A UK food system “tinderbox” could be pushed into crisis by a single major shock such as extreme weather, a cyber-attack or war, according to a new peer-reviewed analysis that maps how disruptions could cascade into shortages, price spikes and…
People in Tumbler Ridge say Tuesday morning began like any other winter day. The haze sat low in the valley. The cold felt routine. Then the town’s sense of safety collapsed. A shooter opened fire at a local school, killing…
Two men have been jailed for life after a plan for a mass firearms attack targeting Greater Manchester’s Jewish community was stopped by an undercover operative. Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, were sentenced at Preston Crown Court on…
Fifty-three people are dead or missing after a migrant boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, the UN migration agency said. Only two survivors were rescued, both Nigerian women, after a search and rescue operation by Libyan authorities. The…
Progressive Christians in the Church of England have suffered a major setback after the General Synod voted to halt work on LGBTQ+ equality, following years of bitter internal debate. Bishops told Synod that a workable compromise between conservative and liberal…
The US economy added 130,000 jobs in January. Economists had expected 70,000. The unemployment rate reached 4.3%, a touch higher than in the fall. January beat December’s weak gain of 50,000. However, it trailed the 143,000 jobs added in January…
Marine Le Pen’s lawyers told a Paris appeals court that she never ran a fake-jobs scheme. “At no moment did Marine Le Pen imagine that she broke the rules,” said counsel Sandra Chirac Kollarik. Le Pen denied any plan to…
A private investigator convicted of obtaining secret information unlawfully told the high court that the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday remained his “best customers” for nearly two years after his 2005 conviction. Steve Whittamore said his work for…
At the post-PMQs briefing on 11 February 2026 in London, No 10 declined to say whether Matthew Doyle could lose his peerage. The row concerns allegations that he failed to disclose he had campaigned for a council candidate later charged…
Three senior judges have ruled that the UK government’s decision to ban the direct action group Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws was unlawful and disproportionate. The ruling hands the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, a sharp legal and political defeat. Civil…