Holidaymakers facing worst air traffic delays since 2001

As many as 30 million passengers could be affected this year

Independence day falls flat

It seems fair for Will Smith to want to exorcise the past few years with his album Based on a True Story’. It’s just a shame it’s full of bland, quasi-inspirational songs, writes Tara Joshi

News Child-safe phones instead of school bans, experts urge

Smartphones should be treated like cars, not cigarettes with technology built to mitigate harms rather than being banned outright, academics have argued.

Oh, brother! Incest subplot smacks of a lack of ideas

HBO’s The White Lotus’ pioneered a particular strand of anti-wealth grotesque satire. But, writes Fiona Sturges, was this week’s moment of illicit brotherly love a step too far?

Labour must rethink tax to stop billionaires fleeing UK

A few years ago, we had a celebratory family lunch for A-level results. We splashed out and went to Nobu in London’s Park Lane.

Hundreds feared dead and dozens missing as massive earthquake fh hits eee

More than 140 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck central Myanmar with the tremors powerful enough to collapse buildings hundreds of miles away in Bangkok.

Weetabix wins over the US

A huge surge in sales is reported after a basketball team credits their victory to breakfasting on the wheaty biscuits

Whitehall’s spending wars will see winners and losers

The protected’ departments of health and defence will get a larger share, writes Andrew Grice, while others will struggle

FA Cup presents a historic opportunity for seven clubs

Weekend’s quarter-finals are a once-in-a-generation event

WH Smith off high street as all shops sold j in 76m deal

WH Smith will disappear from the high street after a deal to sell its business to investment firm Modella Capital, owner of the arts and crafts retailer Hobbycraft, for 76m.

Prevent boss quits after Southport killer failures

The head of the government’s counterterror programme Prevent has reportedly stepped down after it was revealed that the Southport killer’s case was closed before the attack.

Declassified documents claim CIA used psychics to find Ark of the Covenant

Declassified CIA documents claim that the mystical Ark of the Covenant was located by a psychic decades ago in the Middle East as part of one of the intelligence agency’s experimental, secret projects in the 1980s.

WINGS OF DESIRE i i--s

An enraptured Sean O’Grady takes a spin in the rarefied air of Bentley Bespoke and finds very little to complain about

What’s the story behind the row about sentencing?

The justice secretary and lord chancellor, Shabana Mahmood, has failed in her attempt to persuade the independent Sentencing Council to review its latest sentencing guidelines.

Afghan woman and trans friend arrested by Taliban

Concerns are growing for Maryam Ravish and Maeve Alcina Pieescu, who were detained before a flight to Iran last week

Farewell WH Smith, dowdy remnant of high streets past

WH Smith has a new owner the high street part, that is anda new name. The dowdy and unloved chain, derided on X for its grotty stores and unlovely mix of product, has been snapped up by Hobbycraft’s owner Modella for 76m in cash.

How the dream job’ turned into a good enough’ career

Five years on from the pandemic, our attitudes toward work have shifted and people are less keen to be defined by what they do. Katie Rosseinsky looks at shifting views on ambition

Ukraine’s choice? Become a US colony or a Russian one

Latest Trump offer to trade Ukraine’s minerals for back pay is a mafia shakedown, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

PM’s communications chief quits after just nine months

Sir Keir Starmer’s communications chief has stepped down from his role after a turbulent nine months in Downing Street and repeated complaints about the party’s media strategy.

‘We can do big, big things’

Centre-half Jan Paul van Hecke tells Miguel Delaney about Brighton’s FA Cup ambitions and taking revenge on Forest

Vance castigates Denmark during Greenland stopover

The US vice-president JD Vance yesterday told American service members that the Danish government has not adequately protected Greenland and insisted the US must do more” to counter what he claimed was Russian and Chinese encroachment” on the strategically important Arctic island, which President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to annex.

Bournemouth beach killer jailed for 39 years minimum

Branded an extremely dangerous’ social misfit, Nasen Saadi murdered Amie Gray and seriously wounded Leanne Miles

Reeves mulls fresh tax raid on savers to balance books

Rachel Reeves is looking at imposing a fresh tax raid on savers by giving HMRC new powers to dock workers’ pay and acquire data about customers from banks.

The chancellor’s approval ratings plunge, poll shows

Rachel Reeves’s spring statement is almost as unpopular as the disastrous mini-Budget that collapsed Liz Truss’s short-lived premiership, a new poll suggests.

"This is the elite of the elite, I can't wait to get stuck in'

Lions recognition as a player escaped Richard Wigglesworth, which is why being part of the coaching team in Australia this summer will be extra special, he tells Harry Latham-Coyle

Albanese calls Australia general election for May

Australians will go to the polls in May for general elections with high costs of living and a shortage of housing likely weighing against the government as prime minister Anthony Albanese s centre-left Labour Party seeks a second three-year term.

Tsunoda lands dream seat the sport's poisoned chalice

When Yuki Tsunoda was asked at the last race in China whether he would be comfortable stepping up to Red Bull in front of his adoring Japanese fans next week as outlandish a proposition it seemed at the time he did not flinch.

Thousands of jobs at risk if British Steel furnaces close

Chinese parent company rejects government green subsidy

Chelsea dismantle City to secure semi-final place

Can we play you every week? At the culmination of four meetings in 12 days between Chelsea and Manchester City, perhaps even the answer from Sonia Bompastor’s side is a “no”.

British and French military chiefs to visit Kyiv, says PM

Britain and France are preparing to send a joint military delegation to Ukraine in an effort to determine how any future ceasefire deal can be supported on the ground, Sir Keir Starmer said after a summit in Paris yesterday.