State legislators in New Mexico have launched a truth commission to investigate past activity at a secluded desert ranch where financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein once entertained guests
An investigation found 87 flights linked to Jeffrey Epstein had arrived or departed from UK airports between the early 1990s and 2018
Jackson’s two presidential runs brought the civil rights movement into the heart of the Democratic party and opened doors for others to walk throughHe witnessed the assassination of at the Lorraine motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Forty years later, he joined the jubilant crowd in Chicago’s Grant Park to greet ’s election victory and had tears streaming down his face., who died on Tuesday at the age of 84, was hailed by Martin Luther King III and his wife Andrea King as “a living bridge between generations”. He was the most influential African American political voice between King and Obama. His two runs for the Democratic nomination created the imaginative space for a Black president. He was the architect of a “rainbow coalition” that shapes the Democratic party today.
Hamdan Ballal says violence on West Bank as bad as ever, nearly a year after his Oscar-winning film shocked the world The co-director of the Oscar-winning No Other Land has said his home and family have come under renewed attack, almost a year after the documentary on Israeli settler and army violence in the West Bank received .Hamdan Ballal said a group of settlers who had conducted a long-running campaign of harassment against Palestinian villagers came on Sunday to his home in Susya, in the Masafer Yatta area on the southern edge of the West Bank.
Reform UK leader snaps at reporters as he tries to maintain control over announcement of shadow cabinetMeet the Fockers. The shadow cabinet from hell. Rejects, losers and deadbeats. A freak show. A tribute act.Reform have often been called a one-man band. The Nigel Farage party. So to counter this narrative, Nige took over Church House in Westminster and turned it into a tacky gameshow set. A remake of The Weakest Link. All to parade his . The lucky men and women whose one job is to try not to fall out with one another in the next few years. No chance.
U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking to position himself as a peacemaker of the conflict unleashed when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, but previous rounds of talks mediated by the White House have yielded no breakthroughs
Labour prime minister criticises Nigel Farage’s party after a controversial doctor was allowed to spread false claims that Covid vaccines are linked to the cancers affecting the royal family at Reform conference
Kiano Vafaeian, a 26-year-old blind man with Type 1 diabetes, died in December under Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program.
WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Shocking images and reports dogs being killed ahead of the 2030 World Cup has drawn global scrutiny.
Australia's Destanee Aiava has announced her retirement from tennis at the age of 25 and claims she is turning her back on the game's "racist, misogynistic, homophobic and hostile" culture.
UN experts have called for a probe to determine if Consuelo Porras was involved in illegal adoptions in the 1980s.18 mins agoLatin America
As many as 15,800 local law enforcement officers have been deputized to enforce immigration law, report finds
A couple who stayed in Shenzhen discovered their intimate moments were filmed as spy-cam porn.
Palestinian prisoners alarmed by reported preparations in Israeli jails to carry out executions.
Mark Aitken, who worked in the sector for 16 years, said eight times out of 10 he disagreed with the integrated assessment toolGet our , or Aged care clinicians and carers say an algorithm-based assessment tool that determines federal home support funding packages is “cruel” and “inhumane”, stripping away clinical expertise and leaving elderly people with inadequate support.The , introduced in November, is used across aged care to determine eligibility and classification for services, including residential care.
A Syrian government official told Sky News al Hol camp in northeastern Syria is now largely emptied, acknowledging that escapes continued after the state took control of the site.
The messages of support to a friend in need were touching, their senders - the leaders of America's most storied universities and arts institutions If only the recipient hadn't been Jeffrey Epstein
Labour MP Liam Byrne, chairman of the cross-party Business and Trade Committee, today said 'nothing is off the table' as the former Duke of York faces fresh allegations.
The Trump administration has bought warehouses across the US that could hold thousands. But resistance is growingThere is a vast building, reportedly the size of seven football fields, in , a suburb of Phoenix; ICE bought it for $70m. Another building, along the southern border in San Antonio, Texas, was valued at $37m; it’s 640,000 sq ft. In January, ICE bought a warehouse in , Pennsylvania, not far outside of Philadelphia, for $87.4m. In , outside Hagerstown, the cost of a facility on a nearly 54-acre plot was $102m.These are massive, industrial spaces, built for holding goods to be shipped elsewhere. Warehouses are drafty and difficult to heat, hard-floored and high-ceilinged, not meant for human habitation. But the Trump administration is aiming to convert them into vast detention camps for immigrants. Some of the buildings could house as many as at a time. The rapid slew of new warehouse purchases by deportation agencies brings to mind the words of the ICE director, , who told a conference last year that he wanted the effort to operate “like Amazon Prime, for human beings”.
Israeli military incursions and settler attacks forced more than 37,000 Palestinians to leave their homes in 2025.
The school is now punishing two people, who become the latest members of an elite institution to suffer the consequences of association with the billionaire pedophile.
Exclusive: Expert analysis of images from one hospital suggests severe trauma to the face, chest and genitals was caused by metal birdshot and high-calibre bulletsAcross the planes of Anahita’s* face, white dots shine like a constellation. Some gleam from inside the sockets of her eyes, others are scattered over the young woman’s chin, forehead, cheekbones. A few float over the dark expanse of her brain.Each dot represents a metal sphere, about 2-5mm in size, fired from the barrel of a shotgun and revealed by the X-ray camera for a CT scan. Shot from a distance, the projectiles, known as “birdshot”, spray widely, losing some of their momentum. At close range, they can , blast through the soft tissue of the face, and easily pierce the eyeball’s delicate globe. Anahita, who is in her early 20s, has lost at least one eye, possibly both.
Nina Keita, whose uncle Alassane Ouattara has led the West African nation since 2010, began corresponding with Epstein in 2011.
Drone-fired missiles hit when market packed with people, 'exacerbating the humanitarian tragedy', rights group says.
Connected and wealthy, from titans of industry to Hollywood royalty, billionaire philanthropists to political powerhouses, they led seemingly gilded lives. But the Epstein files have threatened it all.
At a press conference for Tyson’s latest comeback, the Briton’s father John stormed around the venue, shouting at pundit Froch
There are two books in Ben Proud's living room. One is titled Principles and the other is The Buddha Teachings. Together they lurk as silent witnesses as a sporting pariah discusses his chosen path.
ISLAMABAD: Opposition alliance Tehreek Tahafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP), as well as incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan’s sisters, rejected on Tuesday an account detailed by Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi regarding the former prime minister’s medical examination.
Israel accused of denying doctors re-entry into territory after they gave first-hand testimony on conflictMedics in the UK and US believe they have been denied re-entry to Gaza after speaking out on the conflict.Following reports of rising refusal rates, medical workers and organisationswho have provided humanitarian aid in Gaza have described what they see as arbitrary denials.
"Get the files out. They are slow-walking it," the former US secretary of state says. The White House says it has done "more for the victims than Democrats ever did".8 hrs agoUS & Canada
A magistrate has lifted a suppression order on the identity of a man accused of throwing a homemade bomb into an Invasion Day rally crowd in a terror act.
Speaking to the Daily, royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams said: 'It may fall to William to make a decision on the future of Beatrice and Eugenie.'
9 Feb 2026Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado says political leader Juan Pablo Guanipa was taken by force in Caracas. 9 Feb 2026
The BBC visits the Iranian capital for the first time since authorities used unprecedented force to put down protests last month.
He can sack who he wants to protect himself, but all roads currently lead back to the prime ministerIn late 2023, Labour Together was ascendant. Under Keir Starmer, the group’s anointed torchbearer, Labour had a double-digit lead in the polls. Morgan McSweeney, the man who built Labour Together, was preparing Starmer for government with great hopes of . Now McSweeney is out of a job, Labour Together is and Starmer faces urgent questions about what he knew and when.Stories began appearing about Labour Together’s funding around November 2023. The most damaging, in a detailed report by Gabriel Pogrund and Harry Yorke, showed how, between 2017 and 2020, McSweeney had in political donations to the organisation. The group attributed this to administrative error.Peter Geoghegan runs the investigative website Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our section, please .
Marco Rubio arrived at the Munich security conference with a disturbing message for European governments: empire is greatFresh from toppling the president of and taking control of the world’s largest oil reserves, the ’s top diplomat arrived at the Munich security conference on Saturday with a rather new and very disturbing message for European governments.Empire is great. Empire is back. Empire is American.Mehdi Hasan is the editor-in-chief and CEO of
Ukraine has been a terrifying testing ground of ultra-modern warfare with prolific use of bomb dropping drones and now this unmanned ground vehicle has come as the latest development.
What started out as a pair of plucky 'punks' brewing beer to take on the big guns has evolved into a corporate behemoth set to cost its fans millions in lost investments.
Expressions of regret have not translated into enabling return or providing reparations.
Retail mogul’s name was this week unredacted from trove of files – how did he and his model town fuel Epstein’s rise?Les Wexner’s alleged note to Jeffrey Epstein marking his 50th birthday in 2003 included a hand-drawing of a woman’s breasts.And yet today, the billionaire Wexner’s and center across Ohio’s most respected institution – the Ohio State University.
Acolytes of the far-right activist urged employers to fire his critics. Now those who were terminated are suing and claiming their right to free speechJulie Strebe, a 55-year-old sheriff’s deputy in the small Bible belt town of Salem, Missouri, was on a date with her husband at a Buffalo Wild Wings when her husband slid his phone across the table. On Facebook, people were demanding Strebe’s immediate termination, calling her a “wacko” with “extreme mental health issues”.It was the afternoon of 13 September 2025, just a few days after Charlie Kirk had been killed by a sniper’s bullet on a college campus. Shortly after his assassination, Strebe had posted on her personal Facebook page: “Empathy is not owed to oppressors.” In comments underneath, she did not mince words. She called Kirk a racist, a sexist, an antisemite and the kind of person who wants to see gay people, like her own son, stoned to death. “I don’t feel bad,” she says, months later, speaking from her home. “I refuse to feel bad for this man, and the hateful things he stood for.”
Trump says everyday Americans deserve a chance to buy higher-risk ‘alternative’ investments. Critics say this could lead to big losses for small investorsOn a summer day in 2018, Cathy Shubert, then 58, hopped in her Toyota Rav 4 and drove to the Jacksonville, Florida, office of Mario Payne, an investment adviser at the financial services firm Raymond James. She had a lot on her mind. She was not happy with her job at a local bank branch and wanted to see if Payne thought she had saved enough to retire.“He said what I was retiring with would carry me and everything would be wonderful,” she remembered. “I went home and told my husband, ‘Oh my God, I want you to go meet him.’”
Jordan warns of war as Israel's 'silent transfer' in the occupied West Bank becomes an operational reality.
The United States is planning to deploy more high-tech missile systems in the Philippines to help deter aggression in the South China Sea, where the treaty allies again condemned China’s “illegal, coercive, aggressive, and deceptive activities.”
His novel was praised for giving a voice to the victims of Algeria’s brutal civil war. But one woman has accused Kamel Daoud of having stolen her story – and the ensuing legal battle has become about much more than literary ethicsEvery November, leading figures of French literature gather in the upstairs room of an old-fashioned Paris restaurant and decide on the best novel of the year. The ceremony is staid, traditional, down to the restaurant’s menu, full of classic dishes such as vol-au-vents and foie gras on toast. In pictures of the judging ceremony, the judges wear dark suits; each has four glasses of wine at hand.The winner of the Goncourt, as the prize is called, is likely to enter the pantheon of world literature, joining a lineage of writers that includes Marcel Proust and Simone de Beauvoir. The prize is also a financial boon for authors. As the biggest award in French literature, the Goncourt means a prime spot in storefronts, foreign rights, prestige. By one estimate, winning the Goncourt means nearly €1m of sales in the weeks that follow.
Kathleen Klein, 53, who went by 'prophetess,' was added to a lawsuit on Wednesday, accusing her and two alleged co-conspirators of running call centers to solicit donations for their church.
Let us imagine for a moment the police ignore institutional reluctance and embark on a wide-ranging investigation into the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor affair.
Exclusive: ICE more than tripled the amount of data stored in Microsoft’s cloud at the same time that its arsenal of surveillance technology balloonedImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deepened its reliance on Microsoft’s cloud technology last year as the agency ramped up arrest and deportation operations, leaked documents reveal.ICE more than tripled the amount of data it stored in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform in the six months leading up to January 2026, a period in which the agency’s budget swelled and its workforce rapidly expanded, according to the files.
Eileen Guo and Alysa Liu have been thrust into a debate that goes far beyond sports.
Investigation to focus on e-commerce platform's alleged sale of illicit goods and 'addictive design'.