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People awaiting hospital treatment to get three weeks’ notice under NHS England plans
Move inspired by customer service provided by online retailers such as John Lewis and AmazonPeople waiting for hospital treatment will get three weeks’ notice of their next appoin…
‘I can only describe it as a war zone’: the rescuers navigating Venezuela’s post-quake hellscape
Thousands of volunteers are joined by overseas teams in the hope of finding more survivors in the rubbleWhen twin earthquakes tore through Venezuela’s northern coast last week, Is…
Flowers, food and a fairytale castle: Taylor Swift wedding comes to New York
Singer and fiance Travis Kelce have been coy but festivities appear to be getting under way at Madison Square GardenIn her hit song Welcome to New York, Taylor Swift sings: “Like …
First Thing: Iran to show defiance in six-day funeral for supreme leader
Ceremony for Ali Khamenei intended to be epic display of national power. Plus, the expected wedding of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce pays dividend to good causesGood morning. Fina…
Zohran Mamdani to deliver speech to mark US’s 250th birthday in New York
New York mayor’s remarks at city hall to come just hours before Trump is set to deliver address at Mount Rushmore Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, is expected to delive…
Salvaged steel and a slice of countryside: Caro sculptures on show in Oxfordshire fields
Visitors can get free peek at works by one of UK’s most significant 20th-century artists and one of his successorsSwifts screech overhead, hares lope along the grassy paths and bu…
Keir Starmer ally Hollie Ridley to step down as Labour general secretary
Exclusive: As well as citing personal reasons, Ridley says she is making way for a successor ‘to work alongside new leader’Hollie Ridley, Labour’s general secretary, is to step do…
Woman suspected in Monaco parcel bombing reportedly seen in Germany
Suspect is said to be a woman who tried to pass off as a man during attack apparently targeting Ukrainian-born oligarchThe main suspect in a bomb attack in Monaco this week is…
Weather tracker: Heatwave breaks June temperature records across Europe
UK provisional high of 37.7C shatters previous record by huge margin, while Germany experiences all-time high of 41.7CLast week’s heatwave across western Europe broke national rec…
Andy Burnham says Labour manifesto has room for ‘movement on tax’ – UK politics live
The Labour MP hinted that he’s open to flexibility for some taxes that could aid high street businessesGood morning and welcome to our live coverage of UK politics.Andy Burnham, t…
US heatwave threatens 250th anniversary events and World Cup
Weekend’s high temperatures and humidity ‘virtually impossible’ without climate crisis, researchers sayThe scorching heat blanketing much of the US this week would have been “virt…
Details of MCG assault against Lidia Thorpe revealed after court lifts suppression order
Ebony Bell convicted and handed community work order following assault on senator and second ‘gratuitous act of violence’ while on bailFollow our Australia news live blog for late…
Burnham’s funding gap: what state are UK finances in for the PM-in-waiting?
Given pressures on the public purse, the Makerfield MP may have to look at autumn tax rises to fund his ‘new direction’An economy rattled by a global energy shock, jittery bond ma…
Friday briefing: The US at 250: who gets to tell the story?
In today’s newsletter: As official celebrations spotlight a narrow cast of white heroes, communities across the US are reclaiming the histories that Freedom 250 leaves outGood mo…
Jacinta Allan admits criminals infiltrated Big Build but rejects calls for royal commission
Premier apologised over organised crime in some of Victoria’s largest construction projects, in op-ed that claimed a royal commission would not solve the issueFollow our Australia…
‘Ridiculous’ for US to maintain current Nato support, Trump warns ahead of alliance summit
President says Washington’s relationship with Nato is ‘not reciprocal’ and ‘they were not there for us’ in Iran warDonald Trump has said it is “ridiculous” for the US to continue …
Spyware used against MEP investigating Pegasus abuses, report finds
Researchers say Stelios Kouloglou’s device was compromised after he joined European parliamentary committeeNSO Group’s hacking software was repeatedly used against a member of the…
‘Bigger than football’: Norway fans’ Viking row makes waves at World Cup
From Times Square to the Norwegian parliament and even in fighter jet cockpits, the choreographed row is everywhereThe fans have done it, in their thousands, in the stadiums. The …
Trump hijacks America at 250 celebrations – podcast
This weekend marks 250 years since the signing of the declaration of independence, but Donald Trump is making the celebration all about himself. As the anniversary approaches, Jon…
Portrait of Angela Merkel unveiled at museum in Berlin
Painting by Jérémie Queyras shows former German chancellor in trademark jacket – at a time of nostalgia for her ruleOver months they met secretly in a studio in the government qua…
Dolphins increasingly rely on trawlers for food in overfished Adriatic, say scientists
In one area 76% of fishing boats were followed, with baby dolphins learning the technique from their parentsBottlenose dolphins in the Adriatic are increasingly following trawlers…
Christian Brothers kept nine child abusers as members due to Gospel imperative to help ‘the needy’, court documents reveal
Exclusive: Documents also show the Catholic order sought financial support from the Holy See months before it declared it lacked money to pay survivorsFollow our Australia news li…
Tributes for Melbourne boy allegedly left to die from stab wounds, as teen charged with murder
Darweish Mohamed, 15, died after being found with alleged stab wounds outside a Craigieburn hospital on Wednesday nightFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet ou…
Former AFL player Nicky Winmar found guilty of assaulting woman in northern Victoria
Judge finds woman was truthful after the former St Kilda star accused her of lying about attackFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, f…
China says man who flew plane into Beijing skyscraper had mental health problems
Official statement offers the most detailed official account yet of the highly unusual and fatal incident in BeijingChinese authorities said the man who flew a small plane into Be…
NSW records first suspected case of deadly H5 bird flu as virus reaches Australia’s east coast
Migratory giant petrel discovered near Hawks Nest north of Newcastle infected with H5. Testing under way to determine if it’s highly pathogenic H5N1 strainFollow our Australia new…
More than 100 passengers on US cruise ship sick from suspected norovirus
Princess Cruises vessel is docked in San Francisco for disinfecting in third outbreak for company this yearMore than 100 passengers and about 23 crew members on a Princess Cruises…
‘Give him any award, and he’ll come running’: Narendra Modi racks up honours on overseas trips
Indian prime minister has a habit of collecting awards on his travels, some as their first and only recipientAs Narendra Modi touched down in Seychelles over the weekend, the arch…
FBI orders 260 staffers to Georgia to assist with 2020 election investigation
Memo calls for ‘surge’ of analysts after agents in January seized hundreds of boxes containing Fulton county ballotsThe FBI has asked its field offices across the country to dedic…
Moira Deeming launches lawsuit against Victorian Liberal president before party meets to decide her future
Scandal has engulfed state opposition as MP resists calls to apologise to Matthew Guy over assault allegationFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking…