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Earl Spencer apologises to Piers Morgan over ‘incorrect assumption’
Brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, says ‘accuracy is important’ as he responds to broadcaster’s threat to sue over claims made in memoirEarl Spencer has apologised to Piers Morg…
European drugmakers say they are ‘losing ground’ to US and Chinese rivals
Some of continent’s biggest pharma firms write to national leaders calling for action to safeguard their futuresSome of Europe’s biggest pharmaceutical companies have said the con…
Four people killed after ‘intense’ fire burns through house in Merseyside
One other person in hospital after fire crews respond to incident at home in BootleFour people have died after an overnight fire ripped through a semi-detached house on Merseyside…
Gums, gingkos and a golden wych elm: voting for Victoria’s tree of the year
From Carlton to Castlemaine, the National Trust of Victoria competition aims to raise awareness about treesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA decades-old…
Alex Antic’s rise in SA Liberals has coincided with a collapse in the party’s vote. Is there further to fall?
Election of rightwing senator – once called a ‘vote-losing machine’ – as state president in South Australia takes party further from the centreGet our new political email, free ap…
Nick Clegg could make £30m windfall from datacentre startup Nscale flotation
The former UK deputy prime minister is a board member of the UK-based company and owns 917,000 sharesNick Clegg could make approximately $40m (£30m) from the planned float of Nsca…
Mississippi grand jury decides not to charge anyone in death of Nolan Wells
Jury report says ‘no credible evidence’ points to criminal conduct related to death of Mississippi teen after boat outing with friends on 4 JulyA grand jury made a unanimous decis…
Amateur archaeologist finds 934 Roman silver denarii in German field
The hoard, buried south of Cologne in the second century AD, is the biggest coin treasure ever found in Germany from the time of HadrianAn amateur archaeologist who discovered sev…
Former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood charged with two more offences
Westwood, 68, charged with indecently assaulting a teenage girl in 1991 and sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in 2004Former DJ Tim Westwood has been charged with two additi…
Could you be an ‘autumn spotter’? Public asked to track changing colours of trees in England
Forestry England invites people to help it create a record of when and how the season arrives across the countryThe reds and golds of autumn leaves may be beginning to appear, but…
‘Looksmaxxing’ influencer Clavicular charged with rape and drug offenses
The Massachusetts case is the latest in a series of legal woes for the influencer whose real name is Braden Eric PetersThe online influencer known as Clavicular – who helped fuel …
Up to 169 killed in Yemen as Houthis battle for Red Sea coastal heights
Thousands flee fighting as Iran-aligned group seeks to consolidate territorial gains against Saudi-backed government forcesMiddle East live – latest updatesAs many as 169 people h…
Court quashes 1976 convictions over link to corrupt London police officer
Christopher Poulter and Kevin Biggs, who died in 2004, exonerated of mailbag theft after new evidence emergedTwo men have had theft convictions quashed at the court of appeal half…
British banks told not to invest in planned Israeli settlement before UK trade ban begins
MPs send out letter as Israeli government seeks bids for construction of large E1 settlement in West BankBritish banks and financial institutions are receiving written warnings fr…
Ed Davey promises £17bn income tax cut if Lib Dems are elected
Growth created by rejoining EU single market and customs union would fund change, Davey tells the party’s conferenceUK politics live – latest updatesEd Davey has unveiled a plan f…
High-mileage electric cars are more reliable than petrol ones, study finds
EVs with 90,000 to 120,000 miles on the clock are more likely to pass MOTs than petrol models of the same ageMotorists buying a secondhand car with a lot of miles on the clock are…
Lib Dems quietly commission review into religious inclusion amid case brought by dropped candidate
Richard Newby to chair inquiry commissioned in response to discrimination case brought by David Campanale, who is seeking £790,000 in damagesThe Liberal Democrats have quietly com…
Death of 27-year-old Presley Gerber being investigated as suspected overdose
Son of supermodel Cindy Crawford and entrepreneur Rande Gerber died at a rehabilitation facilityThe death on Sunday of Presley Gerber, the 27-year-old son of supermodel Cindy Craw…
Wasp spider seen in north of England latest ‘climate refugee’ amid global heating
The Argiope bruennichi, spotted in Cheshire for first time, part of worrying trend that could threaten native speciesShe is an unlikely harbinger of the climate emergency: a venom…
Kansas judge reportedly convicts driver in death of teacher whose husband was killed months prior
Ashleigh Boyd died in a car crash months after Adan Manzano, a TV reporter, was killed in Louisiana while preparing to cover the Super BowlA Kansas school teacher’s fatal car wrec…
EU spends three times more on imports from China than bloc exports there
Study shows trade deficit ran at more than €1bn a day in July, days before Xi Jinping’s summit with Donald TrumpBusiness live – latest updatesConsumers and businesses in the EU ar…
OpenAI’s George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain
Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain ‘sovereignty’ over AI techUK politics live – latest updatesDatacentre nimbys are holding Brit…
Piers Morgan says he will sue Earl Spencer over ‘fabricated inaccuracies’
Broadcaster refutes memoir claim that he was behind publication of gym photos of Diana, Princess of WalesPiers Morgan has said he will sue Earl Spencer over “fabricated inaccuraci…
First Thing: News outlets suspend coverage of Trump in escalating media access row
President’s decision to ban three news organisations from White House prompts backlash from major US news outlets. Plus, an incredible new resource to help trace the history of en…
Why the CDC is excluding measles deaths in Pennsylvania even as outbreak appears to be ‘accelerating’
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refuses to count four measles deaths in the state though doctors are ‘seeing new forms’ of diseaseThe US Centers of Disease Control and …
‘The choice was prison or exile’: journalists who fled Russia publish grim portrait of Putin
Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin, who were forced to move abroad in 2021, tell of president capable of ‘limitless cruelty’At 6am on 29 June 2021, the Russian journalist Roman Badan…
Trump set to address UNGA with Middle East and Ukraine on agenda – US politics live
President also due to hold meetings with 11 world leadersSign up for US Breaking News emailsThe major US television news outlets agreed to suspend their video coverage of Donald T…
Democrat says ICE blocked her oversight visit to country’s largest detention camp
Veronica Escobar tells Guardian she was prevented from speaking to detainees at much-criticized Texas facilityFederal immigration officials in Texas prevented US representative Ve…
Tropics will be among last places to benefit if global greenhouse gas emissions cut to net zero
Australian scientists found unequal impact of the climate crisis would not be reversed even if implicit goal of the 2015 Paris agreement is achievedSign up for climate and environ…
EU deadlocked on changes to Russia sanctions ahead of key Ukraine, Greenland talks - Europe live
Without an agreement sanctions on nearly 3,000 entities accused of supporting the war on Ukraine will lapse at the end of the dayin BrusselsThe EU is deadlocked over a plan to rem…