Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Britain

Covid inquiry chair warns: ‘We must prepare for another pandemic’, as first public hearings set for Spring 2023

The chair of the Covid-19 public inquiry said Britain must prepare for another pandemic as she promised a “rigorous and fair” investigation into whether lives could have been saved.

Evening Standard

Conservative leadership latest: Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak clash as real race begins

Truss pledges action on cost of living while Sunak vows to govern like Margaret Thatcher

Evening Standard

UK's handling of migrants arriving by boat is unacceptable - official report

Britain's handling of migrants who arrive by small boats from Northern France has been unacceptable, ineffective and inefficient, an independent inspection published on Thursday said.

Reuters

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Liz Truss vows to ‘bulldoze through’ policies needed to save Britain from recession

The Foreign Secretary denied her proposed tax cuts of around £30 billion would worsen the cost-of-living crisis by fuelling inflation

Evening Standard

We are still sleepwalking headlong into disasters that are all too visible

When to start worrying that something catastrophic is on the horizon? Most of us tend to start at some point after it has already happened. We buy insurance against a particular disaster only after we have experienced it (and then cancel it a few years later). We fail to evacuate…

Evening Standard

WHO again considers declaring monkeypox a global emergency

The World Health Organization is convening its emergency committee to consider for the second time within weeks whether the expanding outbreak of monkeypox should be declared a global crisis

The Independent UK

2 contenders battle for Conservative votes in UK leader race

The two candidates to become Britain’s next prime minister have begun a head-to-head battle for the votes of Conservative Party members who will choose the country’s new leader

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

This summer’s strikes are already working – unions, set your sights even higher

With spiralling inflation and a tight labour market, workers’ power is on a high. But that doesn’t guarantee success, writes labour correspondent Polly Smythe

The Guardian - UK

47% of us say we've never seen a hedgehog

A new report highlights the native species many of us have never spotted

Wales Online

What was Britain’s notorious heatwave of 1976 like?

The hottest day of the year proved to be 3 July, when the mercury hit an alarming 35.9C in Cheltenham

The Independent UK

How UK can prepare for hotter future as heatwaves predicted to cause more deaths

University of Reading’s Prof Hannah Cloke says we need to start thinking about heatwaves 'very differently'. Hot temperatures this week reminded us of how poorly Britain is prepared to cope

Daily Mirror

Medal hope Max Burgin pulls out of World Athletics Championships 800m heat with calf injury

Britain’s hopes of continuing its medal rush in the middle-distance races at the World Athletics Championships suffered a massive blow when Max Burgin pulled out of his 800metre heat with a calf injury.

Evening Standard

MPs and ordinary voters no longer have a say in who becomes Britain's next PM. Here's what happens next

Only a small section of the British public will decide who gets to lead the country following Boris Johnson's resignation. So who are they and who will they vote for?

ABC News

Birmingham Commonwealth Games athletes add UK heatwave to their list of challenges

The record temperatures in Britain have had mixed results on Australia's Commonwealth Games hopefuls, with the opening ceremony now just a week away.

ABC News

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Daily Mirror

Man's tattoo of late wife is only remaining picture of her after house went up in flames

Keith Gant's home in Ashmanhaugh, Norfolk, was engulfed by one of the many wildfires that raged across Britain on Tuesday, destroying all his pictures of his late wife

Daily Mirror

'All voters in Britain should choose our next Prime Minister, not just the Tory Party'

We the people should decide who is to be Prime Minister, not the less than 0.3% of the population who are in the tiny Tory Party. Britain needs a fresh direction and a new Government

Daily Mirror

Jake Wightman's dad tells all after sharing world gold medal joy with his son

Geoff Wightman had provided the soundtrack to his son’s races for as long as he could remember, but this was something new. Jake had just become Britain’s first male world 1500m champion since Steve Cram in 1983

The Conversation

Deconstructing the cult of Winston Churchill: racism, deification and nostalgia for empire

Only one prime minister is honoured with a statue on the grounds of the Australian National University. Despite the university’s name, it is not an Australian. Rather, the stern face of Britain’s war-time prime minister Winston Churchill greets students on the Canberra campus. Although the ANU was founded in 1946,…

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

Record heat across the United Kingdom is wreaking havoc on its rail networks — what is Australia doing differently?

The United Kingdom is experiencing a record-breaking heatwave and the rail infrastructure is not coping so well. Is Australia's any better?

Reuters

UK's Northern Ireland trade law clears parliament's lower house

Legislation allowing Britain to scrap some of the rules on post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland cleared the final stage of its passage through parliament's lower House of Commons on Wednesday and will move to the House of Lords.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Liz Truss, a Margaret Thatcher Fan at UK’s Diplomatic Helm

Fans of Liz Truss think she is the new Iron Lady. Britain’s foreign secretary is one of the two final contenders to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and prime minister. Some 180,000 party members will be asked to choose either Truss or former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak, with…

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the UK economy: what an almighty mess

An unprecedented number will spend this winter choosing between freezing and starving. Britain needs an active state to help

Asharq Al-Awsat

Rishi Sunak, Heir Apparent Who Ran Afoul of Boris Johnson

Rishi Sunak was seen as Boris Johnson’s natural heir, until he turned on the prime minister who put him in charge of Britain’s economy. The former Treasury chief, who quit earlier this month after questioning Johnson’s competence and ethics, is one of the two final contenders to replace Johnson as…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Sunak and Truss Will Face Runoff to Become UK’s Next Leader

Former finance minister Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss made the final two candidates on Wednesday to become Britain's next prime minister, kickstarting the last stage of the contest to replace Boris Johnson. Sunak has led in all rounds of the voting among Conservative lawmakers, but it is Truss,…

The Guardian - UK

UK must learn to live with extreme weather, says cabinet minister

Kit Malthouse, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, says ‘impacts of climate change are with us now’

1 … 707 708 709 710

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

World Health Organization

Australian National University

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.