Andy Burnham’s announcement of free personal care as part of a new National Care Service will only apply to those over 65, and not to working-age disabled people, No 10 has confirmed, sparking shoc…

Many cases involve criminals using other people’s identities to sell fake event tickets to friends and family The total amount stolen by criminals who hack into people’s emails and social media accounts and then pretend to be them has risen by more than 400% in a year, official UK data shows. In many cases, the scammers are hijacking people’s accounts in order to use their identity to sell fake event tickets – such as to sold-out gigs – to unsuspecting friends and family. Continue reading...

Guarantee will remain until 2030 but MPs will vote on changes during this parliament, government says

A growing number of people are opting out of these schemes due to cost-of-living pressures.

Deal would mark return of Canadian family to UK after it sold Selfridges department store for £4bn in 2022

Exclusive: Martha Dalton worked closely with Burnham’s team on byelection that secured his return to parliament

EU Copernicus report shows surface air temperatures from June to August were 2.5C above decadal average

The US president said the war will end ‘one way or another’

Lake Mead is at its lowest level since it was filled nearly 90 years ago, Lake Powell also at a historic low

With winter looming, Kyiv faces a cash crunch just as Russia ramps up its effort to crush its economy.

The NHS faces significant risk if regulations and safeguarding procedures are not put in place to control AI

Shoppers and vendors in Aspen surprised by unusual customer as it stretched to sample stall offerings Farmers’ market shoppers might not usually pay much attention to the local resident devouring fresh bread and pastries at one of the stalls with extra gusto – but some certainly did last weekend when they realized it was a hungry bear. Onlookers on Saturday reached for their phones to take photos and videos of the bear in downtown Aspen, Colorado, after it wandered through the stalls and got up on to its hind legs to dig into the baked goods. Continue reading...

The force is seeking charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies over the 2017 tower block fire.

A typical household faces an annual gas and electricity bill of £1,999 from January, based on a key forecast.

More than 25,000 people have been deported to 29 countries under ⁠the policy implemented last year, according to a tally by human rights groups * Sign up to the US Breaking News email For some context, it’s worth remembering that Smith had a two-volume report of his findings as a result of his criminal investigations – that resulted in two indictments against the president after his first term. The first focused on Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, while the second on the president’s retention of classified documents. However, in February, a Trump-appointed federal judge permanently barred the justice department from releasing the second volume of Smith’s report. Continue reading...

He's sleeping on the job. Again.

Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population

North ​Korea's foreign ministry ‌said in a ​statement ​published by state ⁠media ​KCNA that ​the United States' approval for ​South ​Korea's building its ‌first ⁠nuclear submarine is "a dangerous development" ​that ​added ⁠new instability ​to the ​political ⁠and military environment ⁠of ​the ​Asia-Pacific region.

Concerns about elderly Northern Ireland veterans are being used to protect the SAS from the Afghanistan inquiry