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Court tells ministers to give Johnson messages to inquiry

Ministers ordered to hand Johnson messages to inquiry

Impossible Coincidence: How Tom Cruise's New Blockbuster Uncannily Echoes Real Life

Given that Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One is the seventh instalment in the action movie franchise, fans may be forgiven for feeling a creeping sense of familiarity at theatres this weekend

Djokovic Eases Through Doing Just Enough At The Right Times

What is it with Novak Djokovic? At times you get the feeling the greatest player in the history of men's tennis could walk out to face a vaping, white-shorted Phillip Schofield, or a Just Stop Oil pensioner on a wildcard, and this most gushing of arenas, a Centre Court that loves nothing more than to fawn over its champions, would still shout "Go on Phillip" or "Let's Go Oil", just to break the day up a little

Nuclear Arms XI Has Not Warned Putin, Moscow Says

The Kremlin has denied a report that the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, personally warned his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, against using nuclear weapons in Ukraine

Most Railway Ticket Offices In England To Close By 2026

Rail firms have confirmed plans for the mass closure of England's ticket offices to "modernise" the railway, ramping up the battle with unions and infuriating disability and passenger groups

Leicester City fined £880,000 for price fixing with JD Sports

Leicester City football club has been fined £880,000 by the competition watchdog after admitting restricting online sales of its football kit with JD Sports

Kremlin unravels web of companies woven into state by ex-Wagner chief

As Wagner mercenaries captured a Russian military base and began their armed march on Moscow, members of Russia's federal security services stormed one of Yevgeny Prigozhin's offices in St Petersburg

Murdoch lawyers deny Harry's claim of secret deal with royal family

Prince Harry is pushing \"Alice in Wonderland stuff\" by claiming the royal family struck a secret deal with Rupert Murdoch's media company over phone hacking, according to the newspaper group

SAS must be named in Afghanistan inquiry, families' lawyer says

An admission by the defence secretary that \"UK special forces\" were present in Afghanistan, without explicitly naming the SAS, risks discrediting a public inquiry into allegations of unlawful killings, according to a lawyer representing victims' families

Almost human Summit showcases AI robots designed to improve normal life

Grace is a nursing assistant, Ai-Da is a artist, purple-haired rock singer and Nadine is on hand for companionship and conversation

Water firms will push for big bill rises, warns Ofwat

Water companies will be seeking big increases in bills as they face huge infrastructure investment demands, according to the chief executive of the water regulator, Ofwat

Austerity caused serious deterioration in key areas of NHS care, research finds

The quality of care the NHS provides has got worse in many key areas, and patients' long delays to access treatment are set to become even more common, new research has found

Husband of Zaghari-Ratcliffe attacks UK's hostage strategy

Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of the British-Iranian Nazanin ZaghariRatcliffe, has criticised the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) for rejecting a call by MPs to overhaul the way it goes about trying to secure the release of British nationals overseas

Strikes undermine children's Covid recovery, says Keegan

The education secretary, Gillian Keegan, accused striking teachers yesterday of undermining children's recovery from the Covid pandemic, saying she did \"pretty well\" at getting extra funding for schools from the Treasury

Wild Wednesday Can I catch all 87 matches? I'll give it my best shot

Forget Manic Monday and Super Sunday: welcome to Wild Wednesday

Protesters from Just Stop Oil held after jigsaws stop play at Wimbledon

Katie Boulter said she was shocked when a Just Stop Oil protester disrupted her first-round match at Wimbledon by throwing jigsaw pieces and orange confetti on to court

Legal aid rate rise 'not enough to deal with Rwanda asylum cases'

The Law Society has warned that a proposed 15% increase in legal aid rates will not be enough to ensure sufficient numbers of immigration lawyers to deal with the government's controversial scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

Ditching £11.6bn climate VOW vow 'could undermine trust in UK'

Rishi Sunak risks damaging trust in the UK among developing countries and reducing the country's standing in negotiations because of a failure to meet climate spending pledges, civil servants have told ministers

'I dare you': Adele takes aim at projectile-throwing fans

Adele has spoken out against a recent spate of people throwing objects at musicians on stage, telling an audience she would \"kill\" them for it

Scottish minister at forefront of protests at king's coronation event in Edinburgh

A ceremony in Edinburgh marking King Charles III's coronation has been targeted by politically significant republican protests led by a Scottish government minister

'It is just like the intifada' Palestinians clear up after raid on Jenin

On the second floor of the Shibli family home in the Jenin refugee camp, three small boys knelt on the tile floor, picking up hundreds of spent cartridges left behind by Israeli snipers who had used their kitchen as a firing position

Fossil fuel lobbyists also work for climate groups

More than 1,500 lobbyists in the US are working on behalf of fossil fuel companies while at the same time representing hundreds of liberal-run cities, universities, technology companies and environmental groups that say they are tackling the climate crisis, the Guardian can reveal

UK Ready To Drop £11.6bn Pledge For Climate Fund

The government is drawing up plans to drop the UK’s flagship £11.6bn climate and nature funding pledge, the Guardian can reveal, as the prime minster is accused of betraying populations vulnerable to global heating

Toyota Claims Battery Breakthrough To Unlock Future For Electric Cars

Toyota says it has made a technological breakthrough that will allow it to halve the weight, size and cost of batteries, in what could herald a big advance for electric vehicles

Mortgages We've been here before - and house prices crashed each time

All things considered, Britain's housing market has held up pretty well so far in the face of a relentless rise in borrowing costs that has seen five-year fixed-rate mortgages climb above 6%

Australian rules player who died aged 28 had suffered brain injuries

Australian researchers have for the first time diagnosed a female athlete with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive degenerative brain disease caused by repeated head injuries, in a finding that will have major implications for women's sport

'It looks like Mars' First Russia took town's water. Now nuclear fears grow

Anna Supranova stood in front of what was once a vast humanmade sea

Nine people hurt in car-ramming and stabbing attack in Tel Aviv

At least nine people have been injured, three of them seriously, in a car-ramming and stabbing attack in Tel Aviv a day after Israel launched a large-scale military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin

In Kirkwall "The state of the ferries is what people are most angry about"

The skyline in Kirkwall's harbour is dominated by the squat silhouette of a Norwegian ship, a floating school for sailors, with Norway's flag fluttering from its mast

Pay dispute Brace for concerted action in autumn, Sunak told

Teachers could launch the biggest strikes in a decade from September as part of a \"united front\" by all four education unions in England, the incoming head of the biggest union has warned