Britain’s largest retailers are warning that food prices are being driven up by hot weather hitting harvest yields, as the latest UK heatwave pushes temperatures close to record levels.more
Kamil Majchrzak defeated Italian tennis player Matteo Berrettini 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 in the first round of the Wimbledon Grand Slam. The Pole advanced to the second round of this event for the first time in his career. The match lasted three hours and seven minutes.more
The royal train is going to be taken out of service by 2027, in a cost-saving measure announced by Buckingham Palace.
There have been dedicated trains for monarchs since Queen Victoria's reign, but as part of a "drive to ensure we deliver value for money" it's been decided to decommission the historic rolling stock.more
Three former senior staff at the hospital where nurse Lucy Letby murdered seven babies and attempted to kill seven others have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.more
Egyptians have begun tracking sharks in the Red Sea from space, Egypt Independent reported. Monitoring shark movements in real time will help understand the behavior of specific species, and could potentially reduce the risk of shark attacks.more
Local bus services in England have continued to decline despite attempts by successive governments to bolster investment in services, according to a National Audit Office (NAO) report.more
Cezary Kulesza, who has been the president of the Polish Football Association for four years, was elected yesterday for another term. He was the only candidate during the General Assembly of Reporting and Elections of PZPN Delegates in Warsaw.more
Members of the British rap punk duo Bob Vylan had their visas revoked by the United States and are under investigation by local police after leading a crowd to chant “death” to Israel’s military at a UK music festival this past weekend.more
A 92-year-old man has been found guilty of the rape and murder of a Bristol woman in a case that remained unsolved for nearly six decades.
Louisa Dunne, 75, was found strangled on her living room floor by a neighbour on Britannia Road in Easton, Bristol, on 28 June 1967.more
Without additional help from the West, Ukraine could find itself in a critical war situation with Russia in the autumn, Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator for the British daily Financial Times, warned yesterday.more
British border police have seized 2.4 tons of cocaine with a value of almost £100 million ($137 million) in one of the biggest drug busts in years.
The enormous haul was found under containers on a ship arriving into London Gateway port from Panama, the Home Office said.more
The surface temperature of the Mediterranean Sea was 26.01 degrees Celsius on Sunday, the highest in June, the meteorological office Meteo France reported yesterday, citing data from the Copernicus programme, the EU's Earth observation programme.more
Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz advanced to the second round of the Wimbledon Grand Slam. The second-seeded Spanish tennis player, who was also the best in London in 2023, defeated Italian Fabio Fognini 7-5, 6-7 (5-7), 7-5, 2-6, 6-1.more
The image of Marie Antoinette will be the subject of an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The exhibition "Marie Antoinette Style" will be available to view from September 20 to March 22, 2026.more
Entry-level jobs are in freefall as the rise of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT causes low-paying and graduate roles to disappear.
Recently released data shows that the number of entry-level roles being advertised has fallen by a third since the launch of OpenAI’s chatbot in November 2022. more
Former England captain Paul Ince has been charged with drink-driving after crashing into a central reservation, police said.
The ex-Manchester United and Liverpool midfielder was arrested after a black Range Rover crashed at 17:00 BST on Saturday on Chester High Road in Neston, Wirral.more
Britain's decision to allow the export of F-35 fighter jet components to Israel, despite accepting they could be used in breach of international humanitarian law in Gaza, was lawful, London's High Court ruled on Monday.more
The European Union has not gone as far as US President Donald Trump in toughening its approach to migration, but the change is big, wrote the American "New York Times".more
The prime minister has condemned UK punk duo Bob Vylan for urging "death" to Israeli troops in what he called "appalling hate speech".
Glastonbury Festival organisers have also said they were "appalled" after frontman rapper Bobby Vylan led chants of "free, free Palestine" and "death, death to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]".more
Dozens of British MPs from across the party spectrum have called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to adopt a visa solution for Gaza residents similar to the one granted to Ukrainians after the Russian invasion, Sky News reported today.more
Paris Saint-Germain defeated Inter Miami 4-0 in the 1/8 finals of the Club World Cup held in the United States. The American team's first team included Argentine Lionel Messi, who played for PSG in 2021-23.more
Canada should be the 51st state of the USA because it depends on us completely - said US President Donald Trump yesterday on Fox News. He noted that the USA has suspended trade talks with Canada because of the taxes it has introduced.more
A groceries delivery driver has described how he used a lorry to rescue a man from a burning building in Dublin.
Tomasz Zareba reversed his lorry up to the city centre building to allow a man who was trapped at a third-floor window to jump to safety onto the roof of the vehicle.more
Those living in flats or rented homes in the UK could soon plug in their own “balcony solar panels” to save on their energy bills under plans set out in the government’s solar power strategy.more
