Letter signatories from Steve Coogan to Paloma Faith urge Keir Starmer to stop arms supply if elected PMActors including Steve Coogan, Miriam Margolyes and Juliet Stevenson have joined forces with musicians, writers and directors in calling on Keir Starmer to halt arm sales to Israel if elected prime minister.The singer Paloma Faith, the film-maker...

Historian tells Hay festival audience that Britain needs to ‘liberate itself and have independence day from its own history’The historian David Olusoga has said the UK is the one country left in the British empire as he likened it to being the last oblivious person at a party.Asked at Hay festival on Sunday whether the British empire had ended, the...

Two-thirds of Ingria near Turin are competing for positions including a mother and son in rival camps The last time Igor De Santis ran for mayor in Ingria, a tiny village surrounded by forests and mountains near Turin, he won an easy landslide victory. But he faces a tough challenge in his bid for a fourth mandate, after his mother joined a rival camp.Ingria,...

James Kane and Barbie Agostini pull up safe in Queens park with bundles of $100 bills inside and are told by police they can keep itA New York City couple who were “magnet fishing” in a lake caught more than they had bargained for when they pulled out a safe that had $100,000 cash inside.James Kane and Barbie Agostini tossed a line with a strong magnet...

MP for Hackney North & Stoke Newington says she has never been offered Lords seat and would not accept if offeredDiane Abbott has said that she intends to “run and win” as Labour’s candidate in the constituency she has represented for 37 years, amid reports that Labour has offered peerages to MPs to stand down.The veteran Labour MP said she had...

Exclusive: Leaked internal documents show Pravfond has spent millions of euros to finance propaganda and legal campaignsLeaked internal documents have exposed the activities of a Russian state-backed legal defence foundation that European intelligence agencies and analysts say is in fact a Kremlin influence operation active in 48 countries across Europe...