Porcine pals Patty and Betty were shot by butchers who said their GPS ‘screwed up’ when it pointed them to the wrong houseA family in Washington state says a mobile butcher mistakenly slaughtered their pet pigs recently after showing up to the wrong address.Security camera footage showed an unknown truck pulling up to the home of the family in question...

Israeli military drops leaflets ordering hundreds of thousands of people to leave the city. This blog is now closed.Israel orders central Rafah residents to evacuateIn case you missed it yesterday, the UN general assembly voted overwhelmingly to back the Palestinian bid for full UN membership.Israeli tanks have reached the Salahuddin Road which crosses...

Tory sources allege that Dover MP Natalie Elphicke crossed the floor because she was not given a post running housing policyTory defector Natalie Elphicke stormed out of the party and joined Labour because she was “bitter” about being denied a ministerial job in charge of housing policy, senior Conservative sources have told the Observer.It is understood...

Analysis reveals voters switching from the Tories in pro-Brexit seats could make a Starmer election victory easier to achieveVoters are switching from the Tories to Labour in the most pro-leave parts of the country in such numbers that Keir Starmer may need a far lower overall swing from the Conservatives to win a parliamentary majority than was previously...

Party accuses Cabinet minister David TC Davies of breaching rules by using Whitehall office to film X post attacking Senedd expansion plansA Tory cabinet minister has been accused of a blatant breach of the ministerial code after using his government office in Whitehall to film an anti-Labour video that he then posted on social media.Welsh secretary...

US supreme court justice gives one-hour talk at meeting of judges, attorneys and other court personnel of 11th circuit court of appealsClarence Thomas, the US supreme court justice, told attendees at a judicial conference Friday that he and his wife have faced “nastiness” and “lies” over the last several years and decried Washington DC as a “hideous...