Some 22 British passengers and crew aboard a cruise ship hit by hantavirus could fly back to the UK this weekend after plans were made to dock the vessel in Tenerife. Officials from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and Foreign Office will greet the MV Hondius ship when it…
Fury as stage play The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher opens in Liverpool just a week after gunman tries to shoot Donald Trump
A Liverpool theatre has caused consternation after staging an adaptation of author Dame Hilary Mantel’s The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, just one week after a gunman was accused of trying to shoot US President Donald Trump. The short story, published a year after the former Conservative Prime Minister’s death in…
Man who ran paedophile dark web forums from his London flat and had 87,000 pictures of children on his computers is jailed for six years
By JOE ROSSITER, REPORTER Published: 11:19 BST, 9 May 2026 | Updated: 11:30 BST, 9 May 2026 A moderator of child sexual abuse sites on the dark web has been jailed for six years. Matthew Slate, 36, was a ‘global moderator’ on Olympus, a pro-paedophile forum, and held prominent positions…
NASA’s Artemis 2 commander and astrophotographer team up to capture breathtaking, never-before-seen shots of the moon’s far side
Just weeks before the first Artemis 2 launch window, astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy had a last-minute idea: What if he could get the Artemis 2 astronauts to shoot the moon the same way he shoots the moon? So McCarthy slid into the DMs (direct messages) of Artemis 2 commander and NASA…
Pair ‘who went to Stamford Hill to film antisemitic social media videos’ are charged with religiously aggravated harassment
By SABRINA PENTY, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 10:51 BST, 9 May 2026 | Updated: 11:02 BST, 9 May 2026 Two men have been charged with religiously aggravated harassment after they were accused of travelling to Stamford Hill to film videos harassing Jews. Adam Bedoui, 20, and Abdelkader Amir Bousloub, 21,…
Gordon Brown handed top job by Keir Starmer as PM desperately tries to reset his premiership while chorus of Labour MPs demanding he set out resignation timetable surges
Keir Starmer is this morning desperately clinging on to power as the number of Labour MPs demanding he quit reaches nearly three dozen. The Prime Minister surprised onlookers this morning as Gordon Brown was spotted arriving at Downing Street, amid efforts by Sir Keir to reset his floundering administration. No. 10…
Car ploughs into pedestrians on busy street with several rushed to hospital including one fighting for life as police launch hunt for driver
By ELIZABETH HAIGH, SENIOR NEWS REPORTER Published: 09:37 BST, 9 May 2026 | Updated: 09:55 BST, 9 May 2026 A car has ploughed into pedestrians on a busy street and several people have been rushed to hospital as police launch an urgent search for the driver. One person has been…
Tenerife residents in fury that hantavirus cruise ship will disembark there before more than 20 British passengers and crew fly back to UK
Residents of Tenerife took to the streets to protest the pending arrival of a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship on Friday as Spanish authorities prepared to receive more than 140 passengers and crew members. Health officials have said they will perform careful evacuations once the MV Hondius docks on the island and…
A vast dam across the Bering Strait could stop the AMOC collapsing
The Bering Strait separates Alaska and Russia Ocean Color/OB.DAAC/OBPG/NASA It would be an engineering project on a truly epic scale, but we may one day need to consider building a dam between Alaska and eastern Russia. The audacious proposal would be designed to stave off the worst consequences of the…
Farrer by-election live: Voters cast their final ballots as Pauline Hanson’s One Nation hopes to win first ever federal lower house seat
By NICHOLAS COMINO, POLITICAL REPORTER, AUSTRALIA and AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated: 08:57 BST, 9 May 2026 The Farrer by-election is looming as a major political humiliation for the Coalition, with One Nation in serious contention to win its first federal lower house seat. Voters in the sprawling south-west NSW electorate…