Police have seized “a number of knives” after a British army officer in uniform was stabbed near barracks in Kent. Witnesses described hearing screams as the man in his 40s was repeatedly stabbed near his home in Gillingham just before 6pm on Tuesday by a masked attacker who fled the scene on a moped. A…
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is facing growing pressure from his backbenchers to scrap the two-child benefit cap. But what is the policy? And why is it causing such a ruckus within Labour ranks? Politics live: Starmer ‘bludgeons’ opposition at PMQs over inheriting ‘crisis’ What is the policy? The two-child benefit cap was announced by…
Eluned Morgan hopes to ‘turn new page’ for Welsh Labour Eluned Morgan, the new Welsh Labour leader, has said her party owes an apology to the Welsh public following months of turmoil. “We have not made a good fist of things in the past few weeks,” said Ms Morgan, 57, who is set to be…
The new leader of Labour in Wales has described her pride at being on the brink of becoming her party’s first female head of state in the UK as she promised to heal divisions within the Welsh government. Eluned Morgan, who is a peer, admitted it was “odd” that a baroness had become leader of…
Amanda Abbington has suggested there are 50 hours of footage which her ex-Strictly partner Giovanni Pernice “doesn’t want anyone to see” as she reiterated accusations about him during their training. The Sherlock actress claimed the footage was from video cameras she alleges were installed after she raised concerns about the Italian professional dancer to producers…
The officer is seen to repeatedly kick the man, who is lying face down A police officer has been filmed kicking and stamping on the head of a man lying on the ground at Manchester Airport. The uniformed male officer is seen holding a Taser over the man, who is lying face down, before striking…
It’s the day before his first competitive game as Fenerbahce manager and Jose Mourinho has been accosted.He is heading away from his pre-match press conference for the Champions League second-round qualifier against Lugano of Switzerland when he’s stopped by a man named Kai, a technician with the local media. Kai presents him with a large…
New Superheavy Element Synthesis Points to Long-Sought ‘Island of Stability’ A novel way of making superheavy elements could soon add a new row to the periodic table, allowing scientists to explore uncharted atomic realms By Max Springer Jacklyn Gates, head of the Heavy Element Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, is leading an…
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm An anti-Israel faction, spearheaded by Turkey’s pro-Iran Hizbullah group and endorsed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s governing party, has made significant strides in advancing a bill that would permit the revocation of Turkish citizenship for dual Israeli nationals, the confiscation of their assets and their criminal prosecution. The move is feared to trigger…