Iran’s late President, Ebrahim Raisi, is being buried in his home city of Mashhad, four days after he was killed in a helicopter crash. The 63-year-old hard-line cleric will be laid to rest in the holy shrine of Imam Reza, a revered figure in Shia Islam. TV pictures showed large crowds gathered in one of...
Singer Cassie has posted her first statement since video emerged showing rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs attacking her. The star, whose full name is Casandra Ventura, said domestic violence “broke me down to someone never thought would become”. The video of the attack in 2016 was released last week by CNN. Ms Ventura had alleged her...
A man has been jailed for life with a minimum 32-year term for a series of slasher attacks on strangers, ending with the random murder of a woman in south London. Mohamed Nur, 34, was armed with a makeshift blade when he cut the throat of Johanita Kossiwa Dogbey, 31, in daylight in Brixton on...
The Post Office dropped a wide-ranging review into the convictions of sub-postmasters over fears it would make “front page news”. Paula Vennells, the former Post Office boss, had suggested in 2013 that convictions going back 10 years could be scrutinised. But in an email revealed at the inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal on Thursday,...
“So are you looking forward to all the football?” Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was met with awkward silence and mocking remarks when he asked whether people were looking forward to the Euro 2024 football tournament – for which Wales have not qualified – on the first full day of general election campaigning. During a visit...
11 minutes ago Henry Zeffman,Chief political correspondent Reuters “Labour MPs are happy. We’re not. That tells a story,” one minister fumed in my general direction as he reeled off a list of legislation he had been involved in, now headed for the shredder. That’s just one illustration of the explosive mood in Westminster on Wednesday...
A man has been charged with assisting Russian intelligence after being arrested by UK counter-terror police. Howard Michael Phillips, 64, from Harlow in Essex, was arrested in central London and is due at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday afternoon. Investigators have also searched addresses in Hertfordshire and Essex. There is not believed to be any...
On a campaign trip to Wales, the PM asks voters if they will watch the Euro football tournament, even though Wales have not qualified. England and Scotland are off to Germany for games that will take place either side of the election but his question to voters was met with an initial silence, before it...
Parliament will aim to pass an important bill ahead of the general election to ensure victims of the infected blood scandal are compensated as soon as possible, the government says. Commons leader Penny Mordaunt said there was a “clear desire” to get it done. MPs will consider House of Lords amendments to the Victims and...
A grandmother of three plans to “play as long as possible” after recently becoming the oldest ever international cricketer. Wicketkeeper Sally Barton made her debut in Gibraltar’s second T20 international against Estonia, external at the age of 66 and 334 days. “The words ‘too old’ just aren’t in my vocabulary,” Barton told BBC Sport. “I...