“Reform have simply invented their own numbers..." say experts

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Exclusive: approximately 350-acre compound planned as base for multinational force, according to records reviewed by the Guardian

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Has the UK criminal justice system treated Palestine Action activists too harshly?

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The civil rights campaigner has died aged 84. Jackson was a protege of Martin Luther King Jr and ran twice for the Democratic presidential nomination. Rev Jesse Jackson, the civil rights campaigner and trailblazer in US politics, has died aged 84. Lucy Hough speaks to Carys Afoko

Convicted sex offender helped establish tech fund Hedosophia after Osborne offered to help clean up Epstein’s image

* Football club donation equal to prize money Ukraine pays gold medallists * Heraskevych barred from racing while wearing ‘helmet of memory’ The owner of Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk has donated more than $200,000 to skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych. The athlete was disqualified from the Milano Cortina Winter Games before competing over the use of a helmet depicting Ukrainian athletes killed in the war with Russia, the club said on Tuesday. The 27-year-old Heraskevych was disqualified last week when the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation jury ruled that imagery on the helmet — depicting athletes killed since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 — breached rules on athletes’ expression at the Games. Continue reading...

Government plans to protect species by increasing woodland and removing greys, but campaigners say it needs to go further

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Proposed cuts by DHSC and DfE came despite concerns about inactivity among children contributing to obesity