Keir Starmer aims to turn the spotlight onto Sunak’s career before politics in the lead up to the first TV debate about the general electionRishi Sunak must face questions about the fortune he earned at a hedge fund which engineered a deal at the heart of the financial crash, Labour has said, as it prepares to launch its first major attack on the prime...

Despite being asked to clean up after themselves, about 3,000 students celebrating Memorial Day weekend left piles of debrisCollege students celebrating Memorial Day weekend by California’s Shasta Lake left behind hoard of trash, according to US Forest Service officials.Last weekend, approximately 3,000 students from the University of California, Davis...

Rescue teams had worked around the clock looking for a woman in her 30s who was unaccounted for after the blast in WhalanGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastRescuers have found the body of a woman in the rubble of a townhouse in Sydney’s west that collapsed after an explosion on Saturday.NSW police and fire and rescue...

Letter signatories from Steve Coogan to Paloma Faith urge Keir Starmer to ‘take stand’ for human rights and international lawActors 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,...

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...