father of the trainee doctor murdered during a rest break at a Kolkata hospital has said.

Maria Branyas Morera, the world's oldest person, dies at age of 117

The world's oldest person, Maria Branyas Morera, who was born in the US in 1907 and lived through two pandemics and two world wars, has died in Spain at the age of 117, her family said yesterday.

Fighting fierce as Ukraine pushes deeper into Russia

Fierce fighting continued inside Russia yesterday as Ukrainian troops tried to seize more territory and used kamikaze drones to blow up a Russian pontoon bridge across a strategic river crossing.

Bodies of six Israeli civilians taken hostage in October recovered in Gaza, says IDF

Israel has recovered the bodies of six hostages who were seized during the attack by Hamas on 7 October last year and taken to Gaza, its military announced yesterday.

Veterans join archaeologists to reveal fate of fallen at Battle of Waterloo

From chopped limbs to ground-down remains, the fate of those killed in the bloody Battle of Waterloo has long been the subject of macabre speculation.

The turbine defender Easing the resistance to clean energy tech

The prospect of pylons, wind turbines and solar farms springing up across the countryside has upset a number of T UK communities.

President urges voters to protect US democracy by electing Harris as successor

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took to the stage at the Democratic national convention on Monday night as the president urged the nation to elect his would-be successor to protect American democracy.

Swiftonomics Seismic impact of European leg of the Eras tour

Taylor Swift's final night at Wembley has wrapped up the European leg of her Eras tour, already the highest grossing tour ever.

'Out of this world' Guide to modernist Manchester sets out to restore architects' vision and optimism

As a pre-war building it must have blown people's minds,\" says Jack Hale, admiring the magnificence of A glassy the Express Building in Manchester.

Disorder Factory worker jailed for role in riot at hotel

A man who shouted abuse at police guarding a hotel housing asylum seekers and celebrated as missiles were thrown at officers has been jailed for three years and four months, as more people were sentenced yesterday for their part in the riots.

'It'll mean a lot' King visits Southport to meet those affected by attack

King Charles was greeted by hundreds of people in Southport yesterday as he visited Merseyside to meet those affected by last month's knife attack.

Rocket testing 'will return' after explosion at Shetland spaceport

A rocket company has vowed to return to regular operations \"as soon as possible\" after an explosion during a test at the UK's new spaceport in Shetland.

Disney drops waiver defence over woman's death at resort

Disney has dropped a controversial legal claim that the terms and conditions a widower agreed when signing up for the Disney+ streaming service protect it from a wrongful death lawsuit he brought over his wife's death after she ate at a resort restaurant.

Half a million children 'will face holiday hunger' if £1bn local crisis fund is ditched

More than half a million children will go hungry during school holidays from the October half-term if the government fails to renew a £1bn local welfare crisis fund due to end in six weeks' time, charities have warned.

Scotland's peak rail fares return after flat rate trial fails to add passengers

Scottish ministers will reintroduce peak rail fares across the country after an experiment with flat rate fares failed to significantly increase passenger numbers.

Travellers to EU will have to pay £6 visa-waiver charge from May

UK citizens travelling to the European Union next summer will have to pay a €7 (£6) visa-waiver charge after the EU revealed its timeline for the introduction of new border checks and entry requirements for some visitors.

'My end of life dog': Delon's plan to have pet killed and buried with him is vetoed by family

The late French actor Alain Delon's wish that his pet dog be put down and buried with him has been rejected by his children after an outcry from animal rights campaigners.

Six presumed dead after sinking of superyacht

Six people are now presumed dead after the superyacht they were onboard sank in a sudden, violent storm off the coast of Sicily.

Eating red meat raises risk of type 2 diabetes

Eating processed or red meat increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, with two slices of ham a day raising the danger by 15%, the largest study of its kind suggests.